Daily Cloud Feed – Aug 9, 2012
Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
- RealEstate.com back as referral network
- Equation Technologies Expands Solution Portfolio with BambooHR
- eBay implements OpenStack with Nicira
- Rackspace profits from cloudy transitions
- Here’s the cloud computing setup that let you watch Curiosity land …
- From Cloud Computing to Virtualization | Cloud Computing Journal
- Welcome Shawn Madden, our new Sales … – Piston Cloud Computing
- Fujitsu puts the cloud into a box
- Re: CloudStack development environment – Mail Archives
- Logicworks upgrades its public cloud platform
- Is Cloud Computing Really Cheaper? – Forbes
- Openstack Networking | Scalability and Multitenancy with VlanManager
- Sidetrade: Strong contribution of Cloud computing model, +23% SaaS revenues
- Consumer Cloud Computing: The New Battleground
- TM unit VADS sees cloud computing driving growth this year
- Rackspace Offers New Cloud Services Based on OpenStack
- Negotiating Tips On Software-As-A-Service Contracts …
- vCloud Director Constantly Syncing Inventory | my life as an …
- Rackspace OpenStack: Customers want build-you-own-cloud options
- Rackspace CEO: OpenStack is opportunity to join big-boys’ club
- Cloud connectors gain traction in enterprise application integration
- Fujitsu boxes up private cloud
- jiraCommentedLEGAL144 Request for permission for CloudStack to …
- NASA uses Amazon’s cloud computing in Mars landing mission
- Recent cloud critics, including Wozniak, intensify debate
- eBay Deploys OpenStack Cloud For R&D
- Cloud Strategy Critical for Business, Financial Success
- Cloud-One Rational Consulting Market Responds to Demand as IBM Sets …
- OpenStack Community By The Numbers
- Rackspace Roars On Q2 Revenue, ‘OpenStack’ Outlook
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Sacramento Bee 8, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Equation Technologies (http://www.equationtech.com) announced today that it has added BambooHR to its cloud-based, Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions portfolio. BambooHR is a human resource management system … (more)
sourcingfocus.com OpenStack proved to be attractive to eBay in developing its cloud offering, in part because of the software’s ability to integrate with Nicira Network Virtualization Platform. This integration allows for eBay to numbers deploy large numbers of virtual … (more)
Register Rackspace Hosting, which co-founded the OpenStack cloud controller effort with NASA two years ago, was bragging last week that it had finally went live with OpenStack on the compute side. But the funny bit is, as Tuesday’s results show, that business … (more)
By Derrick Harris
We previously detailed the test architecture that NASA built to ensure the live stream of the Curiosity landing could handle traffic, and now Amazon Web Services is showing what the final architecture looked like. NASA scaled up its test build … (more)
Cloud Computing Journal: Forrester’s James Staten: “Not everything will move to the cloud as there are many business processes, data sets and workflows that require specific hardware or proprietary solutions that can’t take advantage of … (more)
By Piston Cloud Staff
shawn-madden. Introducing Piston Cloud’s newest addition: Sales Engineer, Shawn Madden. Shawn will be working closely with our sales team, covering all things technology to help close deals and engage with Piston Cloud customers. (more)
ChannelBiz The company’s Dynamic Infrastructures for VMware vCloud, is said to combine Fujitsu servers and storage, Brocade networking and VMware virtualisation and cloud management technology into a single pre-configured stack. Fujitsu claims that this package … (more)
Subject, Re: CloudStack development environment. Date, Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09: 43:42 GMT. Hi Edison, thank you for your feedback, but ever if I don’t continue … (more)
Computer Business Review Logicworks cloud is built on Citrix’s CloudStack platform and is backed by enterprise monitoring tools from ScienceLogic and non-commodity storage from EMC Isilon. The new public cloud platform now comes integrated with Logicworks’ new managed … (more)
“Is Cloud Computing really cheaper?” Of all the questions asked at a recent event , this particular one was the most difficult to answer. Earlier this week I was at … (more)
VlanManager helps scale internal and public OpenStack clouds. It uses vlans to partition a physical network into distinct broadcast domains. (more)
