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"Many modern web sites need fast access to an amount of information so large that it cannot be efficiently stored on a single computer," Nick Kallen wrote on Twitter's blog . A good way to deal with this problem is to "shard" that information; that is, store it across multiple computers instead of on just one." As an alternative to sharding, Twitter has developed a framework that can be used in lieu of either custom-building data-store systems or using untested open-source alternatives and is sharing the code with the public. Sponsor From a number of data-store building experiences, Twitter has "extracted Gizzard, a Scala framework that makes it easy to create custom fault-tolerant, distributed databases." As an example, Kallen provides " Rowz ." "To get up-and-running with Gizzard quickly, clone Rows and start customizing!" The full code for Gizzard is also available. He describes Gizzard as a middleware networking service that handles partitioning through a forwarding table, supports migration and prosecutes "eventual consistency." The implication of this may be that startups and smaller companies may better be able to deal with large amounts of data quickly, and thereby better serve the needs their users with fewer resources expended. Discuss
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The IBM Cloud is a prototype of the ecosystem we expect to see emerge in the world of cloud services. It has the flavor of other platform environments, with the primary goal of integrating IBM with third-party applications to serve developers and end customers. It is the partners that tie into the larger ecosystems, often existing on multiple platforms. The healthy platforms will resemble coral reefs in which the partners are important to the cloud ecosystem as the platform itself. Sponsor But what is the importance of these third-party applications and what do they say about the future of IBM Cloud? RightScale RightScale http://rightscale.com is becoming a power in its own right. The San Diego-based company provides a sought after need. The capability to port applications to the cloud. RightScale is playing across the market. It has served as an important partner for Amazon Web Services in helping companies deploy cloud-based applications in the cloud. As part of an IBM ecosystem, the company will be one of those go to services that helps manage the cloud's inherent complexities. Kaavo Kaavo is another cloud management application that leverages its position as a service that according to the web site, provides "middleware on demand."That's a fascinating example of how entire infrastructures are moving off premise and into cloud environments. For instance, Kaavo makes the claim that it can bring online one or multiple server systems, configure middleware and deploy applications The result being that people may use the IBM platform to set up and tear down test and and development environments within minutes. Again, we see how IBM is seeking to provide services that serve the needs of the developer or IT manager looking for more efficient and powerful ways t leverage its assets in a private cloud environment or in a public cloud. Silanis Silanis fits in the e-signature market. In January, the company announced services that integrate with IBM's LotusLive. The service allows companies to work with customers in an extranet environment where contracts may be reviewed, modified and electronically signed. The service would seem to fit with IBM's efforts to create a transaction environment within IBM Cloud. Aviarc IBM is partnering with several application developers, including Aviarc , a custom software application developer for on-premise, private cloud, appliances or the multi-tenant environment of IBM Cloud. These are just samplings of the ecosystem that IBM is developing. You can tell that IBM is following its strategy to serve hybrid environments and establish its platform as a place where developers may build, test, sell and distribute applications. Discuss
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