Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 16, 2012
Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
- Schafer: Trucking software firm takes a new road
- No Disaster Recovery Plan? No Excuse
- CloudStack Blog
- Rackspace OpenStack-Based Private Cloud Software Available for Free
- VMware: Rethink IT: Try your own vCloud in minutes
- VMware Launches Evaluation Service, Enabling vCloud Test Drive …
- Cloud Server Dashboard achieves VMware Powered status
- Cloud Computing: No Longer Experimental Technology, but a Tool for
- Mule ESB 3.3 Release and CloudHub
- Quest Lights Foglight APM for Azure Apps
- Cloud Confex to highlight evolution and opportunities in field of cloud …
- Iomart Group PLC Acquisition of Melbourne Server Hosting
- Configuring vCloud Director 1.5 and MS SQL 2008 R2 to Use a …
- VMware Offering Free Test Drives for vCloud | NewsFactor Network
- PLUMgrid brings on Cisco vet for network virtualization push – GigaOM
- VMware Offers vCloud ‘Test-Drive’ with New Evaluation Service
- VMware, Rackspace offer free or low-cost cloud trials
- Watch the Video: Building an Open Source Platform as a Service …
- The Frager Factor: Hot Software as a Service (SaaS) App Named …
- New Business Sales Executive, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and …
- Understanding App.net: It’s Microblogging As a Service
- A Round of Applause for Adobe’s Creative Cloud
- VMware Offering Free Test Drives for vCloud
- VMware lets you take vClouds out for a spin
- Alternet (ALYI) Subsidiary and Partner Expand Cloud Based Mobile
- Rackspace Private Cloud: Instant OpenStack
- Cloud Computing And E-Discovery: Maximum Gain, Minimum Cost
- Taxachusetts Releases Ruling on Taxability of Cloud Computing
- Eval Service Lets Users Take VMware vCloud for a Test Drive
Minneapolis Star Tribune Now he is betting a 27-year-old electronics company on mobile device software sold as a service. But it’s not really that … Before joining the company, Coughlan was the CEO of Lawson Software in St. Paul, serving in that role as it came public in … (more)
InformationWeek (blog) As Ctera CEO Rani Osnat puts it, the portal software, which is typically deployed by software-as-a-service providers or ISPs, acts as middleware between data locally stored on a Ctera appliance, which otherwise looks like a standard NAS box, and cloud … (more)
Discussion on the state of cloud computing and open source software that helps build, manage, and deliver infrastructure-as-a-service. (more)
eWeek Rackspace officials said the software is based on the company’s experience in deploying and operating OpenStack-based public and private clouds in a variety of environments, including in Rackspace’s own data centers as well as in external data centers. (more)
Today, we’re announcing that we’re introducing a new service that allows you to get your own vCloud IaaS service in minutes, called vCloud Service Evaluation. We heard from many customers that they came to vmware.com to learn more … (more)
By Justin Lee
August 15, 2012 — Cloud infrastructure provider VMware announced on Wednesday it has launched the vCloud Service Evaluation, an online service for customers… (more)
Bizcommunity.com Vox Telecom’s Cloud Server Dashboard public cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, a move that will allow the company’s customers to enjoy all the advantages of third party cloud services, while maintaining full control over their IT … (more)
Innovation News Pakistan Increasingly, leading-edge companies are turning to cloud computing to shift the competitive stakes in their favor. They’re crafting new ways of weaving cloud computing throughout their organizations to transform internal operations, re-imagine product … (more)
InfoQ.com Combined with an upgraded Mule Studio tool, Mule ESB 3.3 offers the ESB suite for integrating on-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS) and custom applications. The new …. InfoQ: What are the emerging trends in Integration Platform as a Service space? (more)
Dr. Dobb’s Quest Software has introduced its Foglight for Windows Azure Applications application performance monitoring (APM) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering in beta form. For developers, this could mean … the business,” said Rosenberg. Microsoft’s Azure … (more)
