Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 10, 2012

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

  • Cloud management gets muddied with VMware vCloud Automation Center
  • TechTarget In addition to the re-introduction to the market of DynamicOps as vCloud Automation Center, VMware will roll out updates to its vCloud Connector, vCenter Operations Management Suite and vFabric Application Director under the mantle of the VMware vCloud … (more)

  • VMworld: VMware updates vCloud Suite, adds Hyper-V support
  • V3.co.uk BARCELONA: VMware only announced its vCloud Suite in August, but the firm is already updating the platform with a new vCloud Automation Center component and enhancements to several others, while announcing that the suite can now manage … (more)

  • A Pass To A PHP PaaS
  • Dr. Dobb’s Red Hat has expanded its OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) ecosystem with a PHP-flavored enhancement by collaborating with Zend. A new Zend Server for the Red Hat OpenShift offering provides the OpenShift PaaS with a PHP development and … (more)

  • Multi-tenancy in railwayjs – RailwayJS | Google Groups
  • Multi-tenancy is a major requirement and we want to keep data of different clients in separate databases. We want to use domains/subdomains to resolve the … (more)

  • Platform as a Service in 2012
  • GigaOM The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) market is predicted to reach $20.1 billion in 2014. Huge brands occupy this emerging space, including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Salesforce.com. Many newer startups enter the market each month, too. The recent trend … (more)

  • Basware : Basware Interim Report January 1-September 30, 2012 (IFRS)
  • Reuters Automation Services include e-Invoicing, scanning services, printing services, catalogue management, purchase message exchange, activation services and Software as a Service (SaaS) services. Basware reports the estimated revenue to be recognized for … (more)

  • E-commerce sales channels proliferating? Relax, it’s just a display
  • issue … ZDNet Nelson was in Sydney yesterday for the Australian launch of SuiteCommerce, NetSuite’s commerce as a service (CaaS) platform that combines e-commerce and m-commerce, and whatever else may come along, into what is sometimes called “omni-channel commerce … (more)

  • VMware vCloud Automation Center
  • vCloud Automation Center enables customized, self-service provisioning and lifecycle management of cloud services that comply with established business … (more)

  • VMware Announces Product Updates to vCloud Suite | Web Host …
  • October 9, 2012 — Virtualization and cloud infrastructure provider VMware announced on Tuesday that it has updated the management products in its VMware … (more)

  • Why a free private cloud with VMware vCloud may not be worth the …
  • IT shops can upgrade to VMware vCloud suite and build a private cloud for free, for a limited time. Understand the fine print and caveats before jumping in. (more)

  • Intelligence community cloud coming online in early 2013
  • FederalNewsRadio.com “The plan is centered on cloud computing and cloud storage and the security enhancements bound up in the bumper sticker slogan, ‘tag the data, tag the people,’” he told the 2012 GEOINT symposium in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday. “If we execute this right, we … (more)

  • Can Cloud Computing Be Regulated? Join The Debate
  • CloudTweaks News In a stage when our lifestyle is becoming controlled by smart tools and technologies, we can hardly ignore the value of cloud computing. In fact, we find it tough to imagine our daily life without the cloud technology. This ever-growing acceptance and … (more)

  • Mobile banking, cloud computing and IT investment cash top wish list for
  • bank … Finextra Mobile banking, cloud computing and IT investment cash top wish list for bank CIOs. Half of Britain’s financial services firms think that mobile banking is already important to their customers, while 71% predict it will be by 2015, according to a … (more)

  • VMware integrates DynamicOps with new vCloud Suite updates
  • Computer Business Review The DynamicOps technology is being integrated into vCloud as vCloud Automation Centre. VMware says this will enable what it calls policy-based provisioning. Rather than waiting for IT to approve requests, the application can automatically check against … (more)

  • BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC. : Brocade Advances …
  • 4-traders Brocade VCS Fabric technology has the ability to transform OpenStack scalability by providing efficient service-level abstractions, powered by distributed fabric intelligence. This offloads the orchestration platform from managing individual network … (more)

  • Cloud Technology Partners to Speak on OpenStack, Network Virtualization,
  • and … Sacramento Bee Cloud Technology Partners to Speak on OpenStack, Network Virtualization, and Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud Deployment Best Practices. Cloud Technology Partners to Appear at OpenStack Summit, Storage Networking World, and MassTLC’s 2012 … (more)

  • Re: [CVE-2012-4501] CloudStack security announcement
  • BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA512 CVE-2012-4501: Apache CloudStack configuration vulnerability Severity: Critical Vendors: The Apache … (more)

  • CloudStack Blog
  • A configuration vulnerability has been discovered in CloudStack that could allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary CloudStack API calls, such as deleting all … (more)

  • Easy to fix but dangerous vulnerability in CloudStack API discovered …
  • It just came to my attention that a vulnerability in Apache CloudStack was discovered, as John Kinsella writes in his post to the Apache CloudStack dev- mailinglist. (more)

  • IBM, AT&T Team On Secure Cloud Services
  • InformationWeek “It’s an integrated, end-to-end solution that provides access to cloud computing resources, and a secure pipe over which to access them,” said Dennis Quan, IBM’s VP for SmartCloud Infrastructure, in an interview. “It’s going to unleash a lot of pent up … (more)

  • Cloud Computing In Agriculture: 5 Key Questions You Must Answer
  • CropLife As cloud computing continues to become more popular in agriculture, there are five keys to understanding the Internet technology before you get started. October 10, 2012. By Matt Hopkins. Email Article Print Article. Tweet. To (separate multiple … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Is Microsoft’s Azure Number One?
  • Formtek Blog (blog) By most measures, Amazon’s AWS service tops all cloud computing services.
    It is Amazon’s AWS that supports NASA’s recent Mars rover exploration. And AWS is used by hundreds of thousands of companies in 190 countries. Many high-profile companies … (more)

  • Akamai Zaps Web Content Delivery Delays
  • InformationWeek Find out the nine questions you must ask before migrating apps to the public cloud in the Cloud Ready? special issue of InformationWeek. Also in this issue: It’s time to lay to rest two common myths of the cloud computing era. (Free registration … (more)

  • OpenStack Machiavelli and The Art of War Forbes
  • To say OpenStack has been getting a lot of attention lately would be putting it mildly. At last check the community devoted to the creation of open source … (more)

  • Workday IPO marks return of Dave Duffield
  • MarketWatch But unlike traditional software companies, Workday offers these applications as a Web-based service, part of the trends of cloud computing and software-as-a-service. The new business model has been embraced by companies offering software applications … (more)

  • Cloud Hosting VMware Enhances Management Tool in vCloud Suite
  • Greatresponder.com Greatresponder.com on Oct 10, 2012 : Cloud hosting infrastructure and virtualization solution provider company VMware has announced on Tuesday October 08, 2012 that it has updated its vCloud suite. The update was made in VMware management tool of … (more)

  • Critical CloudStack Security Vulnerability Discovered
  • eSecurity Planet In a recent blog post, CloudStack’s Joe Brockmeier acknowledged that a critical security flaw had been found in the open source cloud computing software. “A configuration vulnerability has been discovered in CloudStack that could allow a malicious user … (more)

  • Retail Anywhere Enriches NetSuite SuiteCommerce Platform with Integrated …
  • The Herald | HeraldOnline.com With more than 28 years of experience, Retail Anywhere provides a complete solution with software, hardware, and services including a Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model with low monthly fees and reduced upfront costs. For more information … (more)