Amazon announced three new features today that are mentioned below:
1. Elastic Load Balancing: Serves as a load balancer for distributing incoming traffic across EC2 instances and additionally increases the capacity (i.e. adds new instances) in response to incoming traffic. The load balancing of incoming traffic is done across EC2 instances in a single availability zone [...]
Integration as a Service provider Hubspan partnered with IBM to offer integration platform as a service called Webspan. “WebSpan provides any-to-any integration, which means it works with all systems, protocols, content and applications, whether legacy, on-premise or SaaS-based. WebSpan enables companies to create affordable business community networks and to automate business processes.”
Softlayer, a Texas based on demand data center provider, announced today a line of cloud services called CloudLayer. CloudLayer comprises of four service offerings as described below:
CloudLayer Computing
An on demand compute environment similar to Amazon EC2. The CloudLayer computing is available with a minimum of a 2.0 GHz processor and offers a choice of operating [...]
SpringSource, maker of the popular Spring framework, acquired Hyperic today. With this acquisition SpringSource completes the “Manage” phase in a typical application life cycle.
The Build Phase
SpringSource offers Spring framework that is widely used in building enterprise Java/JEE applications.
The Run Phase
SpringSource also contributes most of the bug fixes to Apache Tomcat meaning, it has a major [...]