Daily Cloud Feed – Apr 19, 2012
This is a daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware.
- Sizzling open vs. proprietary debate heats up the cloud
- Cloud computing: Five reasons why it won’t face a backlash …
- Eucalyptus rakes in $30M, keeps open cloud battle interesting …
- Software-as-a-service market booming
- How SoftLayer Uses GPUs to Enable High Performance Cloud Computing
- DEMO Spring 2012 Conference Opens, Defining Future of Mobile, Enterprise,
- VMware vCloud Director Secure Private Clouds Infrastructure as a …
- Stream Group Builds Business Growth and Customer Success on Mendix App
- Want a store inside your video player? Cinsay can do that
- STAR WARS: The Old Republic – Being a good Software as a Service …
- Dell Partners With Mirantis For OpenStack Cloud Services
- Aruvio Takes the Complexity Out of GRC Software
- The AWS Software Store
- Introduction to CloudStack
- ATEN and US Micro Showcasing Cloud Computing Solution at Cloud Fair 2012
- Joyent Unveils Joyent Cloud Europe to Meet Customer Demand and Deliver …
- Cloud Computing Company iomart Group Crowned Scottish PLC of the Year
- Fine tuning your software
- Dachis Group Launches Content Insight Functionality on Social
- Understanding the different roles in a cloud computing setup
- Alert Logic Threat Manager(TM) for Amazon EC2 Now Available on AWS
- OpenStack gains appeal with Puppet Labs integration
- Software as a Service – O3 World | Blog
- OpenStack Surprises Involve Hyper-V, Solid State
- OpenStack(TM) Users Reap Economic and Performance Benefits of Automation
- HP to certify Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for its Proliant servers
- Amazon Muscles Up in the Cloud with New Partner Program
- Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting as a Service
- Zend Builds on Relationship with Amazon Web Services, Makes Zend
- Netelligent Offers Virtual Desktops as a Service
- Puppet equipped to be OpenStack interface
- GigaSpaces Continues Investment in OpenStack, Extending Cloudify to the
- Is cloud computing just a cloud of pollution?
- What to consider before signing up for Google Drive
- Dearth of Cloud Computing Skills Finally Being Addressed
- NCR shifting to more profitable businesses
CIO Magazine The most recent round really picked up a few weeks ago when Citrix announced it would bring its CloudStack cloud building platform to the Apache Software Foundation, creating a competing model to OpenStack. Before that, OpenStack had been gaining … (more)
By Mark Samuels
Even the inexorable rise of outsourcing met with resistance, but IT experts seem to think cloud computing will escape a similar negative reaction. (more)
By Barb Darrow
Cloud computing startup Eucalyptus has snagged $30 million in Series C funding for its open-source software that lets users build private clouds akin to the Amazon Web Services public cloud. Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) led the new … (more)
Colorado Springs Gazette Internet-hosted software companies, called software-as-a-service providers, have greater initial cash requirements than traditional software firms so they can build up the information-technology infrastructure needed to offer their applications through … (more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) By David Strom Hosting company SoftLayer to offer a new high-performance
cloud computing service that combines Intel’s ES-2600 Sandy Bridge servers with one or two of Nvidia’s Tesla M2090. More than five years ago, the fastest supercomputers were just … (more)
and … MarketWatch (press release) SANTA CLARA, CA, Apr 18, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — The DEMO Spring 2012 Conference, world-renowned for launching the most innovative companies in enterprise, mobile, cloud computing, consumer, social media and disruptive technologies, … (more)
Build secure private clouds with VMware vCloud Director and increase business agility while maintaining security and control. Try it free for 60 days. (more)
Platform PR Web (press release) Mendix, a leading provider in the application Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS) market, announced exceptional business growth and customer success among its expanding partner channel. UK software development specialist Stream Group has seen an annual … (more)
VentureBeat Cinsay, which launched its Smart Container Software as a Service (SaaS) product today at the 2012 DEMO Spring event, wants to simplify the aforementioned process. The Smart Container service gives clients a way to put the online store inside the video … (more)
Being a good Software as a Service provider means more than being a good developer General Discussion. (more)
CRN By Jack McCarthy, CRN Dell has entered into a partnership with engineering
firm Mirantis to help businesses and organizations migrate their IT resources to the cloud using Dell’s OpenStack cloud services. Mirantis, of Mountain View, Calif., … (more)
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) AruvioGRC is delivered as software-as-a-service on the Salesforce.com platform. AruvioGRC breaks new grounds for GRC software in ease-of-use, speed-to-setup, and cost. AruvioGRC is free to try at www.aruvio.com. Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) … (more)
New York Times (blog) The offering, which appears to be something of a blend of the software as a service, or SaaS, business of companies like Salesforce.com and NetSuite, and the mobile app stores popularized by Apple and Google. Like SaaS, customers are renting their … (more)
This presentation is the introduction to the monthly CloudStack.org demonstration . The presentation details the latest features in the CloudStack open source pr. (more)
San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Cloud Fair 2012 is Three-Day Cloud Computing Conference Held in Seattle Foothill Ranch, CA (PRWEB) April 18, 2012 ATEN today announced that it is exhibiting and showcasing new cloud technology at this week’s Cloud Fair 2012 with partner US Micro, Inc., … (more)
