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By John | August 14, 2009
These are my links for August 13th from 19:22 to 22:05:
- Virtualization’s Next Big Leap « ARCHIMEDIUS – The VMotion promise today, however, is still restrained by network shortcomings. Those shortcomings erode the case for virtualization and cloud by requiring excessive manual labor, scripting and configuration in the network itself, the core enabler (ironically) of enterprise supply chain automation.
- People Over Process » vSping – VMWare Buys SpringSource – Quick Analysis – VMWare announced its intent to by SpringSource today for a combined amount of $420M (”$362 million in cash and equity plus the assumption of approximately $58 million of unvested stock and options,” to quote the press release).
- Blog Joyent | New Joyent MySQL Solution is 3X Faster than Amazon EC2 – We worked directly with the team at MySQL to develop a MySQL solution that could get you up and running as fast as possible, with all the best practices for security and performance built right in. The Joyent Virtual Appliance for MySQL has only MySQL pre-installed. For security reasons, it does not include a web server and nothing is listening on port 80. While you can ssh in directly, we recommend that you use a standard Joyent Accelerator as a bastion host and access MySQL over the private IP address.
- Doug Cutting Moving On (Hadoop and Distributed Computing at Yahoo!) – Today Doug Cutting announced that he is leaving Yahoo! to continue working on Apache Hadoop at Cloudera. We are sorry to see him leave, but expect him to continue working to make Hadoop great for our internal users and the larger Hadoop community. It has been a pleasure to work with Doug over the last few years. He has been instrumental in bringing Yahoo! to the Apache Hadoop community. We have learned a lot about working with the open source community from him.
- Opscode Blog: Why we chose the Apache License – From time to time, we get asked why new contributors to any Opscode project have to sign a Contributor License Agreement (or a Corporate Contributor License Agreement.) While there is an explanation on the Opscode Wiki, we've never gone into deep detail on how we made the choice of the Apache License, nor why we follow the Apache Foundation's practice of requiring contributors to sign Contributor License Agreements (CLAs) (and Corporations to sign Corporate CLAs). So if you geek out about open source licensing, and the intersection between business requirements and license choices, read on.
- Amazon Web Services Blog: Pig Latin – High Level Data Processing with Elastic MapReduce – A product of the Apache Software Foundation, Pig Latin is a SQL-like data transformation language. You can use Pig Latin to run complex processes on large-scale compute clusters without having to spend time learning the MapReduce paradigm. Pig Latin programs are built around efficient high-level data types such as bags, tuples, maps, and fields and operations like LOAD, FOREACH, and FILTER.
- VMware plus SpringSource, more hype than substance, today « rand($thoughts); – Let me start with a few disclaimers. By virtue of working in the IBM WebSphere Application Server team, I compete with SpringSource. I know, and like, several of the key people at SpringSource. I’m happy that their hard work paid of with such a large exit. While I compete with SpringSource, I’m excited that this acquisition will raise the bar for vendors that I care about, and ultimately, customers will benefit the most.
- Ignition Alley Coworking to Open in ATL September 1st! — TechDrawl – Ignition Alley is having a ’soft opening’ of its new coworking space September 1, 2009 at 696 Somerset Terrace, Atlanta, GA 30306. The ‘hard’ opening will probably be in the weeks following. That depends a lot on ordering furnishings and decorating.
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