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 At pennies per virtual machine-hour, the economics of cloud computing are both compelling and daunting to replicate. Whether you are building your own cloud infrastructure, building a public cloud or choosing a cloud service, there are key strategy and technology decisions that make th...May. 18, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 524 |
 Many organizations want to expand upon the IaaS foundation to deliver cloud services in all forms – software, mobility, infrastructure and IT. Understanding the strategy, planning process and tools for this transformation will help catalyze changes in the way the business operates and ...May. 16, 2013 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,107 |
Calxeda, the ARM-making low-power microserver hopeful, has gotten
some traction with Fedora, Red Hat’s open source Linux sandbox where
technologies pregnant with possibility are developed and tested ostensibly
by an army of community volunteers.May. 15, 2013 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 619 |
 Cloud Computing is booming and so is Cloud Expo – now with Big Data and Software-Defined Networking as fully integrated themes.
Here are the nine tracks we are serving up for you June 10–13 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center and below this brief note from me is a complete A–Z of...May. 6, 2013 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,364 |
 MapR Technologies, the Hadoop house, Wednesday released M7, a Big
Data platform that’s supposed to remove the usual trade-offs involved in
deploying a NoSQL database on Hadoop.
The widgetry packages Hadoop with HBase, the open source NoSQL
database modeled after Google’s BigTable...May. 2, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,809 |
 Eucalyptus Systems, Amazon’s private cloud partner, was expected to
announce a new 3.3 release of its open source cloud platform Monday that
promises its greatest compatibility with AWS yet.
Its new capabilities are also supposed to make Eucalyptus the solution for
developing and...Apr. 30, 2013 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,594 |
 "In June of 2013 we are shipping Eucalyptus version 3.3 and again we present features to you that other cloud platforms are only dreaming of," blogged Eucalyptus CEO Mårten Mickos today. "We are adding three new services for scalable cloud workloads," he continued, "Auto Scaling, Elast...Apr. 29, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,332 |
 The Future of Open Source Survey 2013 results were just recently released and the news is almost entirely good news for SaaS providers. In reviewing the results I see three new or improved opportunities for SaaS companies. As a backdrop to these opportunities it is important to keep in...Apr. 28, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 969 |
 "HP provides the industry's most comprehensive hybrid cloud solution leveraging OpenStack across HP today extended its commitment to the OpenStack community with new and enhanced HP Converged Cloud offerings that enable enterprises to increase agility, speed innovation and lower costs,...Apr. 15, 2013 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,067 |
 “The Nebula One delivers on Nebula’s mission to democratize cloud computing by bringing the simplicity, agility, and operational efficiency of the world’s largest Internet companies to all enterprises at a fraction of the cost of public cloud services,” said Chris C. Kemp, co-founder a...Apr. 2, 2013 03:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,938 |
 Google has made an Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge not to sue
any user, distributor or developer of open source software over specified
patents unless it’s sued first.
It’s starting with 10 patents all relating to MapReduce, the computing model
for processing large data se...Apr. 2, 2013 02:45 AM EDT Reads: 777 |
 “Our common interest in open source solutions has enabled OSSI to put together an all-star team of Government, commercial and community partners,” said John Farrell of HP/Fortify, OSSI's volunteer chairman and Chief Information Security Officer, as OSSI named several new members to its...Mar. 27, 2013 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,826 |
 Blender is a beast. At least to a guy like me that is usual in code and not in user interface tools. Sure I use Xcode, Eclipse, and Visual Studio but they just give me a place to code. I have used Photoshop, GIMP, and Expression Studio which make you depend on the tools available but B...Mar. 26, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 968 |
 PayPal is moving its 15,000 nodes off on VMware, the proprietary cloud
platform, to the relatively unstable OpenStack, the anti-Amazon open source
cloud platform backed by IBM, HP, Dell, Red Hat and Rackspace.
If the migration is successful, then eBay, PayPal’s parent company, is ...Mar. 26, 2013 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,668 |
 On 19 November 2010, according to www.whendidyoujointwitter.com, the account @GoogleCloud was registered with Twitter. 848 days later it has yet to tweet. But that may be about to change...Mar. 17, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,686 |
 This year, Eucalyptus Professional Services is going open. All the way open," blogged Jason Eden, Senior Director of Professional Services at Eucalyptus Systems, this week as the open source cloud company ushered in changes in the realm of Education, Consulting, and Certification.
Feb. 14, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,038 |
 "Cloud computing’s not a panacea and it’s not the ideal solution for every business situation," wrote Oracle SVP Bob Evans recently in Forbes, "but at the same time, it’s no longer some nebulous (pardon me) theory whose risk is high and whose potential benefits are impossible to quanti...Jan. 28, 2013 06:30 AM EST Reads: 4,357 |
 Exposed to Facebook’s Open Compute notion, Rackspace has been enticed into building its own servers for one of its next data centers so it can “break down the engineering barriers that lock users into proprietary technologies” save money and get systems deployed on the floor faster.
...Jan. 25, 2013 07:45 AM EST Reads: 2,072 |
 Dell just released a technical preview of its private cloud widgetry, Dell
Cloud Dedicated with OpenStack, and while it was at said OpenStack is
going to be its primary cloud platform, used for both public and private
clouds.
