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Load Balancing Your OpSource Cloud

We're pleased to announce the release of Load Balancing in the OpSource Cloud!

Dedicated to you, and powered by Cisco, OpSource Cloud Load Balancing allows you the flexibility to gracefully add/remove cloud servers to a server farm as your needs demand it.  This can aid in new application releases, server maintenance, and server upgrades.  

With this release you can use the Load Balancing features in the traditional sense to distribute load across a server farm to ensure high performance of your application or for redundancy to have your application seamlessly fail over to another available server in case of application failure.

All of the OpSource Cloud Load Balancing features are also available through our REST based API that allows you to programmatically scale your environment on demand (scale up to meet demand, scale down to reduce operating costs).

Detailed information has been posted within the OpSource Cloud Community on how to use Load Balancing in the OpSource Cloud.

As always...thanks for using the OpSource Cloud!

OpSource Cloud Hiring - Northern Virginia

Hey all.  We're currently looking to expand the cloud team with a jr. to mid level developer (based in N. VA) that will help with the support of OpSource Cloud clients.  If you are interested in the below position send us a note at jobs@opsource.net, with CloudTech in the subject line. 

Cloud Tech

Experience:

• XML/Web Services
• Knowledge of Python, Ruby, Perl, Java (any of these areas)
  
• 1 to 3 years of active programming (doesn't have to be corporate experience)
  
• Working in team environment
• Serving in a learner/teacher role
  
• Positive, Customer Service driven attitude

Experience Pluses:

• Knowledge of VMWare
• Windows or Linux based system administration
  
• Knowledge of Distributed file systems (Hadoop, gfs, mogile), SAN and NAS storage

Responsibilities (the cool part):

• Interface with Product and Engineering (Ireland) on Tactical and Strategic Cloud Support
• Blogging/technical writing for evangelist activities on the OpSource Cloud Blog
• Outward facing technical activities with Cloud community and vendors
• Answer questions and provide guidance via the OpSource Cloud community
• Create screencasts/videos and instructional documentation
• Positive, Customer Service driven attitude (did we say that twice?)

Hey all.  We're currently looking to expand the cloud team with a jr. to mid level developer (based in N. VA) that will help with the support of OpSource Cloud clients.  If you are interested in the below position send us a note at jobs@opsource.net, with CloudTech in the subject line. 

Cloud Tech

Experience:

• XML/Web Services
• Knowledge of Python, Ruby, Perl, Java (any of these areas)
  
• 1 to 3 years of active programming (doesn't have to be corporate experience)
  
• Working in team environment
• Serving in a learner/teacher role
  
• Positive, Customer Service driven attitude

Experience Pluses:

• Knowledge of VMWare
• Windows or Linux based system administration
  
• Knowledge of Distributed file systems (Hadoop, gfs, mogile), SAN and NAS storage

Responsibilities (the cool part):

• Interface with Product and Engineering (Ireland) on Tactical and Strategic Cloud Support
• Blogging/technical writing for evangelist activities on the OpSource Cloud Blog
• Outward facing technical activities with Cloud community and vendors
• Answer questions and provide guidance via the OpSource Cloud community
• Create screencasts/videos and instructional documentation
• Positive, Customer Service driven attitude (did we say that twice?)

OpSource Cloud Multicast Beta

We've just released an important new feature for the OpSource Cloud.  Starting today you can now request Layer 2 Multicast to be enabled on your OpSource Cloud network. 

Multicast in a Layer 2 network (not to be confused with Multicast routing) is generally used for 'clustering' types of services.  Tomcat, Jboss, Windows and Redhat are just a few pieces of software that generally use Multicast when being set up as a cluster.

To enable Mulitcast during the Beta period OpSource Cloud customers can open a case within the OpSource Cloud community.  Once out of Beta OpSource Cloud customers will be able to enable Multicast via the administrative UI or with a direct call to the OpSource Cloud API.

Multicast falls under the current pricing structure of your OpSource Cloud network fee and has been added at no additional charge.

Thanks for using the OpSource Cloud!

Ruby Based Templates for Using the OpSource Cloud API

The team over at Tap In Systems has developed a tool to enable modeling and automation of OpSource Cloud services and have created a template for interfacing to the OpSource Cloud.  The modeling function of the tool allows you to create executable programs based on Petri Net modeling techniques. 

They've also posted Ruby samples that will allow Ruby scripts to call the OpSource Cloud APIs.

TapIn is distributing the beta version of the tool and templates free of charge.  You can get them at:

http://tapin.wikispaces.com/OpSource+Interface+Methods
http://tapin.wikispaces.com/OpSource+Automation

Happy Birthday Senor Cloud

Happy Birthday Senor and a Happy New Year to you all!  

From all of us at the OpSource Cloud.