Thursday, June 28, 2012

How we built a Customisable Cloud Hadoop using MapR and Brooklyn on EC2


In our recent blog post Customisable Cloud Hadoop: Automating MapR on EC2 using Brooklyn we demonstrated using Brooklyn and MapR to create a powerful and flexible Cloud Hadoop Cluster.
In this post we reflect on how we went about writing it, including some of the issues encountered. This post will be particularly useful if you are working through the source code.


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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

A demo of Stackato & brooklyn

Brooklyn & Stackato demo

Friday, June 15, 2012

Cloudsoft Expands its Advisory Board with the Appointment of Major General David Shaw CBE


Former Director of Army Media and Communications to Drill Cloud Computing Start-up in Institutional and Government Markets

EDINBURGH, June 14, 2012 – Cloudsoft Corporation, a software innovator specialising in multi-cloud application management, today announced they have appointed Major General David Shaw CBE to their strategic advisory board. Shaw joins the board to help shape Cloudsoft‘s approach to government and institutional markets, and to provide guidance in media and communication.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

How Enterprises Can Bend the Programmer Learning Curve

http://sandhill.com/article/how-enterprises-can-bend-the-programmer-learning-curve/