Dell’s Reportedly Working on Newfangled Cloudedge Servers

 Seems we are supposed to expect a line of servers called Cloudedge out of Dell this year that commoditizes species of the custom servers it makes for sites such as Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft Azure. They’d apparently go to folks who don’t buy in such bulk for private clouds and second-tier Internet companies, according to PC World. It’s thinking very energy-efficient and small but lacking redundancy so the user’s software will have to be able to work around failure. It’s also thinking of bundling them with VMware and Microsoft. They’d compete with IBM’s Idataplex, HP’s Extreme Scale-Out machines and SGI.

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Tags: Application Packaging, Virtualization

Embed Custom Google Maps With gMap jQuery Plugin

 

gMap is a lightweight (only 2 KB in size) jQuery plugin that helps you easily embed Google maps in your web pages. gMap is very flexible, and you can customize it in many different ways by passing a JSON object (containing various custom properties) to the GMap() function.

You can specify location of your gMap object using longitude and latitude.  Additional features include ability to specify which controls you want, enable or disable zooming with mouse scroll-wheel , custom marker image, multiple markers, custom viewport position, and zoom.

Developed by Cedric Kastner; gMap jQuery Plugin is available for download under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.  You can find further information, demos & download on gMap Website.

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Tags: Application Packaging, Cedric Kastner, Creative Common License, google, Graphs/Charts/Maps, jquery, Maps, Virtualization

CSC Named “Bronze Sponsor” of Cloud Expo New York and Silicon Valley

 SYS-CON Events announced today that CSC, a provider of technology enabled business solutions and services, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, and SYS-CON's 7th International Cloud Expo 2010 West, which will take place on November 1-3, 2010, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.

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Tags: Application Packaging, Virtualization

Build vs. Buy becomes SaaS vs. PaaS

 In the nascent years of Distributed Computing, a whole industry emerged; COTS. Off-the-shelf applications, or "commodity" programs became available.... Read more at VMblog.com.

Tags: Application Packaging, cloud, Virtualization

Oracle Shoots Down Sun Cloud

 Amazon’s EC2 and S3 have nothing to fear from Sun. Oracle says it’s going to blow the Amazon-aping Sun Open Cloud away. It doesn’t want to pursue the on-demand service, announced last March, a month before Oracle agreed to buy Sun, and promised for the summer, as a worldwide public cloud using OpenSolaris, Linux, Windows, Sun Grid Engine, ZFS, MySQL and Java running on Sparc and x86 blades complete with open APIs.

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Tags: Application Packaging, Virtualization

iland to Demonstrate Integration from Private Cloud Offerings into Existing Offerings at VMware Partner Exchange

 iland , a Premier Partner in VMware’s Service Provider Program, today announced its participation in VMware Partner Exchange vCloud Pavilion February Read more at VMblog.com.

Tags: Application Packaging, cloud, Virtualization

Microsoft XDrive Betas

 Microsoft has started beta testing its so-called XDrive as Windows Azure Drive. It’ll let users run their Windows apps in the cloud using standard Windows NTFS APIs to make migrating to the cloud easier. Microsoft said for the beta release, customers will only be billed for the storage space used by what it calls page blobs (defined as a drive formatted as a fixed NTFS VHD between 16MB and 1TB) and the read/write transactions to the page blob.

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Tags: Application Packaging, Virtualization

Microsoft Named “Gold Sponsor” of World’s Largest Cloud Computing Event

 SYS-CON Events announced today that Microsoft has been named “Gold Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event since 2007, and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

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Tags: Application Packaging, Virtualization

Azure Opens for Business

 Windows Azure and SQL Azure went commercial in the wee small hours Tuesday Greenwich time in 21 countries to face off against Amazon, IBM, Salesforce, Google, Cisco, EMC, VMware and Rackspace. And 99.95% Service Level Agreements (SLAs) kicked in and partners, ISVs and business-betting start-ups could start selling Azure-based solutions.

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Tags: Application Packaging, Virtualization

Integrating ELMAH for a WCF Service

 

Peter Cosemans, who is one of my colleagues, found a nice way to integrate ELMAH for a WCF service. ELMAH is an error logging facility for logging unhandled exceptions particularly focused on ASP.NET web applications. There are plenty of sources out there, like this blog post by Scott Hanselman, that describe how to get ELMAH up and running for an ASP.NET web application.

In order to get it working for WCF, you need to provide a custom error handler by implementing the IErrorHandler interface:

public class ElmahErrorHandler : IErrorHandler
{
    public void ProvideFault(Exception error, MessageVersion version,
                             ref Message fault)
    {
        var dummyRequest =
            new SimpleWorkerRequest("dummy", "", new StringWriter());
        var context = new HttpContext(dummyRequest);

        var elmahLogger = Elmah.ErrorLog.GetDefault(context);
        elmahLogger.Log(new Elmah.Error(error));
    }

    public Boolean HandleError(Exception error)
    {
        SDExceptionHandler.DoHandle(error);
        return true;
    }
}

 

This error handler needs to be added to the stack of error handlers. You can do this in a couple of ways, for example by providing a custom attribute that implements IServiceBehavior and then applying this attribute to your service class.

Next you need to add some configuration to your web.config and your all good to go:

<system.web>
    <httpHandlers>
        <add verb="POST,GET,HEAD"
             path="MyService.Elmah.axd"
             type="Elmah.ErrorLogPageFactory, Elmah" />
    </httpHandlers>
</system.web>

<elmah>
    <errorLog type="Elmah.XmlFileErrorLog, Elmah"
              logPath="C:\MyServiceLog\"/>
</elmah>

 

What’s nice about this approach is that you don’t need to run the WCF service in ASP.NET compatibility mode, which is a major bonus.

Hope this helps

Tags: Application Packaging, Virtualization, WCF