Grid Computing News : Grid Duo Boosts Amazon EC2

Grid Dynamics and GridGain have teamed up to boost the power of Amazon EC2, and they have the numbers to prove it. The two recently conducted what they said was the "largest publicly known grid scalability test" for Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which demonstrated linear scalability up to 512 nodes on a Monte Carlo simulation problem when GridGain's middleware and Amazon EC2 were used together. DataSynapse Adds FabricServer Support for VMware DataSynapse unveiled FabricServer 2.6 software, which now includes support for VMware (NYSE: VMW) Virtual Center for faster adoption of virtualization. FabricServer automates the deployment and provisioning of enterprise applications in a VMware-based virtual infrastructure, boosting server utilization rates and enabling virtual applications to be dynamically assembled at run-time from reusable operating system, middleware and applications templates, which reduces the storage needed for virtual images by up to 80 percent. Xeround Nabs Funding Round Xeround, which claims to have developed the "first distributed data grid with virtualization capabilities," has closed a $16 million round of Series B funding led by Ignition Partners and Trilogy Partnership.... read more