Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 11, 2012
Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
- OpenStack Private Clouds: Brocade, Piston Partner
- VMware Tightens Management Infrastructures
- VMware Updates vCloud Suite for Software-Defined Data Centers
- CLOUDSTACK-295 – Apache.org – The Apache Software Foundation!
- [#CLOUDSTACK-257] AWS Api is not correctly deployed – ASF JIRA
- Cloud storage wars rage on with OwnCloud’s new release
- Microsoft Releases Rap Video To Celebrate Cloud Computing
- Software as a service: Benefits for life insurers
- VMware users indifferent to vCloud updates, virtual storage plans
- Inktank Partners With Citrix to Support Ceph Distributed Storage in
- Opportunities for the Channel as Government Discovers the Cloud
- Aircel partners with NEC for cloud solutions
- goBalto to be a Host Company for Inaugural OpenCoSF Conference
- 4 Key Points on Cloud Computing | The Blog Herald
- Cloud Computing Pushes Vendors to Seek New Roles in IT Value Chain
- Taking a page from the ferocious honey badger … the enterprise kicks
- FileSpirit lets mobile workers remotely access their files
- Doctor’s orders: Healthcare in the cloud
- XenServer 6.1, XCP 1.6 and OpenStack Folsom | Citrix Blogs
- VMWare Adds Automation to Cloud Suite
- Is OpenStack the great cloud hope or just hype?
- SolidFire Ties Into OpenStack Efforts
- Data Center Links: NetApp, Cisco, Nimsoft, Brocade
- Inktank Partners With Citrix
- SAIC provides smart grid as a service to United Power
- Download FAQ – VMware
- Exclusive: Comcast casts its lot with OpenStack
TalkinCloud (blog) Brocade and Piston Cloud are collaborating to provide customers and partners with a flexible, resilient and scalable OpenStack-based solution for the development and deployment of private clouds. The two companies are partnering to help joint customers … (more)
Virtualization Review (blog) vCloud Center 5.1 is based on DynamicOps technology VMware acquired when it purchased DynamicOps last summer. Via multi-cloud infrastructure and desktop provisioning capabilities, this new product employs a self-service portal — what VMware calls … (more)
The VAR Guy The updates include vCloud Suite enhancements, and a focus on vCloud Automation Center 5.1 and the IT Business Management Suite. Here are the implications for channel partners. While VMware’s product portfolio continues to expand, the company’s … (more)
Changing config files was deemed too unsavory to be done in a automated manner so that was removed from the spec file. Thus we need to add a section to … (more)
3. Generate API keys for the user 4. Call cloudstack-aws-api-register with the input parameters. Error User registration failed with http error code: 400. Options … (more)
GigaOM OwnCloud released its community edition and updated the business version of its service which lets IT store employee files in its cloud of choice. Cloud storage for business is a white hot market at least in terms of vendor activity. cloud storage. The … (more)
Huffington Post UK When a company like Microsoft releases a rap video to celebrate its own products, you’re likely not going to enjoy the results. (Remember this?) And when that product is a relatively obscure cloud computing system named Windows Azure, that likelihood … (more)
Michael Costonis highlights the benefits of software as a service (SaaS) for life insurers, especially in new business and underwriting processes. (more)
TechTarget VMware has taken over the virtualization spotlight again this week. The vendor unveiled enterprise-wide storage virtualization plans at VMworld Europe, as well as vCloud updates and future vCenter integration intentions. And not to be ignored, Cisco … (more)
CloudPlatform MENAFN.COM Launching later this year, Apache CloudStack 4.0 will be the firstApache release of CloudStack to integrate Ceph’s distributed storageplatform to provide highly scalable and flexible virtual blockstorage for enterprises and developers. Ceph’s unique … (more)
UCStrategies Finally, it is worth mentioning that 49 percent was commanded by Infrastructure-as-a-Service, 32 percent underlined Storage-as-a-Service, 25 percent pointed at Software-as-a-Service, and 19 percent at Platform-as-a-Service. Comprehension of cloud … (more)
Times of India NEW DELHI: Aircel and NEC India, a display, network and IT solutions provider, announced their strategic partnership for Software as a Service (SaaS), where NEC will provide the cloud aggregation platform, along with a portfolio of cloud offerings to … (more)
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com Tracker 2.0, goBalto’s flagship product, is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that helps small and large clinical research organizations (CRO’s), pharmaceutical companies, and medical device companies track clinical studies and keep managers … (more)
By Angus Shaw
IBM Cloud Computing. (Photo credit: IvanWalsh.com). Cloud computing is truly the tech du jour among business enterprises, but this tech buzz word is no passing fad, its gearing up to be that floating behemoth of data that’s here to stay. You’d … (more)
PC Advisor Cloud computing represents the most profound change in computing that the industry has ever seen. The reason is simple. Cloud computing is not just a platform change implementing a better price/performance capability based on Moore’s Law. It represents … (more)
some … Computerworld (blog) Then, along comes Dreamforce from the self-proclaimed enterprise cloud computing company with a stunning 90,000 attendees, followed up by Openworld with a not-too-shabby second place of over 50,000 attendees, to remind us that the enterprise is truly … (more)
GigaOM Cloud Computing / file access / FileSpirit / Structure Europe 2012. loading external resource {“source”:”http:\/\/gigaom.com\/wijax\/8af4d07b58048cd6d80389a624069eb1″,”v arname”:”wijax_d683dd7469979d53459b32b849e7adff”,”title_element”:”h2″ … (more)
Network World As cloud computing continues to mature, there are still some questions about whether the technology is ready for highly-regulated industries, such as health care. By Brandon Butler, Network World October 11, 2012 11:54 AM ET. Print . Judy Klickstein is … (more)
Look at the sessions covering XenServer and the OpenStack conference, and look at the latest features in XenServer 6.1 and XCP 1.6. (more)
CIO Today “Not only do its new solutions significantly improve the vCloud Suite’s abilities to manage essential cloud functions and processes but they also extend its capabilities to deeper system- and service-level processes.” VMware took the cover off its … (more)
TechTarget Public cloud services based on OpenStack are now available, and the project’s official governing body, the OpenStack Foundation, recently accepted VMware as an upper-echelon member. Still, as OpenStack contributors, supporters and users prepare to … (more)
techrockies.com SolidFire, the developer of solid-state disk storage systems, said today that it has tied its products into the new OpenStack standards effort for cloud-based services. According to SolidFire, it is demonstrating its SSD systems along with Canonical, a … (more)
Data Center Knowledge Brocade (BRCD) announced that it is working with Piston Cloud, the enterprise OpenStack company, to help ensure that joint customers can orchestrate and manage Brocade VCS fabric-based network infrastructure using Piston Enterprise OpenStack … (more)
socalTech.com The Citrix product is based on the open source Apache CloudStack software. Financial details of the link were not disclosed. Inktank said the integration allows Ceph to provide the primary block storage for the Apache CloudStack and Citrix CloudPlatform. (more)
Electric Light & Power (SAIC) won a 10-year contract by United Power for a 10,000 meter pilot project of advanced metering infrastructure solutions and implementation of SAIC’s Smart Grid as a Service offering. Services began in July to build out the infrastructure and once … (more)
FAQ / 1. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS. Q: Why did VMware acquire DynamicOps? Is this a change in corporate strategy? A: The acquisition is an … (more)
GigaOM Comcast Ventures, led a recent $25 million investment round in Nebula, the cloud computing company founded by former NASA CTO Chris Kemp, an OpenStack pioneer. And, Ryan King, CTO and VP of Comcast Silicon Valley, which is building Comcast’s … (more)