Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 2, 2012
Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
- Global IT trade barriers threaten cloud, software providers
- VMware Communities: ipv6 support for Vcloud director 1.5
- People Are Getting REALLY Angry Over OpenStack, A Key Cloud …
- hpcloud-auth-openstack 1.0 : Python Package Index
- Rackspace Coming to a Full Circle with OpenStack Cloud Launch …
- Rackspace ‘expects to steal customers’ from Amazon with OpenStack
- Cloud Computing Has a Silver Lining for the Global Memory IC …
- HighJump TrueCommerce EDI Solutions Now Offers Web-Based EDI Integration …
- Multi-tenancy: are they selling you a pup?
- servicesource international
- Colorado Springs Selects EnerGov to Improve Economic Vitality and
- Rackspace spins up OpenStack — will other cloud vendors follow?
- Rackspace Moves OpenStack Product Lineup To Public Cloud
- Rackspace wolfs down own OpenStack dog food
- OpenStack goes public and starts fight for Cloudy hearts and minds
- List of Cloud-based Video Encoding Tools and Services
- Oracle’s Cloud Hype Set for Major Escalation
- Cloud Computing in Healthcare Expected to Grow
- Exclusive Cloud Computing Briefing Held In Nassau By Cloud Carib Ltd.
- Rackspace broadens cloud-computing offerings
- Rackspace Finally Goes Public with OpenStack Service
- Rackspace Open Cloud Takes on Amazon AWS
- CEO Dick Williams on Webroot’s big cloud gamble
- Palo Alto looks to use open data to embrace ‘city as a platform’
- Peoplefluent Announces Upcoming August Webinar Schedule
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)
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)
By Julie Bort
Someone sent threatening emails to a board candidate. (more)
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)
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)
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)
Despite suffering from significant oversupply problems, the global memory integrated circuits (IC) market will be driven on by data centers and (…) (more)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)