Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 12, 2012

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

  • Aircel launches enterprise cloud offerings in India
  • ZDNet Summary: The telco has partnered NEC to provide software-as-a-service, which will include collaboration tools, CRM, ERP, HRMS, and videoconferencing. Ryan Huang. By Ryan Huang | October 12, 2012 — 02:15 GMT (19:15 PDT). Follow @RyanZDNetAsia … (more)

  • Sensinode Launches Worlds First M2M Cloud Stack Powered By …
  • From Yahoo! News: Sensinode and Host Virtual announce delivery of the world’s first cloud-based Machine-to-Machine (M2M) stack, using Sensinode’s industry … (more)

  • Linux-based Lamp offers ‘illumination as a service’
  • ZDNet After going through two name changes, inventor Mark Pesce has renamed the “illumination-as-a-service” lamp the Light by MooresCloud. Mark Pesce’s Light. Mark Pesce’s Light (Credit: ZDNet/Spandas Lui). Originally known as the CloudLight, Pesce was … (more)

  • VR pioneer invents ‘illumination-as-a-service’
  • Register Another application Pesce has imagined will use a ‘landing lights’ feature built into the lights’ software, that turns on lights in sequence. Pesce said a friend testing an early version of the devices said he could imagine a young child touching their … (more)

  • How to build a simple Software as a Service website using Drupal 7?
  • Provide me a solution where i can achieve below functionality using Drupal 7… Create instances for a Customer that shares same drupal code base and … (more)

  • java Is GWT compatable with appengine’s multitenancy support Stack …
  • Is GWT compatable with appengine’s multitenancy support. up vote 0 down vote favorite. Just looking for confirmation that the two technologies do in fact … (more)

  • How to get your first cloud computing job
  • InfoWorld (blog) Cloud computing is expanding rapidly, with an accompanying need for for cloud computing “experts” to make this technology work. That translates into many new jobs chasing very few qualified candidates. At the same time, many IT professionals are … (more)

  • Clear sky for cloud computing in healthcare services
  • Healthcare Global Many people do not have a clear idea of what cloud computing is, and claim never to have used it, but cloud computing has become an indispensable part of our lives. Every industry is taking to the cloud to share and store information and save money. (more)

  • Brocade, Piston Cloud Collaborate to Help Manage Private Cloud Adoption
  • The Complete Managed Services Resource Brocade (News – Alert), a source of fabric networking solutions, will be joining with Piston Cloud, an enterprise OpenStack company, to help customers manage Brocade VCS fabric-based network infrastructure using Piston Enterprise OpenStack software. (more)

  • Inktank, Citrix Partner on Ceph Cloud Storage Solution
  • The VAR Guy Citrix welcomes Ceph’s inclusion into CloudStack and CloudPlatform, and we are pleased to partner with Inktank to provide enterprise support for Ceph storage for all of our CloudPlatform deployments. Ceph joins other open source technologies in Citrix … (more)

  • The ABCs of Cloud Computing
  • Huffington Post (blog) You can’t engage in a conversation about IT today without hearing having cloud computing dropped in the first two sentences. But behind that term is an overwhelming number of types, issues, solutions, and architectures to consider and digest. The world … (more)

  • Multi-tenancy, Human resources, field ID 112 etc. – ARS-List – Java …
  • But don’t you have to duplicate your People table under each company? From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@...] On Behalf Of … (more)

  • OpenStack Summit Board. Please Stay Open Source (avoid Open Core!)
  • InternetNews.com (blog) openstack Next week is the OpenStack Summit and I couldn’t be more excited. This isn’t just a typical IT conference where vendors pitch their wares (though that will be there too). This is a working conference where the future of OpenStack will be … (more)

  • Cloudscaling Opens Google Compute Engine APIs To OpenStack, Provides …
  • TechCrunch Cloudscaling has opened up the Google Compute Engine (GCE) APIs to OpenStack, allowing customers that use the open, federated cloud to access Google’s vast infrastructure. Cloudscaling, a San Francisco startup, is one of the pioneers in building open, … (more)

  • An OpenStack Cloud in the Parking Lot
  • Data Center Knowledge You may see all manner of vehicles as you search for a parking spot when you arrive at work in the morning. But you may not expect to encounter a cloud. At Dell headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, the company has used space in one of its parking lots of … (more)

  • Brocade, Piston Cloud partner to offer OpenStack-based private cloud
  • application Computer Business Review Fabric networking applications provider Brocade has partnered with the enterprise OpenStack company Piston Cloud to help their customers manage Brocade VCS fabric-based network infrastructure using Piston Enterprise OpenStack software. The two … (more)

  • VMware vCloud Suite Opens New Partner Opportunities
  • The VAR Guy A couple of weeks ago at VMworld 2012 in San Francisco we announced our vCloud Suite strategy. It was great to hear feedback about how our VMware Partner Network programs and requirements resonated with our Partners and to see a greater … (more)

  • VMware Expands Cloud Management Offering
  • Windows IT Pro (blog) VMware’s new cloud management solutions build on the the software defined datacenter platform that they presented in their vCloud Suite 5.1 announcements at the previous VMworld 2012 held in San Francisco. The management of the cloud is the next … (more)

  • How Cloud Computing Could Be the Future of Education
  • Huffington Post Our new solution to the challenges of modern teaching in China was to use cloud computing. Students can access lesson plans on their PC or tablet (like an iPad), and work through the lesson. These lessons can be accessed at any location and anyone can … (more)

  • Expect To Save Millions In The Cloud? Prove It
  • InformationWeek GSA’s experience is a reminder of the importance of business planning and project management every step of the way with cloud computing. Contrary to conventional wisdom, there’s no guarantee that the cloud will be cheaper than old school IT. In fact … (more)

  • Shares of Workday soar 72 percent in trading debut
  • CNBC.com (Reuters) – Shares of Workday Inc, a cloud computing company that has yet to turn a profit, soared 72 percent in their market debut on Friday, giving some tech analysts and investors a sense of de ja vu and question the lofty valuation. In the biggest … (more)

  • Asus Cloud eyeing three more data centers worldwide
  • Taipei Times 1 motherboard maker, plans to set up three more data centers worldwide by early next year, with the aim of providing better services to users of cloud computing services, the company’s cloud services subsidiary said on Thursday. Asustek has three data … (more)

  • Will Desktop As A Service Revive NetApp’s Fortunes?
  • Trefis NetApp is involved in designing solutions for storing, managing and protecting business data through enterprise storage and data management software as well as hardware products and services. The company has now teamed up with desktop-as-a-service … (more)

  • Cloud Services For Dummies
  • The Atlantic Platform as a Service (PaaS) sits on top of IaaS and enables you to build applications to support the business. For business leaders, cloud computing is a cost-effective way to leverage IT resources to prototype and implement strategic change. For your … (more)

  • What Workday’s Big Debut Reminds Us About Tech IPOs
  • Forbes Workday is a provider of human resources software to companies, part of a class of software-as-a-service (SaaS) that in recent history have proven to be far better bets for investors than flashier counterparts aimed at reengineering how consumers shop, … (more)