Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 8, 2012
Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
- The IT world’s love-hate relationship with OpenStack
- Benefits of cloud computing need to be better understood, says Conroy
- Cloud Computing: Samsung Slips on Its Own Banana Peel at Apple Trial
- More than half of all Australian companies spend more than 10% of IT
- Rackspace releases OpenStack for production … finally – Digital …
- Fujitsu offers one-stop VMware cloud-in-a-box
- Webcast: PaaS for Ops – Platform as a Service Magazine
- Take Woz Cloud Fears with a Grain of Salt
- CLOUD COVER: Tips on secure cloud computing
- BMC bolsters DevOps story with VaraLogix buy
- Is ‘cloud security’ an oxymoron?
- Cloud Computing: BMC Buys Another DevOps Start-Up
- Cloud Computing: OpenStack Hopes to Build a Challenge to Amazon
- CakePHP – Multi Tenancy / SaaS
- Enterprise Architecture | AirWatch
- Multi-Tenancy and Resource Management – blog*spot
- Kaazing’s New Platform as a Service (PaaS) Offers the Fastest, Most …
- Webcast: PaaS for Ops – Pitching Platform as a Service to Sysadmins
- eBay Using OpenStack Open Source Cloud and Nicira For Dev/Test …
- How Coursera, A Free Online Education Service, Will School Us All
- Domo Welcomes Doug Grounds as Vice President of Customer Success
- Kaazing’s New Platform as a ServicePaaS Offers the Fastest Most …
- Rackspace Rises 8% As OpenStack Rollout On Track
GigaOM OpenStack has had a great week with eBay coming out as a user and Rackspace rebranding around the open source cloud project, but life isn’t all good in OpenStack world. There are still plenty of questions over its governance and development models that … (more)
The Australian THE local IT industry has been urged to work with government to raise awareness of how cloud computing can help businesses compete better on the world stage. “Many people do not yet fully understand what the cloud is, what it does and what it can do,” … (more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) A slip by Samsung’s lawyer gave Apple the chance to introduce evidence into the patent infringement trial in San Francisco that Samsung wanted suppressed, evidence culled from Samsung’s own documents that Apple hinted it had before the trial began last … (more)
budgets … MarketWatch (press release) 53% of Australian companies using cloud computing services spend more than 10% of their total IT budget on cloud solutions or services, while 31% spend more than 20%. 70% of them will increase their cloud-based solutions budget significantly over the … (more)
OpenStack made headlines this week after one of its co-creators, Rackspace, has begun offering public cloud services based on the open source cloud software … (more)
V3.co.uk “We are differentiated in the market by offering vCloud director out of the box, and as part of the package we also offer a professional service which includes implementation of the hardware and software at customer sites, including startup of the … (more)
A couple of weeks ago, we had the pleasure of talking with James Governor of Redmonk, about Stackato. I mentioned the challenge we face in explaining t… (more)
Redmondmag.com (blog) Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s prediction this past weekend that cloud computing may cause “horrendous problems” has gone viral but with due respect to the visionary inventor of the Apple I and II PCs: take his fears with a grain of salt. Wozniak … (more)
Hindustan Times Last week Wired writer Mat Honan was subject to an epic hacking attack that took over his Google account, compromised his Twitter account and led to his AppleID account being accessed and used to remotely wipe both his iPhone and his iPad. On August 5 … (more)
GigaOM Traditional systems management companies like BMC and CA are trying to get better at automating and managing the trickier and more dynamic world of cloud computing deployments. Last year BMC bought StreamStep for enterprise application delivery, … (more)
ExtremeTech On the positive side, cloud computing has opened up a whole new world of productivity that didn’t fully exist before services like Google Docs and Office 365 came into view. On a more personal scale, the cloud flipped the entertainment industry on its … (more)
SYS-CON Media (press release) BMC just bought Varalogix, a two-year-old self-funded start-up and near neighbor located in Austin, Texas, where BMC has acquired a couple of other DevOps companies in the last couple of years that mesh with its latest prize. Varalogix and its purpose … (more)
Formtek Blog (blog) OpenStack, the Open Source software for building out cloud infrastructure, has recently passed the two year milestone. While OpenStack is not the only option for creating a cloud (alternatives include CloudStack, Eucalyptus and VMWare’s vCloud Director … (more)
Multi Tenancy / SaaS. Hello I’m currently building a SaaS application using cakePHP. I’ve worked with cakePHP before a few times and I’m comfortable with … (more)
Our multi-tenancy allows your organization to centrally manage a complex mobile deployment with unique requirements for business units, locations, user or … (more)
Multi-Tenancy and Resource Management. As my association turns 24years today with the computer software; most of the past year I have spent on Oracle … (more)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–As the legacy Web has quickly morphed into today’s Living Web, users have become more demanding of online … (more)
Webcast: PaaS for Ops – Pitching Platform as a Service to Sysadmins. Troy Topnik, August 7, 2012. Stackato for Sysadmins A couple of weeks ago, we had the … (more)
By Matt Weinberger
The OpenStack open source cloud platform has a major e-commerce backer in its corner, now that eBay’s gone public with details of its implementation, as InfoWorld reports. Of special note: Even though eBay is using OpenStack specifically … (more)
Fast Company He was taking a free class in machine learning offered by Andrew Ng, a professor at Stanford University, over an online platform Ng developed with his colleagues. Machine learning is an emerging discipline of …. At around the same time, Ng was … (more)
Equities.com 8, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today Domo, a new software-as-a-service (SaaS) venture started by Omniture co-founder and former CEO Josh James to redefine the business intelligence (BI) market, announced the appointment of Doug Grounds as vice president … (more)
Kaazing’s new platform as a service (PaaS), offers the fastest, most reliable, and most efficient mobile Web experience. Full Security and scalability. (more)
Investor’s Business Daily Rackspace aims to make OpenStack, open-source programming code that runs servers, a cloud computing standard. Its stock had tumbled since May on concern over Rackspace’s ability to smoothly convert its own data centers to OpenStack and how soon … (more)