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SeaMicro: Atom and the Ants | CloudBzz
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The Cloud Blog of John Treadway. SeaMicro: Atom and the Ants. How the Meek Shall Inherit The Data Center, Change The Way We Build and Deploy Applications, And Kill the Public Cloud Virtualization Market. The tiny ant. Capable of lifting up to 50 times its body weight. So, let’s take a look at this in more detail to see if you agree. This week I had the great pleasure to spend an hour with Andrew Feldman, CEO and founder of SeaMicro, Inc. SeaMicro: 512 Cores, 1TB RAM, 10 RU. Is another company in this spa...
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The Cloud Blog of John Treadway. IaaS Cloud Litmus Test – The 5 Minute VM. I will make this simple. There is only one question you need to ask yourself or your IT department to determine if what you have is really an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud. Can I get a VM in 5-10 minutes? Perhaps a little bit more detailed? If you can answer yes, congratulations – it’s very likely a cloud. If you cannot answer yes it is NOT cloud IaaS. There is no wriggle room here. Tie this to your business drivers for cloud.
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Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ | TechCrusher
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Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’. July 7, 2011. According to database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a huge, complex MySQL implementation equivalent to a fate worse than death, and the only way out is bite the bullet and rewrite everything. Not that it’s necessarily Facebook’s fault, though. Stonebraker says the social network’s predicament is all too common among web startups that start small and grow to epic proportions. The oft-quoted statistic from 2008. The widel...