Michael Sheehan

GigaSpaces and GoGrid have been strategic partners for quite a while. This week, we jointly announced a new technology partnership aimed at offering Java and .NET as a PaaS solution. To further explain our combined solution, there is a webinar slotted for October 14th where Guy Nirpaz (EVP of R&D at GigaSpaces) and Paul Lancaster (Business Development Manager at GoGrid). The webinar will specifically address integration between GigaSpaces XAP and GoGrid. Webinar Date: October 14, 2009 Time: 9:00AM PDT Registration: Online The following press release was sent out today which goes into some detail about this new exciting offering: GoGrid & GigaSpaces Join Forces to Create an Enterprise-grade PaaS Offering for Java and .NET Enterprises benefit from the economics of the pu... (more)

The Microsoft/Danger/T-Mobile Sidekick Fiasco is NOT a Failure of Cloud Computing!

Over the past few days, I have seen a lot of articles, tweets and commentary about how the recent failure within Danger (who was purchased by Microsoft about a year ago) of data for the T-Mobile Sidekick was “the Cloud’s fault,” and this really bothered me. As Microsoft is poised to do something with the Danger brand (”Project Pink“) as well as soon release their Cloud Computing Platform... (more)

GoGrid Announces New Pricing & More Volume Discount Plans

Last week, we released a new version of GoGrid which includes new RAM Hour and Bandwidth Pricing Plans, included larger volume discounts. Further details of this released covered in this post are: New RAM Hour and Bandwidth Pricing Plans New Linux & Windows Base Images Behind-the-scenes Performance Improvements Read on for more details. New RAM Hour and Bandwidth Pricing Plans With this ... (more)

Scale your Web Presence Globally via GoGrid Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Yesterday GoGrid and EdgeCast Networks jointly announced the availability of the GoGrid CDN (Content Delivery Network). With the GoGrid CDN (currently in beta), GoGrid customers can scale their web presence as well as accelerate the delivery of web content using the GoGrid CDN global infrastructure. What is unique about the GoGrid CDN (powered by EdgeCast Networks) is that it is a pay-as-... (more)

f5 Networks and GoGrid Share Their News

I had the pleasure of not only attending the Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara, CA this week, staffing the booth and generally enjoying talking to a wide range of developers, technologists, vendors, partners and others, but I also was able to do a couple of interviews with Peter Silva, Technical Marketing Manager of f5 Networks. If you don’t already know, free f5 load balancing has bee... (more)