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 What do the CTO of 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 and AppZero, the Founder & General Manager of Dell Boomi, ...May. 16, 2012 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,591 |
 With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) now under six weeks away, what better time to introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
We have technical and strateg...May. 7, 2012 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,725 |
 Former Sun CEO Scott McNealy, an off-again-on-again buddy of
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, is going to testify for Oracle Thursday in its
infringement suit against Google and Android.
His appearance could wrap up Oracle’s side of the copyright infringement
part of the trial and he co...Apr. 26, 2012 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,111 |
 "Over the last year, Eucalyptus has solidified its lead as the most widely deployed private cloud software platform and the leader in hybrid architectures," said Mårten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, as Eucalyptus today announced an oversubscribed $30 million Series C round of fund...Apr. 18, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,126 |
 IBM and Red Hat are supposed to step out of the background and officially
join the OpenStack movement.
According to GigaOm, they could sign up this week or next week at the
OpenStack Spring Conference.
IBM was on a list of contributors to the open source cloud project in
Febru...Apr. 10, 2012 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,030 |
 Citrix has announced that it is submitting the popular CloudStack platform to Apache Foundation. This comes as a surprise as Citrix has acquired Cloud.com only last year by investing a few hundreds of millions of dollars! With this, Citrix is also dumping it’s own distribution of OpenS...Apr. 4, 2012 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,001 |
 Microsoft Research has this week donated its Mayhem simple scripting system for non-programmers to The Outercurve Foundation -- a non-profit group focused on software IP management and project development governance.
Adrian BridgwaterMar. 9, 2012 06:30 AM EST Reads: 1,099 |
 Over the last year I have been working on the CloudStack Open Source Cloud Computing project. This month we are getting ready to launch CloudStack 3.0 which really raises the bar for cloud computing platforms. So what is CloudStack? It is an infrastructure-as-a-service(IaaS) platform ...Feb. 14, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 2,310 |
 Red Hat Storage (née Gluster) has recruited open source experts at Facebook, OpenStack and Eucalyptus for an independent GlusterFS advisory board meant to push the open source GlusterFS project and foster contributions and participation from third-party sys admins, developers and ISVs....Jan. 26, 2012 06:00 AM EST Reads: 4,115 |
 CloudLinux, Inc., developers of the only commercially-supported Linux server operating system made specifically for shared hosting, today announced that CloudLinux OS is now fully compatible with the Atomia software automation platform.
"Now, Atomia customers can easily upgrade their ...Jan. 19, 2012 07:30 AM EST Reads: 1,967 |
 With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) starting today Monday November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference...
We have t...Nov. 7, 2011 02:00 AM EST Reads: 3,916 |
 Cloud Expo New York, June 6-9, 2011 early bird registration will expire on Friday. Register now for a Gold Pass for the 8th International Cloud Expo on June 6–9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City and save $500 on your full conference pass. Gold Pass Delegates will receive ful...Apr. 12, 2011 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 10,289 |
 "This acquisition marks a significant step forward in our investment in the success of OpenStack," wrote OpenStack's GM Jim Curry Wednesday as he confirmed that Rackspace has acquired Anso Labs, best known for its work with NASA to help build their Nebula cloud platform, the code behin...Feb. 10, 2011 08:45 AM EST Reads: 5,424 |
 In July 2010 the StratusLab project conducted two surveys to collect requirements for the StratusLab cloud distribution and to understand the existing experience with virtualization/cloud technologies in Europe. Funded through the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), Strat...Jan. 18, 2011 07:00 AM EST Reads: 4,360 |
 A few months back, in a story mostly about Microsoft’s complicated relationship with the Russian government and its seemingly dualistic role in the ongoing suppression of various free speech and human rights organizations, we also surfaced contemporaneous reports in the Russian languag...Dec. 29, 2010 04:15 AM EST Reads: 3,963 |
 Eucalyptus Systems and Red Hat are now partners. Red Hat has a lot of cloud ambitions and delivers the infrastructure but it doesn’t have a cloud platform. Eucalyptus has an open source-based private cloud platform that does the heavy lifting and provides the cloud’s signature elastici...Dec. 15, 2010 01:30 PM EST Reads: 9,124 Replies: 1 |
 It took Novell more than two days after the announcement that it's being bought for its chief marketing officer John Dragoon to say on the company's web site that Novell's Unix copyrights will stay with Novell.
God knows it wasn't answering the phone.
What Dragoon says still mean...Nov. 25, 2010 05:00 PM EST Reads: 6,022 |
 Having had 3Tera in its possession since February, CA Technologies has revved its AppLogic turnkey cloud infrastructure widgetry and come out with a 2.9 platform to broad its appeal.
It's supposed to let cloud-minded managed service providers or large enterprise themselves look like...Oct. 6, 2010 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,993 |
 Who is buying Novell? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that VMware is in talks to acquire Novell's Linux software unit. Novell, adds the Journal, is in "advanced talks with at least two buyers." VMware's primary interest would be in purchasing Novell's SUSE Linux operating system b...Sep. 17, 2010 03:15 AM EDT Reads: 7,596 |
 The OpenNebula Project has just announced that OpenNebula has been selected as cloud management tool for the EU's BonFIRE project. OpenNebula will provide this new strategic European project with a powerful technology to build and operate a multi-site cloud facility to support applicat...Sep. 9, 2010 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,734 |
 Oracle has apparently rolled back Solaris to its pre-open source days. The company hasn’t made an official announcement, and may never, but an internal e-mail ostensibly to its own remaining Solaris engineers outlining its position on OpenSolaris just happened to fall into the hands of...Aug. 17, 2010 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,182 |
 In case Oracle takes it into its head to abandon or shut down OpenSolaris, a bunch of disgruntled developers led by Nexenta Systems Inc. means to ensure the open source code survives and prospers under a breakaway project independent of Oracle called Illumos, whose rebel flag reads “Ho...Aug. 3, 2010 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,870 |
 Rackspace Hosting wants to be the one that defines the public and private commodity cloud, denying bigger competitors the chance to do it.