AME Info As increasing numbers of organisations across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region prepare to embrace working without traditional infrastructural limitations, Gitex Technology Week 2012 is set to make its biggest impact in cloud computing to date. (more)
Wall Street Journal Acquisition of Melbourne Server Hosting Ltd (“Melbourne”). iomart Group plc, the cloud computing company, is pleased to announce the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Melbourne for a maximum cash consideration of up to (GBP)7.0 million. (more)
JDBC doesn’t seem to be able to handle dynamic ports, at least with MS SQL 2008 R2 and vCloud Director 1.51, so we either have to add a secondary network … (more)
For IT directors still wary about cloud computing, VMware may have a solution. Their new vCloud Service Evaluation lets you test-drive and experiment with a … (more)
By Barb Darrow
As it preps its go-to-market plans, the semi-stealthy startup brings another former Cisco product whiz aboard to lead engineering. Lele Nardin spent 15 years at the networking leader and was most recently SVP of engineering at Ericsson … (more)
Equities.com The vCloud Service Evaluation will provide a quick and easy way for users to learn about the advantages of a vCloud through hands-on testing and experimentation. It also will provide a simple way to see VMware vCloud Director software in action and … (more)
Network World Red Hat’s and Rackspace’s offerings help users build private clouds based on the OpenStack software code, while VMware is offering a free trial version of its vCloud software, which allows access to public cloud resources. The moves signal an effort by … (more)
For the past few months, Krishna Raman and I have been giving a really fun presentation called … (more)
Fast-moving software developer who features only the name Lettuce in their logo, settles for Lettuceapps.com because Lettuce.com was taken by Foxy Lettuce. (more)
Finlay James Associates is hiring! View and apply for the New Business Sales Executive, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Hosted Solutions Job at Finlay … (more)
The key is not to view App.net as a Twitter clone, but as a service like Dropbox or … We’re already seeing third party applications built on this platform, such as a … (more)
PC Magazine Anyone who reads me regularly knows that I am not a huge fan of cloud computing and its implications. I’m even less enamored by the idea of paying a monthly fee to use my word processor. That said, I must admit that Adobe may have found the sweet spot. (more)
NewsFactor Network Analyst Zeus Kerravala says the new offering from VMware is a smart move, considering the perceived risk in deploying clouds. “Part of the risk is spending the dollars on the cloud and ending up with an unknown value proposition,” Kerravala said. With … (more)
Register VMware is starting out with a basic VM on the vCloud trial service that has one virtual CPU and 1GB of virtual memory and which costs 4 cents per hour to run tests on. You can dynamically scale each VM up in increments of virtual CPUs and gigabyte … (more)
Payments … Broadcast Newsroom MIAMI, FL — (Marketwire) — 08/16/12 — Alternet Systems Inc. (OTCQB: ALYI) today announced that its partner Utiba, leading provider of mobile financial service solutions, is expanding its Software as a Service (SaaS) offering worldwide. Launched … (more)
NetworkComputing.com Cloudscaling, Piston Cloud Computing and Stackops offer automated OpenStack installation products, as well as features such as security hardening, high-availability and load balancing. Many of the open source Linux distributions, such as Fedora, SUSE … (more)
Metropolitan Corporate Counsel Cloud computing’s cost savings and quick return on investment is frequently making headlines in many sectors, including legal.[1] With litigation and e-discovery on the rise, it’s important to cut costs without sacrificing quality, and cloud computing … (more)
BostInno (blog) The Massachusetts Department of Revenue recently released another ruling on the application of the Massachusetts sales tax to cloud computing services. Massachusetts generally imposes a 6.25% sales tax on sales of tangible personal property that is … (more)
TalkinCloud (blog) The new service isn’t free, but it’s not far from it, either. VMware is pricing the vCloud Service Evaluation at a whopping 4 cents per hour for a Linux VM with 1GB of RAM. Hopefully that’s enough for businesses to get a taste of vCloud and decide for … (more)