June 29, 2012

Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.

• VMware: VMware vCloud Blog: Another VMware Cloud: The …

The NDI decided to pilot a vCloud Director implementation with Bluelock’s vCloud … (more)

• vcloud – listnodes on a vcd 1.5 cloud

Hi, I’ve hit a problem on using the latest stable release of li= bcloud against a vcloud director 1.5 cloud and need help in trying to reso= lve this problem . (more)

• Security, Cost Still Barriers to Small Business Cloud Storage Adoption

eWeek Small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) are turning to cloud computing as an easier to manage, lower cost alternative to traditional computing, but concerns over security and cost of implementation remained barriers to adoption, according to a survey of … (more)

• Your corporate data needs to be in the public cloud — starting now

InfoWorld Looking for your first cloud computing project? Chances are you’re considering a very small, very low-risk application to create on a public PaaS or IaaS cloud provider. I get the logic: It’s a low-value application. If the thing tanks or your … (more)

• TEC Accreditation UNIT4 Reinvents Cloud MultiTenancy | Reuters

SLIEDRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS, Jun 29 (MARKET WIRE) –UNIT4 (EURONEXT AMSTERDAM:UNIT4), a global business software group,announced today that its multi-tenant … (more)

• TEC Accreditation UNIT4 Reinvents Cloud MultiTenancy New category …

29.062012 140245 Low risk changeready SaaS delivers all the benefits of multitenancy with the security of separate databases … (more)

• TEC Accreditation UNIT4 Reinvents Cloud MultiTenancy

SLIEDRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS — (Marketwire) — 06/29/12 — UNIT4 (EURONEXT AMSTERDAM:UNIT4), a global business software group, announced today that its … (more)

• Google Compute Engine Is No Threat to Amazon, Microsoft, RackSpace

NetworkComputing.com The initial version of Google Compute Engine won’t take share from other IaaS providers in the cloud computing space like Amazon, Microsoft or Rackspace, which offer a wider variety of configurations that can support OSes that require more capacity … (more)

• The risks and rewards of cloud computing

Telegraph.co.uk … be doing business in the cloud? A: Businesses are increasingly investing in cloud computing services because they offer resources such as networks, servers, applications and data storage without having to directly manage the systems that deliver them. (more)

• Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) Releases Cloud-Computing Service, Known as …

U.S. Election News … most popular search engine Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced on Thursday that it released a cloud-computing service for building and running applications to assist woo customers and challenge Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)’s Web Services. (more)

• Customer Wins: Data Foundry, FORTRUST, ViaWest, Interxion

Data Center Knowledge Bazaarvoice Chooses Data Foundry for Infrastructure: Austin-based Bazaarvoice (NASDAQ: BV), a global Software-as-a-Service provider, has selected Data Foundry’s Texas 1 data center to house its core IT infrastructure. Bazaarvoice is a social software … (more)

• TEC Accreditation: UNIT4 Reinvents Cloud Multi-Tenancy

MarketWatch (press release) Its ‘pure cloud’ software-as-a-service (SaaS) deployment option has security and change features that are competitively unique – and advantageous – to organizations seeking low-cost business agility. The TEC accreditation report “UNIT4 Multi-Tenancy … (more)

• As clouds multiply, ComputeNext, a cloud marketplace emerges

GigaOM The company has raised about $2 million in funding, and has attracted many partners such as ScaleXtreme, a server automation software provider, NewVEM, a cloud analytics provider, and Cloudability, which offers cloud resource management, for its cloud … (more)

• VMware vCloud – Independent Reviews, Comparisons and More

VMware vCloud is a cloud computing environment offering virtual … VMware vCloud is one of the major technologies underlying many of today’s cloud start- ups. (more)

• Microsoft is Looking to the Clouds : TaxoDiary

By melody
Microsoft is seeking to move beyond infrastructure as a service (IaaS), through platform as a service (PaaS), past software as a service (SaaS) to foreign lands. Their ability to perform a virtual machine migration from one host to another, while … (more)

• Red Hat’s Jim Whitehurst is Placing Bets on PaaS, Virtualization and …

By Sam Dean
This week the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012 conference took place, and Red Hat delivered a number of new announcements. Red Hat’s OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, which gives developers tools and frameworks … (more)

• Taking on Amazon, Google launches EC2 rival Compute Engine …

By Om Malik
Google has offered many what it calls higher-level cloud services such Google storage, BigQuery and Google App Engine in the past, but now the company believes it needs to sell a more prosaic Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) offering whose primary target is attracting more developers to Google’s cloud platform. The news of this new service was first reported by my … The developers can run any stack and any software on this service. The company is partnering with third-party … (more)

• HP cloud plans focus on open source, management

Network World The interoperability, he says, is powered by HP’s leveraging of OpenStack, which he says is a “key foundational element” of the Converged Cloud infrastructure. Using the open source cloud deployment model as the building block of the offering, he says, … (more)

• RevUp Render Introduces V-Ray 2.0 Cloud Rendering for 3D Artists and

Architects Houston Chronicle The RevUp Render platform as a service (PAAS) for 3D software supporting distributed rendering on V-Ray 2.0 is a self-service platform, while the RevUp Render Revit rendering solution is a complete service with expert artists to convert Revit files for … (more)

• Mobile Devices, Vast Computing Power Open Cloud to More People Than Ever

eWeek GigaOM’s Structure 2012 Conference June 20 to 21 on the University of California San Francisco campus has rightfully gained a reputation for gathering deep thinkers and trendsetters in the cloud computing sector. Plenty of good inside information comes … (more)

• PaaS providers, ThroughPuter wants to parallelize your cloud

GigaOM A Jersey City, N.J.-startup called ThroughPuter has a message for the world’s cloud computing providers: Come talk to us, we can make your cloud fly for serious applications. The company, which recently presented at our Structure Launchpad competition, … (more)

• Former OS X chief working on cloud startup with other ex-Apple employees

Apple Insider Bertrand Serlet, formerly the head of OS X development at Apple, has reportedly been working with a cloud computing startup called “Upthere” since he left Apple last year. Serlet is working with at least two other former Apple employees at the company … (more)

• High Availability & Disaster Recovery for Apache CloudStack

High availability solutions by Cloud providers such as CloudStack and others has enabled big organizations to achieve this aim with reduced costs on hardware … (more)