Mohamed El-Refaey

Steve Herrod (VMware CTO) announced today that VMware is intending to acquire SpringSource, a 5 year-old company rapidly becoming a leader in enterprise and web application development and management. http://blogs.vmware.com/console/2009/08/vmware-acquires-springsource.html Seems interesting but we will wait till we see how they will complement each other, cloud/virtualization core vendor and enterprise level Java platform. ... (more)

CloudCamp in Egypt

I have added Cairo to the list of cities that can host the CloudCamp this year (2009). Currently, I'm in the process of finding the place and prepare for this be a successful event. http://www.cloudcamp.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/cloudcamp/web/cloudcamp-city-organizers?hl=en ... (more)

High Availability (VM Live migration)

Achieving High Performance and Availability through the Migration of Clustered Virtual Machines is the title of the study i did in high availability and presented a poster on the ACCACES 2008 summer school in Italy. ... (more)

Ubuntu 9.10 Will Feature Cloud Computing

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder and leader of Canonical Ltd., the authors and distributors of the Ubuntu distro of Linux, announced the code name of the new version Friday and noted that the Ubuntu team had several priorities, including the design of the system’s “look”, according to a CNET article. The most interesting of the priorities, perhaps, was the inclusion of cloud computing feat... (more)

UCI Architecture

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