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Hyperic Clued on Cloud Monitoring

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Randy Bias

I was very impressed to learn yesterday that Hyperic has implemented jcollectd, a native Java implementation of collectd and the collectd protocol. They have released jcollectd as open sourced under the GPL. This means you can now easily instrument your … Continue reading →

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Pre-release CLI Utility for GoGrid

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Randy Bias

Looking for volunteers to help evaluate & give feedback on pre-release GoGrid CLI tool that talks to the GoGrid API. This is BETA code, but stable & functional. Send an e-mail to randyb {#} gogrid.com. I’ll send you instructions and … Continue reading →

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Followup on Vertebra Posting

Posted on December 19, 2008 by Randy Bias

Earlier I posted asking What Happened to Vertebra?, the sysadmin cloud management tool that EngineYard had promised for ‘end of summer’. Pleased to see that the EY folks soft released an early BETA of the code today. You can see … Continue reading →

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What Happened to Vertebra?

Posted on November 30, 2008 by Randy Bias

Earlier this year during the 2008 Velocity Conference EngineYard made some fairly big waves (Google search) pre-announcing their open source cloud management tool, Vertebra. This was of particular interest to me because of the CloudScale Project. We spent a considerable … Continue reading →

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More ZFS on EC2

Posted on October 11, 2008 by Randy Bias

Looks like Don MacAskill discovered the joys of MySQL on ZFS running on OpenSolaris. This is great stuff. When we release Scaleen later this year as part of the CloudScale Project, it’s going to make managing ZFS+EBS on EC2 trivial … Continue reading →

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CloudScale Updates & More

Posted on October 6, 2008 by Randy Bias

It’s been a while since my last post and a lot has happened for both neoTactics and CloudScale. I’m quite excited to make several announcements about the CloudScale Project here. Although it’s not the announcement I had hoped to make, … Continue reading →

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