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Archive for April, 2009

Amazon adds several enhancements to its Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Last week when the world was busy with the release of Java support to Google App Engine, Amazon added several enhancements to its Simple Queue Service (SQS) which are mentioned below:
1. Added ability to share queues, including support for anonymous access.

2. Added Policy as a value for the Attribute.
3. Changed the global reference in the [...]

Cast Iron with Google’s SDC attempts to simplify integration with Google Apps

Cast Iron Systems provides integration services between enterprises and various on demand services. The integration process offered by Cast Iron uses pre configured templates for integrating with on demand services resulting in benefits such as lower costs of integration, faster time to market and simple management among others.
Cast Iron provides straight out of box support [...]

What you cannot do using Java in Google App Engine

( Java )

1. Cannot write to the filesystem. Must use Data Store for persistence.

2. Cannot open a socket or access another host directly.

3. Cannot spawn a sub-process or thread.

4. Cannot make other kinds of system calls.

5. Cannot create a new java.lang.ThreadGroup nor a new java.lang.Thread. However, operations against the current thread, such as Thread.currentThread().dumpStack() is allowed.

6. The [...]

Overview of Java support in Google App Engine

Google App Engine now supports Java. This posting provides a high level overview of Google App Engine for Java.

1.    What is Google App Engine?

Google App Engine is offered as a Platform as a Service (PaaS) where one can develop applications and run it in Google’s infrastructure. The value proposition is the easy implementation, no servers [...]

Brief Overview of HP Cloud Assure services

HP Cloud Assure is offered as a turnkey solution providing three services:
·         Cloud Security provides end to end solution for performing security risk assessments to detect and correct security issues.
·         Cloud Performance offers application testing service and also lets business the experience perceived by the users. (via synthetic monitoring)
·         Cloud Availability (CA) provides visibility into [...]

Sun Microsystems rejects IBM’s acquisition offer

( Java )

Wall Street Journal reports “Sun’s board rejected a formal acquisition offer by IBM on Saturday, sending a notice terminating Sun’s agreement to negotiate exclusively with IBM. IBM on Sunday withdrew its offer to buy Sun, said a person informed about the situation.”

Keynote, a cloud performance management solution is on fire

( Java )

Forrester rates Keynote Systems is on fire. The complete report is available here. See my write up on Keynote vs. SOASTA here.