The company intends to continue to offer overall solut...Dec. 14, 2012 11:00 AM EST Reads: 3,178 |
 “This year we’ve seen enterprises turn increasingly to Dell Services to help modernize and adapt their IT environments to manage the growing challenges and opportunities presented by these disruptive forces," said Suresh Vaswani, president, Dell Services, as Dell's CEO Michael Dell use...Dec. 13, 2012 05:45 AM EST Reads: 5,026 |
 Egenera has made a rare acquisition, picking a young Dublin ISV called Fort
Technologies that brings the Massachusetts firm private and public cloud
management sort of along the lines of what Cloupia is bringing Cisco and
Gale is bringing Dell.
Egenera, however, is way ahead of t...Dec. 6, 2012 01:15 AM EST Reads: 1,961 |
 Both OpenStack.org and the OpenStack ecosystem intend to go into orbit at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley today, November 5th. Jonathan Bryce, the Executive Director of the newly-formed OpenStack Foundation, and who has spent his entire career building the cloud, is to give the opening keyno...Nov. 5, 2012 02:15 PM EST Reads: 12,550 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in two weeks' time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA - co-located with 2nd International BigDataExpo - let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for t...Oct. 29, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 7,340 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) - co-located with 2nd International Big Data Expo - due to open in two weeks' time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty fo...Oct. 24, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,890 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in two weeks' time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA - co-located with 2nd International BigDataExpo - let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for t...Oct. 22, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,370 |
 Ginny Rometty, who took over from Sam Palmisano as president and CEO
of IBM back the first of the year, will add the title of chairman when Sam
steps down from the board on October 1. He will stick around as senior
advisor until he retires on December 1. Palmisano became CEO in 2002...Sep. 26, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,876 |
 Red Hat, still feeding for the moment off the shift from Unix to Linux, fell
better than 4.8% evening out at $55.90 after-hours Monday when it said
its fiscal Q2 earnings were down year-on-year because of investments and
acquisition-related expenses.Sep. 25, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,464 |
 VMware, Intel and NEC are still waiting to hear if their applications to join
the open source OpenStack Foundation as dues-paying Gold members have
been accepted.
VMware’s surprise application is considered a particular coup for the
fledgling organization since it was positioned ...Sep. 4, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,170 |
 Last year, cloud computing pundits predicted that 2012 would be the year when the clouds would open. They were right as cloud computing enthusiasts all over are embracing the open ecosystem; however, denying one vendor the right to serve as the de facto API is only the tip of the icebe...Aug. 30, 2012 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,382 |
 There are way too many PaaS options around, so AppFog has enveloped one of them and will suck up its technology.
It’s acquired Nodester, the open source PaaS for Node.js, which it says grew 40% in the last 30 days.
AppFog is using Nodester’s intellectual property to collaborate w...Aug. 29, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,154 |
 On the day it won a billion-dollar jury decision against Samsung for patent
infringement in the week it became the most valuable company ever on the
stock exchange, Apple lost an infringement case in Korea, Samsung’s home
turf.Aug. 27, 2012 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,605 |
 At its first full Board of Directors meeting, due to be held Tuesday August 28th, The OpenStack Foundation will be considering among other things applications from VMware, Intel, and NEC to become Gold Members of the foundation. They would be joining prior Gold Members like Cisco, Dell...Aug. 27, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,598 |
 VMware has cut a deal to acquire privately held Nicira Inc and its cloudy open source network virtualization widgetry for $1.05 billion in cash plus roughly $210 million in unvested equity awards. So that makes a tidy $1.26 altogether.
It’s VMware’s biggest acquisition ever and should...Jul. 24, 2012 07:30 AM EDT Reads: 3,159 |
 Google’s officially out of stock of 16-gigabyte Nexus 7 tablets. And, according to sources speaking to The Guardian’s Charles Arthur, it’s because the company “seriously underestimated” demand for the seven-inch device. “The Guardian understands that...Jul. 24, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,011 |
 Paul Maritz, the one-time high-ranking Microsoftee who has been CEO of
VMware for the last four years, is out of a job, according to CRN, replaced
by EMC COO and Intel veteran Pat Gelsinger.
Nobody’s sure if Maritz is staying or going. Gelsinger has been bruited as
a possible rep...Jul. 17, 2012 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,124 |
 10th International Cloud Expo, held on June 11–14, 2012 at the Javits Center in New York City, featured four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ...Jul. 9, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,869 |
 The OpenNebula Project is proud to announce the public availability of the OpenNebula Marketplace, an online catalog where individuals and organizations can quickly distribute and deploy virtual appliances ready-to-run on OpenNebula clouds. The new Marketplace is fully integrated with ...Jul. 2, 2012 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,535 |
 I have been an Android user for my mobile phone for over two years now and using their tablets almost as frequently. I started with the HTC EVO 4G, and have possessed more than ten (no seriously) Android tablets, phones and devices since then. I can (and do) root everything I own, i... Jun. 29, 2012 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,166 |
 Red Hat said Wednesday that it’s arranged to buy FuseSource from Progress
Software. Terms were not disclosed but they’re not material.
FuseSource evidently has some open source integration and messaging
widgetry that Red Hat thinks is valuable. Red Hat’s plans are fixated on
appl...Jun. 28, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,818 |
 What do the CTOs of the CIA and the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the CIO of the National Reconnaissance Office have in common with the CEOs of Eucalyptus, GoGrid, ActiveState, Appcara, OpSource and Nortonworks, the CTOs of Rackspace, SoftLayer, SOA Software and AppZero, the Founder & Gene...Jun. 10, 2012 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 8,959 |
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