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OpenStack was first announced three years ago at the OSCON conference in Portland. I remember the first time I heard about the announcement and how it immediately caught my attention. Ever since that day, I have become a strong advocate of the technology. Looking back, I thought that it would… Read More

Devstack is # A great option to install and run an OpenStack cloud on your laptop or inside a VM on a cloud. # Ideal for potential users who want to see what the Dashboard looks like from an admin or user perspective, and OpenStack contributors who wish to… Read More

Peter Chadwick Senior Product Manager – Cloud Infrastructure at SUSE wrote an interesting article arguing  Why OpenStack Will Rule the Enterprise. Chadwick refers to three main points in his arguments: Variety – OpenStack is the only cloud platform that supports every major hypervisor. Familiarity – OpenStack follows an… Read More

Big Data systems by their very nature tend to be…Big.Big in the amount of data, in the number and size of infrastructure behind it, etc. Cloud based infrastructure can be a good fit as a cost effective infrastructure for running those Big Data systems. While this may sound obvious, many… Read More

This Monday we’re launching the “(newwindow)Cloudify online recipe catalog”:/cloudifyRecipeCatalog.html and the Cloudify Player, an embeddable, simple to use JavaScript widget that allows users to launch any Cloudify recipe on the cloud from within any web page, with a single click. The idea behind it is simple: visit a web page,… Read More

In my previous post I outlined the main lessons learned from the Amazon Cloud Marketplace and suggested an alternative approach for building an open marketplace. In this post I’ll refer to a specific implementation of that alternative approach through a new Cloudify Service called the Cloudify Player. Introduction to… Read More

The Promise of a Cloud Application Marketplace The cloud has clearly emerged as the new world. Today, we find ourselves in an era of land-grabbing in which everyone wants the bigger piece of this new world. Amazon has the advantage of being the first to grab. Others would like… Read More

Preface I am still amazed from time to time to find that even very intelligent people who know a lot about software development, but nothing about cloud computing, don’t seem to know this truth about the cloud “world”: when a machine (VM) goes down, its data is gone forever,… Read More

WebSphere and XAP are sometimes considered competing products, when in reality, XAP can be fairly complementary to WebSphere in various areas. In this post I will share a specific customer use case which required the integration between the two products. I’ll start with the motivation and end with the… Read More

The REST API URL In some cases when you develop a recipe, you may need access to the Cloudify management server/s. h4(impt). In a production environment, we recommend that you use two management servers. This access may be required for invoking REST API calls either on the management… Read More

Hey Cloudifiers, I’m happy to announce Cloudify 2.5, our latest and greatest Cloudify release. 2.5 offers important new capabilities and user experience improvements. In this post I’d like to review three main items: h2. Storage, as In Block Cloudify is designed from the ground up with… Read More

This month Amazon announced AWS OpsWorks, which is the result of their acquisition of Peritor and the embedding of its Scalarium platform within AWS. OpsWorks is a new framework for simplifying the deployment of applications on the cloud. Given that Amazon already has a few frameworks automating application deployment,… Read More