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BotchagalupeMarks for September 13th – 08:17
By John | September 14, 2009
These are my links for September 13th from 08:17 to 09:47:
- CohesiveFT Elastic Server: From P2V to Z2V – hdknr’s posterous – Beginning about 4 years ago early adopters began the practice of P2V or Physical-to-Virtual. This involves running an agent that converts the hard drives of a physical server into virtual hard drives incorporated into a virtual server. Each of the "core" virtualization providers (VMware, XenSource, Parallels, etc.) provide this capability for their brand of virtualization. Additionally, some Open Source utilities like Ultimate-P2V, and commercial products from LeoStream and PlateSpin (just acquired by Novell), have the ability to output from a physical server to multiple virtualization formats.
- What’s the New York Times Doing with Hadoop? – Matthew’s posterous – Interesting yet very brief interview on what the New York Times is doing with Hadoop. It's always fascinating to me to read about the tools and approaches people use with the level of scalability most of us don't have to worry about. Also interesting to me is the MapReduce functionality in Hadoop since it's the same idea used by CouchDB views, and I'm absolutely loving the bit of work I've been doing with CouchDB.
- DjangoCon 2009 at Ted Leung on the Air – Are there changes that could be made to Django to make it easier to deploy,
or to work better with tools like Puppet, Chef, Fabric, etc? Monitoring –
Typically frameworks provide very little monitoring information. …
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