Setting up Cassandra clusters in the cloud with Whirr
- Feb
- 10
For those interested in setting up Cassandra clusters on AWS EC2 and other cloud infrastructure providers, Apache Whirr provides a very easy way out.Whirr abstracts different cloud providers by using jclouds, so by a simple configuration change, once can easily launch clusters on AWS or Rackspace. These are the two providers supported for now, but [...]
read moreNube now an official Amazon Web Services Solution Provider
- Jan
- 18
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Nube Technologies has been selected by Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company to join its Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solution Provider Program. With our listing as Amazon’s solution providers, we join a select group of technically innovative companies focused on cutting edge cloud computing solutions. Our extensive usage of on demand Amazon Web Services like [...]
read moreAmazon Elastic Map Reduce Lessons Learnt
- Oct
- 03
Elastic Map Reduce is a great web service to get up and running with Hadoop without setting up own clusters. We recently worked on a vertical search engine using EMR. As part of our processing, we had our initial data on S3, and we also wanted to place the fetched data on S3. We were [...]
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