Chronicles of a Wandering Mind http://www.mberkay.com Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:07:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Bookmarks for December 30th through January 27th http://www.mberkay.com/2010/01/27/bookmarks-for-december-30th-through-january-27th/ http://www.mberkay.com/2010/01/27/bookmarks-for-december-30th-through-january-27th/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:07:56 +0000 Berkay Mollamustafaoglu http://www.mberkay.com/?p=164 Interesting links for December 30th through January 27th:

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  • Trademarkia (TM) Simplifies Trademark Search – Trademarkia let’s you search all U.S. trademarks filed since 1870, including dead marks. The company has scans of all the marks and returns results in a very appealing visual grid. You can search by company, theme, product category, or even filing attorney. Companies can also file a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office through the site.
  • Google – Internet Stats – This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time.
  • GreenMail – Email Test Servers – GreenMail is an open source, intuitive and easy-to-use test suite of email servers for testing purposes.
    Supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP with SSL socket support.

    GreenMail is the fist and only library that offers a test framework for both receiving and retrieving emails from Java.

]]> http://www.mberkay.com/2009/09/27/bookmarks-for-july-29th-through-september-27th/feed/ -1 Vmware Springsource and Hyperic: Brave new world and a lot of questions http://www.mberkay.com/2009/08/11/vmware-springsource-and-hyperic-brave-new-world-and-a-lot-of-questions/ http://www.mberkay.com/2009/08/11/vmware-springsource-and-hyperic-brave-new-world-and-a-lot-of-questions/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:39:53 +0000 Berkay Mollamustafaoglu http://www.mberkay.com/?p=155 So Vmware is acquiring SpringSource. Like most people, my first reaction was say what? I didn’t get it; what’s VMWare got to do with SpringSource and Java ?
I read the blog posts by Steve Herrod and Rod Johnson. They were explaining their vision at a high level as expected, and it did not help much. I was still drawing a blank. I hit twitter, read some immediate reactions and subsequent blog posts, hoping they do the hard work and spell it out for me. No such luck. Comments were so diagonally opposed to one another that I’ve concluded it wasn’t just me who was confused. @daveofdoom thought Hyperic was a key tech, Reuven Cohen concluded that, Hyperic was unneeded by VMWare and would be shut down. Confused yet?

A sneaking suspicion has come over me: We don’t understand what these guys are really up to just yet, and they are up to something groundbreaking, that may shape the future.

No help from usually insightful sources, (amazing how easily I got used to readily available quality analysis for free!) I had to do some thinking and speculation myself. I reread the announcements and started thinking.

First, why am I interested? We use many of the technologies provided by these companies in some form. iFountain is a java shop, and use VMWare for development and testing. Our product RapidInsight is built on Grails and heavily uses Groovy, and has integration with Hyperic (one of the best server/application management solutions in the market, open source or otherwise.)

What does this acquisition mean to us?
1. VMWare Springsource Java stack combination.
As mentioned in Steve Herrod’s post, it no longer makes sense for the VMs to be ignorant of the applications running on them. VMs and the applications need to be introduced to each other. If they become good friends, and start talking and sharing, all kinds of cool things can happen.
In my experience, actual hardware and operating system has lost its importance a while ago. If you develop pure java applications, JVM becomes your environment. Why do we need another layer of abstraction, especially if it is virtual? To run a java application like RapidInsight in the cloud (EC2, etc.) or on VMWare hosted image, one has to create an OS image, configure it, make it secure, maintain/administer it, etc. just to host the JVM so that java app can run.
What if instead, VMWare could run JVMs natively just like it’s running linux or windows?

JVM running natively without an OS would presumably have a lot smaller footprint, and save resources. However, more substantial savings would probably come from eliminating administrative overhead of managing the OS.
From an ISV standpoint, this combination may enable ISVs to deploy applications in VMWare JVM ready format, to be installed and running within minutes.

2. Instrumentation of the applications and VMware
Hyperic is different than other solutions in the market it’s competing. It has an agent that is installed on the host and can gather in depth information that is essential for the “conversation” between the applications and VMware.
Using Hyperic, applications can be instrumented, giving in-depth information on how the application is performing, etc. Imagine VMWare assigning another CPU and more memory to the JVM on the fly automatically based on various performance parameters! (afaik neither is currently possible without a restart of the JVM). Now that would be something!

3. Development tools – cloud integration
We use various VMWare images for development. Having an IDE that is integrated with the cloud (VMWare) resources and enable running apps directly on the cloud by push of a button from IDE sounds good to me. If VMWare/Springsource continues to invest in having great support for Groovy and Grails in Eclipse, and integrate it with the cloud, it will be a great combination.

In short, I can see VMWare becoming THE platform for us to develop our products. All of a sudden, this is not such a crazy acquisition. Hats off to everyone involved, there is some great potential here!

From traditional IT management perspective, things are a bit blurry. Springsource acquisition of Hyperic hinted that Hyperic may become more of a specialized management vendor, focusing on java application management. With the acquisition of Springsource by VMWare, this has become a stronger possibility.

With this acquisition, Hyperic (product line) is moving into dominating the future of IT management with a vertically integrated solution. Does VMWare intend to compete in the traditional IT management market with the likes of Zenoss, Groundworks, Tivoli, HP, BMC, etc. as well, or will they gradually abandon this market? What is the future of Hyperic product line, if any, apart from being a key enabling technology for VMWare’s cloud platform?

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