So the other day – in the name of fostering standards, ensuring cloud interoperability and defeating vendor lock-in – it set in play OpenStack, a...Jul. 25, 2010 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,400 |
 OpenNebula has just released a Deltacloud adaptor to build Hybrid Clouds. A Hybrid Cloud is an extension of a Private Cloud to combine local resources with resources from one or several remote Cloud providers. The remote provider could be a commercial Cloud service or a partner private...Jun. 14, 2010 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,490 |
 Founded by Isilon founder Paul Mikesell and Sergei Tsarev, who led the Internet Operations Systems Infrastructure team at AOL, San Francisco-based Clustrix emerged from stealth mode today and announced the Clustrix CLX 4010, a highly scalable database solution that addresses the infras...May. 8, 2010 02:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,577 |
 New Site Open for Free Search and Download from Thousands of Virtual Machine Images for any Hypervisor, Speeding the Deployment of Virtualization and Cloud Computing.
The virtual machine images available through Thunderflash are vitally important to IT professionals, as they contain...Apr. 19, 2010 08:53 AM EDT Reads: 5,823 |
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 Once the news got out that it had welched on its 2005 patent pledge to the open source community and had threatened TurboHercules (TH) with patent infringement, IBM had to come up with some cover story or another to contain the fallout. So it switched places with many of its observers ...Apr. 9, 2010 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 9,772 |
 OpSource, the leader in SaaS hosting and enterprise cloud, and Irish declaration customs management software developer ABM Data Systems have teamed together to help companies easily fulfill new excise goods movement requirements for European companies. The combination of CustomsWare's ...Mar. 25, 2010 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,489 |
 Novell broke its 18-day silence late Saturday morning and rejected the unsolicited $5.75-a-share offer to take the company private that Elliott Associates plunked on the table March 2.
Novell wants more money.
Bearing in mind that Novell currently has close to a billion dollars i...Mar. 23, 2010 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 5,190 |
 Described as optimized for web applications and cloud computing, NorthScale's solution is already being leveraged by web properties such as Zynga’s FarmVille, Café World, Mafia Wars and other games that have over 235 million active users a month as well as Korea’s number one search por...Mar. 16, 2010 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,632 |
Now seven months under VMware’s wing, SpringSource trundled out tc Server Spring Edition Wednesday.
It’s advertised as the best place to build and run Spring applications because of the end-to-end visibility that SpringSource has added to the thing not only for the Java developer, ... Mar. 10, 2010 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,095 |
 After Wall Street closed yesterday, Elliott Associates LP, a hedge fund with $16 billion under management, made a reportedly unsolicited bid to buy Novell, the Linux operating system’s lackluster number two champion, for what looks like about $2 billion and take it private.
It’s off...Mar. 3, 2010 12:00 PM EST Reads: 3,282 |
 The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit
organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced
the 2010 "We're Linux" video contest. The contest seeks to find the best
user-generated videos that demonstrate what Linux means to those who use it
and inspire othe...Feb. 5, 2010 01:00 PM EST Reads: 3,520 |
 MySQL creator Monty Widenius’ petition to stop Oracle from getting the MySQL open source database along with Sun Microsystems collected more than 14,000 signatures before Widenius started circulating the results to “regulators, governmental bodies, parliaments and journalists” in the w...Jan. 4, 2010 10:00 AM EST Reads: 8,875 |
 The Rackspace Cloud, Rackspace Hosting’s cloud computing unit, has added FathomDB, a MySQL-based Database-as-a-Service (DaaS) start-up, to its ecosystem.
FathomDB is now built on Rackspace Cloud’s standards-based API.
FathomDB claims to have helped start the DaaS industry by of...Jan. 2, 2010 03:00 PM EST Reads: 3,900 |
 View the live panel discussion taped on December 8, 2009 at SYS-CON.TV's 4th-floor studio overlooking Times Square in New York City a very special "Power Panel" in which Cloud Computing Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan and three top industry guests from EMC, Intel and Unisys will be...Dec. 30, 2009 12:00 AM EST Reads: 13,394 |
 Koders.com issued a summary of the most popular computer language keywords, files and projects used by developers in December, 2009. Analyzing search engine trends in a number of different computer languages, the "12 Days of Code Search" is based on hundreds of thousands of searches an...Dec. 28, 2009 11:13 AM EST Reads: 4,454 |
 Sophisticated and advanced analytics tools that can strategically aggregate relevant data is key to the success of every business. The right solution can be challenging to find considering that we grab information from a multitude of platforms today – enterprise, web, social networks, ...Dec. 25, 2009 01:30 PM EST Reads: 9,349 Replies: 1 |
 Oisín Hurley is one of the smartest, funniest and best looking people in the Eclipse community*. So when he says jump, I jump. That's right it is the last day to get your EclipseCon submission for a talk in. If you have been doing anything interesting with BIRT that you would like to s...Dec. 19, 2009 02:00 PM EST Reads: 4,312 |
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