Reuters The product mix bias towards Cloud computing has resulted in stronger growth in this area, in contrast with services revenues (implementation, training, consultancy, business process outsourcing). The Group advised of this development in the … (more)
Virtual-Strategy Magazine blueocean, a market intelligence company, conducts a comprehensive study across India, US & Germany to reveal consumer awareness and fears of cloud computing. India scores lowest on cloud readiness index – low IT penetration and poor IT infrastructure … (more)
Malaysia Star KUALA LUMPUR: Telekom Malaysia Bhd’s unit VADS Bhd expects its ICT services, namely cloud computing and telepresence offerings, to drive its business growth this year. VADS chief executive officer Ahmad Azhar Yahya said as the ICT and business … (more)
CloudTimes Rackspace Logo 300×84 Rackspace Offers New Cloud Services Based on OpenStack After a trial period of four months, Rackspace has just introduced its Open Cloud platform based on OpenStack, which could be defined something like a cloud version of … (more)
By Florence
Negotiating Tips On Software-As-A-Service Contracts More often than not, people don’t ask questions. However, when it comes to negotiating a SaaS contract, (more)
I’ve run into a situation more than once where from within vCloud Director a vCenter Server is constantly ‘Syncing inventory’ as shown in the below screen. (more)
TechTarget Rackspace is finally rolling out OpenStack-based cloud services to its customers. The cloud provider hopes the freedom offered by the open source platform, which contrasts sharply with the proprietary back-end systems of providers like Amazon Web … (more)
DatacenterDynamics Rackspace sees OpenStack, the open-source cloud architecture and operating system the company has developed together with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as its ticket to the cloud market’s big leagues, which consists of … (more)
TechTarget Large companies today depend on their enterprise applications, such as SAP and other enterprise resource planning software, to run smoothly. Increasingly, other business units require Software as a Service or cloud-based software to do such things as … (more)
BusinessCloud9 Fujitsu has pulled together a package of its own servers and storage systems, Brocade networking and VMware vCloud virtualisation and Cloud management technology to create Dynamic Infrastructures for VMware, a private Cloud `in a box’ initially pitched … (more)
Subject, jiraCommentedLEGAL144 Request for permission for CloudStack to distribute secondary convenience builds containing libvirtjavaLGPL … (more)
Los Angeles Times Although it boasts having “Earth’s biggest selection,” Amazon.com’s reach has stretched to Mars. Better known for being an e-commerce giant, Amazon has become a major player in cloud computing, with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory using the … (more)
Network World Cloud computing has taken some heat this week. First, over the weekend Apple co-founder and tech icon Steve Wozniak said he’s worried about the “horrendous” problems cloud computing could cause as users yield control of their data to service providers. (more)
InformationWeek OpenStack has gotten a lot of attention as an open source cloud-computing framework. It was originally developed at NASA, and has attracted support from a number of the tech world’s heavy hitters, including IBM, Dell, and Red Hat. Rackspace is using it … (more)
Billing World A new survey of senior financial executives at U.S. companies reveals that cloud computing is likely to have a significant impact on their businesses in the very near future. The study by CFO Research, and sponsored by Google, shows that three quarters … (more)
Virtual-Strategy Magazine As demand for Cloud computing steadily increases, IBM sets ambitious Cloud revenue target for 2015, and concerns over software change management spur an unprecedented increase in the complementary software consulting market. New York, NY … (more)
There are lot of questions about whether OpenStack Community can be truly vendor neutral. The OpenStack Foundation Board has three tiers (see my previous … (more)
Investor’s Business Daily Rackspace, which sells cloud computing services, appears on track transitioning to OpenStack software in its data centers, analysts said. Rackspace aims to make OpenStack, open-source programming code for software that runs servers in data centers, … (more)