http://blog.3tera.com In the trenches of Cloud and Utility Computing Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:42:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As we're closing down on the 3.0 beta, I found this blog post about the white iPhone. When do you think is the right time to ship a product? Are the criteria different for consumer products and cloud products (and how)? http://blog.3tera.com/computing/ship-when-perfect-enough/ Staying late... browsing and learning... found a gem. Since one of AppLogic's traditional audiences is DevOps, some frequently ask us "what is DevOps". While the following doesn't really provide a definition, it tells us how to do it (and for a definition, there's always Wikipedia) In summary, here's how Flickr does it: Automated ... http://blog.3tera.com/computing/how-to-devops-the-flickr-experience/ CA 3Tera® AppLogic® 2.9 is the first major new release of AppLogic as part of CA Technologies. With the new ownership of the product, there are the expected significant improvements for enterprise customers and the service providers catering to them. CA 3Tera AppLogic 2.9 also continues to provide the innovative ... http://blog.3tera.com/computing/ca-3tera-applogic-29-ga-release-to-introduce-optimized-self-healing-highly-available-cloud-with-a-globally-federated-api/ Andi Mann at CIO.com posted a great article on challenges in adoption of virtualization and proposed a new term - VM stall. It refers to the apparent limit in adoption of virtualization within companies -- those who start tend to virtualize the low hanging fruit and virtualization efforts seem to ... http://blog.3tera.com/computing/vm-stall-why-it-happens-and-how-to-overcome-it/ We started 3Tera to radically ease the way IT deploys, maintains and scales – MANAGES - applications. Our AppLogic® cloud computing platform provides the foundation of our partners' orchestration of cloud services for public and private clouds around the world. Today, we’re taking the next step in moving toward making ... http://blog.3tera.com/computing/mainstream-it-buys-into-cloud-computing-ca-to-acquire-3tera-a-message-from-barry-x-lynn-ceo-3tera/ Almost from the moment we brought out AppLogic a little over three years ago it was clear that the market for cloud computing would be global. More than half of all registrations have been international, and they come from all over the world; Japan, Australia, England, Spain, UAE, Nigeria, South ... http://blog.3tera.com/computing/204/ We've crossed a very significant chasm. What chasm is that?  You may ask. Enterprises?  Mainstream IT?  Government?  Telcos? Yes, all of those are gaining traction by the second, but we have crossed one that is far more  significant. We received an email last week that asked, "Could you please tell me about cloud ... http://blog.3tera.com/computing/cloud-awareness-are-you-smarter-than-a-fifth-grader/ I don’t know why, but I am still surprised when I hear the following question. What’s the difference between virtualization and Cloud? To me, it’s like asking the question – What’s the difference between a hammer and carpentry? The latter is a comprehensive craft. The former is one of many ... http://blog.3tera.com/computing/the-future-of-virtualization-or-how-i-stopped-worrying-how-it-relates-to-cloud-computing-in-2010/ We'll be completing the Disaster Recovery Suite of appliance with the release of NASR early next month, included in the production release of 2.7. NASR offers the replication of file storage between two instances of NASR, and they can be in the same app, in different VPDCs or even in ... http://blog.3tera.com/computing/nas-replication-appliance-coming-in-27-production-release/ Once in a while, as you go about the routines of a normal workday, a number jumps out of the stream of consciousness and catches your attention. That's exactly what happened today while one of our support engineers was working with a client on a new application. When checking system status he suddenly realized ... http://blog.3tera.com/computing/673-days-17-hours-53-minutes-and-counting/