Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 2, 2012

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

  • Global IT trade barriers threaten cloud, software providers
  • ITworld.com Brady professed concern at the numerous instances of digital protectionism the BSA study outlined, warning, for instance, that restrictions on cross-border data flow threaten to roll back the gains in efficiency and computing capacity that cloud … (more)

  • VMware Communities: ipv6 support for Vcloud director 1.5
  • Hi does Vcloud director 1.5 supports ipv6 for its vapp and its networking capability such as create a ipv6 ipaddress pool if vshield is not being used. Thanks for … (more)

  • People Are Getting REALLY Angry Over OpenStack, A Key Cloud …
  • By Julie Bort
    Someone sent threatening emails to a board candidate. (more)

  • hpcloud-auth-openstack 1.0 : Python Package Index
  • hpcloud-auth-openstack 1.0. HP Cloud Auth Plugin for OpenStack Clients. This is a plugin for OpenStack Clients which provides client support for HP Cloud authentication extensions to OpenStack. It also provide default auth URL support. (more)

  • Rackspace Coming to a Full Circle with OpenStack Cloud Launch …
  • By Maria Deutscher
    OpenStack logo Monday was a big day for Rackspace . The web host is one of the founders of OpenStack, an open cloud platform project that it collaborated on with NASA and a few others two years ago. Now, several releases and hundreds … (more)

  • Rackspace ‘expects to steal customers’ from Amazon with OpenStack
  • By cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez
    Rackspace has announced that it will launch its open source infrastructure-as-a-service platform, OpenStack, in mid-August in the UK, where it has said that it ‘expects to steal customers’ from market incumbent Amazon Web Services. (more)

  • Cloud Computing Has a Silver Lining for the Global Memory IC …
  • Despite suffering from significant oversupply problems, the global memory integrated circuits (IC) market will be driven on by data centers and (…) (more)

  • HighJump TrueCommerce EDI Solutions Now Offers Web-Based EDI Integration …
  • EON: Enhanced Online News (press release) BUSINESS WIRE)–HighJump Software, a global provider of supply chain management software, announced that its TrueCommerce EDI Solutions Group now offers a web-based (Software-as-a-Service) version of its market-leading EDI solution for users of Sage … (more)

  • Multi-tenancy: are they selling you a pup?
  • Enterprise Irregulars By Phil Wainewright on August 1, 2012 When vendors step up and argue that
    multi-tenancy does, or doesn’t, matter, the most important question from a buyer’s … (more)

  • servicesource international
  • Businessweek It offers an integrated solution that consists of Service Revenue Intelligence Platform, a data warehouse of transactional, analytical, and industry data that provides insight into the business; service sales teams working under its customers’ brands … (more)

  • Colorado Springs Selects EnerGov to Improve Economic Vitality and
  • Citizen … MarketWatch (press release) DULUTH, GA, Aug 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — After a rigorous evaluation process Colorado Springs, CO has selected EnerGov Solutions, the industry’s leading provider of government software solutions, to provide support to the City’s growing … (more)

  • Rackspace spins up OpenStack — will other cloud vendors follow?
  • TechTarget Meanwhile, as OpenStack has developed, competitors such as Citrix Systems Inc.’s CloudStack have also gained a foothold in the market for cloud stack alternatives, which is a busy one. CloudStack is definitely a more complete, more mature and polished … (more)

  • Rackspace Moves OpenStack Product Lineup To Public Cloud
  • CRN In a step it believes will bring OpenStack cloud services to a much larger customer base, Rackspace on Wednesday moved its portfolio of new and updated OpenStack products out of private beta and into general availability, giving customers the ability … (more)

  • Rackspace wolfs down own OpenStack dog food
  • Register Rackspace Hosting, the service provider that helped launch the open source OpenStack cloud controller along with NASA’s Ames Research Center two years ago, has finally become its own OpenStack Fanatic. Rackspace has now gone live with the Nova … (more)

  • OpenStack goes public and starts fight for Cloudy hearts and minds
  • BusinessCloud9 The big fight is now on: Rackspace is going public with OpenStack-based services. It has been running a public beta service in the USA for some months but, starting in the US from today and the rest of the world in two week’s time, the service becomes … (more)

  • List of Cloud-based Video Encoding Tools and Services
  • ReelSEO Online Video News With the rise of software-as-a-service (SAAS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS) I thought it was about time we started compiling a list of web-based video encoding options. This is not a list … platform with any device, any video capabilities … (more)

  • Oracle’s Cloud Hype Set for Major Escalation
  • PCWorld Oracle’s emphasis on cloud computing isn’t going to wane anytime soon. To the contrary, on Thursday the vendor held the first in nearly 100 Cloud Builder Summit events scheduled for locations across the globe between now and December. Similar Articles: … (more)

  • Cloud Computing in Healthcare Expected to Grow
  • ADVANCE for Physician Assistants (blog) Across many different industries, cloud computing has already contributed to cutting costs, sharing information and increasing productivity. Now the cloud has its sights set on the healthcare industry. In 2011, cloud computing in healthcare was worth … (more)

  • Exclusive Cloud Computing Briefing Held In Nassau By Cloud Carib Ltd.
  • Virtual-Strategy Magazine Mariano Colon, System Engineer with Citrix for the Caribbean, presented the Citrix vision for the Executive of the Future, and discussed the cost savings and operational efficiencies organizations can realize through the latest cloud computing … (more)

  • Rackspace broadens cloud-computing offerings
  • FierceEnterpriseCommunications Internet-hosting service Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) expanded its portfolio of OpenStack-powered cloud products for enterprises, with Tuesday’s introduction of new open-source public-cloud offerings and a new control panel for management of cloud-based … (more)

  • Rackspace Finally Goes Public with OpenStack Service
  • Server Watch Rackspace is one of the original co-founders of OpenStack alongside NASA back in 2010. Over the last two years, more than 80 other organizations have joined the effort, including big names like IBM, Dell, Cisco, HP and AT&T. Yet despite the growing … (more)

  • Rackspace Open Cloud Takes on Amazon AWS
  • NetworkComputing.com Cloud computing platforms tend to lock customers into proprietary file formats and service APIs. Since there are few standards governing cloud computing, relying on an open source project like OpenStack means customers face fewer lock-in issues from … (more)

  • CEO Dick Williams on Webroot’s big cloud gamble
  • Computerworld In October of last year, the company stopped selling packaged software and moved to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. CEO Dick Williams says the switch improves the customer service model and takes the burden of managing updates off of the end … (more)

  • Palo Alto looks to use open data to embrace ‘city as a platform’
  • O’Reilly Radar Notably, the city chose to use Junar, a Chilean software company that raised $1.2 million dollars in funding in May 2012. Junar provides data access in the cloud through the software-as-a-service model. There’s now a more competitive marketplace for … (more)

  • Peoplefluent Announces Upcoming August Webinar Schedule
  • MarketWatch (press release) WHO:Peoplefluent(TM), offering a unique combination of best-of-breed mobile and Software as a Service (SaaS) suite solutions for Performance Management, Talent Management, Vendor Management and Workforce Compliance and Diversity. (more)