Daily Cloud Feed – May 2, 2012

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

  • Infinitely Virtual Adds VMware s vCloud Director To Its Hosting …
  • Infinitely Virtual adds VMware s vCloud Director to its hosting platform and gives organizations more self-service options when they need to quickly reconfigure … (more)

  • VMTurbo expands cloud support with Operations Manager 3.1
  • V3.co.uk The company said that the the 3.1 update for the platform would bring support for CloudStack as well as the addition of an application delivery controller. Based on the company’s Economic Scheduling Engine (ESE) platform, Operations Manager uses an … (more)

  • Piston to Integrate Cloud Foundry & OpenStack | Cloud Computing …
  • Piston Cloud Computing, the start-up peddling an OpenStack distribution for enterprise private clouds, is co-operating with VMware of all people to develop a Cloud Provider Interface (CPI) that integrates OpenStack cloud infrastructure with … (more)

  • Accounting Software as a Service | LinkedIn
  • Software as a Service has come to a point to offer a large variety of applications. In its beginning it was all about simple functions, since vendors weren’t too sure … (more)

  • How to use Juniper as firewall in CloudStack 2.2.14???
  • 5 days ago … hi all I use juniper in my cloudstack 2.2.14 When I create the vm , I got the log like below: … (more)

  • Red Hat makes OpenShift cloud platform open source | Cloud …
  • By feedback@zdnet.co.uk (Editors)
    Red Hat has made its OpenShift platform-as-a-service open source. Image credit: Red Hat. The software maker posted the OpenShift Origin code on Monday for free download under the Apache Licence v2. OpenShift, which automates many … (more)

  • Innovative Group Management Service AllPlayers.com Joins Forces …
  • By admin
    Founded in 2009, AllPlayers.com was started by parents, coaches and community leaders, who sought to fix a technology void by establishing a free and open-source platform that enabled any group to efficiently organize, advertise, manage registration, communicate and schedule activities online. AllPlayers.com released this free software-as-a-service group management system in 2010, and today has organizations and users in across the globe. AllPlayers.com is a COPPA … (more)

  • How green are cloud computing companies?
  • Tehelka Does using cloud computing technology lead to reduced carbon emissions? Apparently not, says a Greenpeace report’ Many IT companies that are rapidly building their cloud are actually compromising with the type of energy that is being used, … (more)

  • VMware Advances VMware View(TM) and End-User Computing Solutions for the
  • Post … MarketWatch (press release) … delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iv) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures, industry consolidation, entry of new competitors into the virtualization and cloud computing markets, and new product … (more)

  • IBM Unveils Software With Capabilities On Social Media, Cloud Computing
  • AllAfrica.com The solution, according to IBM was designed to help organizations quickly begin incorporating the collaborative and intelligent capabilities of social media, mobile computing and cloud computing into their enterprise applications. (more)

  • CallidusCloud Launches CLOUD Pass(TM) Learning Platform
  • MarketWatch (press release) PLEASANTON, CA, May 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Callidus Software Inc. (NASDAQ:CALD) , the leader in sales effectiveness and cloud computing, announced today that it launched its new CLOUD (Continuous Learning On User Demand) Pass(TM) Learning … (more)

  • Kenandy, Inc. Announces Cloud ERP for Product Companies
  • MarketWatch (press release) CHICAGO, IL, May 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Kenandy, Inc. today announced release 2.0 of Kenandy(TM) Social ERP, the first cloud ERP built entirely on Force.com, salesforce.com’s social enterprise cloud computing platform specifically for … (more)

  • Arista Networks Showcases Software Defined Cloud Networking With SDN …
  • MarketWatch (press release) The partner integration demonstrations at Interop 2012 and Interopnet in Las Vegas are: VMware auto provisioning with VMware SDN controller, OpenStack Nova integration with Nebula, and Big Switch Network’s OpenFlow controller. (more)

