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CloudMQ, new addition to on demand message queue service providers list

The latest addition to the list of on demand message queuing service providers is CloudMQ. See my earlier coverage on the list of on demand message queue providers here. The article also answers the question: why enterprises may choose on demand message queuing integration mechanisms.
CloudMQ seems to have been built leveraging AMQP with [...]

VMware, Citrix want to be enterprise cloud enablers

VMware and Citrix announced their cloud initiatives at VMWorld last week. Up until then, the choice to enable an enterprise’s infrastructure as a service was limited to using products from any of these firms: 3Tera, Elastra, and Enomalism (open source).
From an architectural perspective, Citrix and VMware cloud initiatives broadly fall into the following categories:
1.  Cloud [...]

Gnip, Online Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)

Background
Message Queuing (MQ) middleware technology makes integration of services simple. For example MQ allows services to communicate in a flexible way by abstracting the connection details of the target service, data format and the underlying integration protocol. MQ allows the developers to build services focusing on the business logic rather than the integration [...]

To scale out or not using Gigaspaces

Gigaspaces is one of the leading vendors,  providing solutions to overcome the limitations of application performance/scaling due to bottlenecks at the database level or due to the application architecture following a tier based approach.
Gigaspaces received a series C funding of $ 5 million, lead by BRM capital, raising the total to $13 million. [...]