Mesosphere Launches Elastic Mesos, Makes Setting Up A Mesos Cluster A 3-Step Process by Frederic Lardinois.
From the post:
Mesosphere, a startup that focuses on developing Mesos, a technology that makes running complex distributed applications easier, is launching Elastic Mesos today. This new product makes setting up a Mesos cluster on Amazon Web Services a basic three-step process that asks you for the size of the cluster you want to set up, your AWS credentials and an email where you want to get notifications about your cluster’s state.
Given the complexity of setting up a regular Mesos cluster, this new project will make it easier for developers to experiment with Mesos and the frameworks Mesosphere and others have created around it.
As Mesosphere’s founder Florian Leibert describes it, for many applications, the data center is now the computer. Most applications now run on distributed systems, but connecting all of the distributed parts is often still a manual process. Mesos’ job is to abstract away all of these complexities and to ensure that an application can treat the data center and all your nodes as a single computer. Instead of setting up various server clusters for different parts of your application, Mesos creates a shared pool of servers where resources can be allocated dynamically as needed.
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Remote computing isn’t as secure as my NATO SDIP-27 Level A (formerly AMSG 720B) and USA NSTISSAM Level I conformant office but there is a trade-off between maintenance/upgrade of local equipment and the convenience of remote computing.
In the near future, all forms of digital communication will be secure from the NSA and others. Before Snowden, it was widely known in a vague sense that the NSA and others were spying on U.S. citizens and others. Post-Snowden, user demand will result in vendors developing secure communications with two settings, secure and very secure.
Ironic that overreaching by the NSA will result in greater privacy for everyone of interest to the NSA.
PS: See Learn how to use Apache Mesos as well.