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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

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By Bob Gourley Note: we have been tracking Cloudant in our special reporting on Analytical Tools , Big Data Capabilities , and Cloud Computing. – 24 Feb 2014: IBM (NYSE: IBM ) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Boston, MA-based Cloudant, Inc., – bg. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Why F5 and Tempered Networks founder Jeff Hussey left retirement and ‘bought’ himself a job

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His education and work background were largely in finance, so he read volumes of tech literature and product manuals, ultimately building a load-balancer that did the job. In 2014 , he became CEO and co-founder of Tempered. “I Favorite apps, cloud services and software tools: Photoshop, ProTools, Salesforce and Firefox.

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Liveblog: Introduction to Managed Database Services on AWS

Scott Lowe

In 2010, FanDuel migrated to a cloud provider (not AWS); issues experienced there forced FanDuel to migrate to AWS in 2011. FanDuel started to use Puppet to help with configuration management, and they started evaluating the use of Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs) and Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) to help with scaling.

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Technology Short Take #58

Scott Lowe

See here for some of my thoughts on Intel’s RSA following IDF 2014.) Cloud Computing/Cloud Management. Rackspace and VMware have a pair of articles discussing their interoperable OpenStack cloud architecture ( here’s the post from Rackspace , and here’s the post from VMware ). Virtualization. Good write-up.

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The O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference Call for Participation

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Call closes 11:59pm 12/02/2014 EST. The O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference is a new event designed to provide the necessary professional training that software architects and aspiring software architects need to succeed. Caching, load balancing, optimization. Microservices, pros and cons. Distributed systems.

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IDF 2014: Architecting for SDI, a Microserver Perspective

Scott Lowe

Workloads are scheduled across these server/linecards using Valiant Load Balancing (VLB). Of course, there are issues with packet-level load balancing and flow-level load balancing, so tradeoffs must be made one way or another. IDF 2014: Architecting for SDI, a Microserver Perspective.

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Kubernetes on OpenStack: The Technical Details

Scott Lowe

Next, Lees shows another Kubernetes diagram, but this time the diagram illustrates the “connection points” between Kubernetes and the underlying cloud (OpenStack, in this particular case). These connection points are provided by the OpenStack cloud provider in Kubernetes (enabled via the --cloud-provider and --cloud-config flags).