The difficult marriage of cloud and data-intensive apps
Two days ago, Songnian Zhou, Platform's CEO, sent out an email blast with "one of the biggest announcements in the company's history". Platform, known for its LSF workload management family, just announced their new product Platform ISF. This middleware makes it possible to build private Clouds and run applications on the Cloud. This coincided (not by chance) with yesterday's announcement from Platform's historically biggest competitor.
