Mosso/Rackspace using ServiceMix
Bruce pointed out this little snippet on the new control panel and provisioning system for The Hosting Cloud from Mosso, a subsidiary of Rackspace. Its really interesting that the only specific technology mentioned in the article is Apache ServiceMix which they are apparently using as an integration point for management of current and future services.
We have certainly seen some interesting and unique uses of ServiceMix outside of the traditional business integration scenario, but I find this one really exciting. I have become really interested in the whole cloud computing and virtualization space but I really never expected to see ServiceMix mentioned like this. If anyone has more details about the architecture I would love to hear about it.
July 1st, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Hi,
I’m one of the developers working on the provisioning system at Mosso. We actually use a number of Apache apps at Mosso.
We’re using ServiceMix at the core of our provisioning system. Although I can’t go into details about the provisioning system itself, I can tell you that we use ServiceMix to handle SOAP requests from our control panel as well as for inter-service communication between the various pieces of our provisioning system.
Some of the other Apache apps we use include Tomcat, which runs our control panel, and Apache Directory Studio, which we use to manage our internal LDAP services. We are also in the process of evaluating Apache Directory Server.
Let me know if you have any questions, and I’ll try to get them answered for you if I can.
- Andrew
July 4th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Thanks for the additional information Andrew! I have sent a private email to you via LinkedIn.