MarketWatch (press release) AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS and SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Apr 19, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Joyent, a global provider of cloud computing software and services, today unveiled Joyent Cloud Europe, an extension of the US-based Joyent Cloud that will … (more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) The Glasgow-headquartered cloud computing company also picked up a second major award, for AIM/Mid-sized Cap of the Year. Angus MacSween, CEO of iomart Group plc, said: “This is fantastic recognition for everyone at iomart who has worked so hard to … (more)
Chiropractic Economics Making small, strategic adjustments can help you get the most from your Software-as-a-Service applications. By Eric Richard If you’re like many chiropractors, you’ve either entertained the idea of incorporating a Software-as- a-Service (SaaS) … (more)
Performance … MarketWatch (press release) The new Content Insight capability is now available to customers of Dachis Group’s Social Performance Monitor software-as-a-service (SaaS) product. To learn more about Content Insight and Dachis Group’s Social Performance Monitor capabilities, … (more)
CloudTweaks News The cloud service provider owns and controls the cloud computing platform. The services include SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a Service), IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and IpaaS (Integration Platform as a Service). (more)
Marketplace MarketWatch (press release) HOUSTON, Apr 19, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — Alert Logic, a leader in delivering Security-as-a-Service for the cloud, today announced that Alert Logic Threat Manager for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is among the first security solutions … (more)
TechTarget IT pros are still kicking the tires on OpenStack and its rivals, but Puppet Labs throwing its weight behind OpenStack give some cloud shops more reason to choose the open source platform. OpenStack’s most recent iteration, codenamed Essex, was released … (more)
In last week’s post, we reviewed a simple approach to defining installed software versus software-as-a-service and looked at some examples. In this post, we are … (more)
InformationWeek By Charles Babcock InformationWeek One measure of how fast the OpenStack
open source code project has gained mindshare is the appearance of two developments that few in the OpenStack community thought likely or even possible. (more)
with … MarketWatch (press release) CORK, Ireland, Apr 19, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — MPSTOR ( www.mpstor.com ) today announced Provizo, the first open-platform SAN management plug-in for OpenStack(TM). Provizo is a scale-out Elastic Block Storage (EBS) solution that automates the discovery … (more)
ExtremeTech By Ray Walters on April 19, 2012 at 9:00 am Mark Shuttleworth has announced
at the OpenStack conference that Canonical has received a ringing endorsement from HP in the form of certification for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on the ProLiant server systems. (more)
OStatic (blog) Citrix’s CloudStack, OpenStack and Eucalyptus Systems are developing into flexible, well supported alternatives to proprietary platforms. And now Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is undoubtedly the 800-pound gorilla in terms of cloud platforms, … (more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) This term ‘Industry SaaS’ can be interchangeably used with BpaaS (Business Process as a Service). However, the term ‘Industry SaaS’ meaning a Software as a Service meant for a specific industry is stressed for wider attention, as the term BpaaS has yet … (more)
Application … MarketWatch (press release) CUPERTINO, Calif., April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Zend, the PHP Company, today announced that Zend Application Fabric, the industry-leading, enterprise-ready Platform as a Service (PaaS) for PHP apps, is now available on Amazon Web Services … (more)
Campus Technology The Netelligent service runs on Desktone’s DaaS platform to provide users with secure access to cloud-based virtual desktops. The virtual desktops run the Windows 7 operating system, and users can access them on their tablet, smart phone, laptop, … (more)
Puppet Labs has equipped its namesake open-source configuration management software with the ability to control OpenStack cloud deployments, the … (more)
New … MarketWatch (press release) With these partnerships, Cloudify expands its support of the OpenStack Open Elastic Platform initiative and users ability to on-board mission-critical applications in a new public cloud environment. “Until recently, OpenStack wasn’t really available on … (more)
Digitaltrends.com Is cloud computing really bad for the environment? What can tech firms do to minimize their impact? And what’s Greenpeace’s agenda here? Greenpeace’s report ranks 14 technology companies on seven criteria. The first three criteria focus on energy … (more)
ITworld.com By Lucas Mearian, Computerworld | Cloud Computing 1 comment Just as with an
Apple product launch, Google has had to do next to nothing to create buzz around its long-awaited Google Drive cloud storage service. The latest: Google Drive will launch next … (more)
Midsize Insider The explosion of cloud computing over the past few years has brought a true revolution to the world of IT, especially for businesses that previously lacked the resources to take advantage of the latest trends in computing. However, this explosion has … (more)
Atlanta Journal Constitution In addition to selling hardware like ATMs and self-checkout machines, NCR is moving further into the business of selling software as a service. The company is rolling out a new product for retailers called NCR Silver that Nuti called a game-changer. (more)