  • Symplified Introduces Identity as a Service Platform for Cloud Service
  • Providers MarketWatch (press release) Symplified Structure is an instantiation of Symplified’s core platform that unifies identity management, access control, auditing, and user provisioning across existing public/private cloud services and SaaS marketplaces. This fully embedded offering … (more)

  • Collaboration vendor Jive aims for app adoption without pestering IT
  • Network World The applications are delivered either on-premise or through a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud offering and include a variety of use cases, but center around the idea of a social intranet. “The last few years have been characterized by early adopters … (more)

  • Red Hat releases OpenShift source code
  • Network World By Sophie Curtis, TechWorld Open source software distributor Red Hat has
    released the source code for its OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, allowing developers to run the platform on multiple cloud fabrics, including OpenStack. (more)

  • Convirture Updates Virtualization and Cloud Management Software
  • GlobeNewsWire (press release) Support for CloudStack will be available in an update to the software that is planned for the third quarter of this year. ConVirt Enterprise Cloud also is also now certified to run on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. The company also released ConVirt 2.1 Open Source, … (more)

  • NextPrinciples a Winner at SugarCon 2012 App Throwdown
  • MarketWatch (press release) This key event has been traditionally used to showcase advanced technologies — here, NextPrinciples demonstrated the power of its platform by integrating its award winning Insight-to-Action Software as a Service (SaaS) offering with the fastest … (more)

  • Jive First Launches Next Generation Platform In Cloud
  • InformationWeek Jive Software is launching the next generation of its enterprise social networking platform to cloud customers first, and for the first time offering a 30-day free trial for customers who sign up online. The new Jive for Teams cloud service will be the … (more)

  • Gale Technologies Announces GaleForce Turnkey Cloud is a Validated
  • Management … Houston Chronicle Cisco and NetApp have tested and passed the GaleForce Turnkey Cloud Software as a FlexPod validated management solution. Gale Technologies, a leading provider of innovative software solutions that power Infrastructure as a Service for the lab, … (more)

  • Organize your Accounting with LedgerDocs Online Document Management Software
  • San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) May 02, 2012 Online accounting and bookkeeping services provider LedgersOnline Inc. announced their new online document management software as a service offering, LedgerDocs. LedgerDocs is a cloud based system for the storage, … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: MMI Gets Toothless Injunction Against Microsoft
  • SYS-CON Media (press release) By Maureen O’Gara In what FOSS Patents calls the “most anticipated German
    patent ruling ever,” the Mannheim Regional Court Wednesday gave Motorola Mobility the permanent injunction it was looking for against Windows 7, Internet Explorer, Windows Media … (more)

  • New book on cloud computing helps organisations develop a cloud programme
  • Einnews Portugal /EINPresswire.com/ ‘Cloud Computing’ are the words on everyone’s lips – it’s the latest technology, the way forward and has many benefits – but how safe is it? Is it reliable? How secure will your information be? Just what are the risks associated with … (more)

  • Arista teams with VMware, Big Switch, Nebula for SDNs
  • Network World Arista will also show integration with the Nebula controller through the OpenStack Nova APIs. OpenStack is an open-source framework for a cloud computing operating system. Arista plans to also demonstrate integration with Big Switch’s controller … (more)

  • An emerging cloud trend: Solution-as-a-service? | TechRepublic
  • On top of IaaS lies PaaS’s, that is, Platform-as-a-Service, which conceptually are operating systems on the cloud. They abstract the hardware from the … (more)

  • Plenty of Room for both OpenStack and CloudStack
  • Virtualization Review There is plenty of room for both OpenStack and CloudStack to survive and thrive. It’s easy to lose sight of the fact that competition is what drives innovation and quality. Competition makes markets. In the arms race for cloud, there’s room for both … (more)

  • Pinning the Cloud: Pinterest, Cloud Computing and the Environment …
  • Pinterest is quickly growing and using cloud servers to host all of those new pins, but what is the real footprint of this and what could make it better? (more)