Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 17, 2012

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

  • Why OpenStack Works
  • Datamation SAN DIEGO. The last two years have been very eventful for Jonathan Bryce. Bryce is the Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation, overseeing a project that has become highly influential since he helped create it two years ago. Today at the … (more)

  • CloudStack Collab conference Nov 30- 2 Dec 2012 | CloudStack …
  • ShapeBlue are proud to be sponsoring the first CloudStack Collab conference. The event will be between Nov 30 and Dec 2 2012, held at The Venetian, Las … (more)

  • Leading Technology Partners In Asia Embrace NetSuite SuiteCommerce
  • The Herald | HeraldOnline.com It sells, distributes and supports product lifecycle management (PLM) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions, including ERP, CRM and eCommerce. Based on NetSuite’s SuiteCommerce platform, SES’ eCommerce solution provides a one-stop shop for … (more)

  • Rackspace And Workday: Two Very Overpriced Cloud Stocks
  • Seeking Alpha (More…) The big trend in tech over the past few years has been cloud computing. It exists in may shapes and forms, and every technology company has integrated the cloud into their business plans over the past few years. However, many new companies … (more)

  • New CA ARCserve Release Empowers Customers and Service Providers to …
  • DailyFinance CA ARCserve is available under traditional, perpetual software licensing, through a monthly or annual subscription, or as a comprehensive turnkey Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering that includes bundled and integrated cloud storage. “CA Technologies … (more)

  • Metacloud Brings Spine to OpenStack Clouds
  • InternetNews.com Spine is an open source technology for provisioning and scaling that was originally built by Ticketmaster and then released as open source. Steve Curry, CEO of Metacloud, was formerly a Senior VP at Ticketmaster before leaving along with some members … (more)

  • VMware vCenter Operations Manager 5.6 Changes Underscore Value of VMTurbo
  • DABCC.com VMware took the opportunity at VMworld Barcelona to announce a few changes to its vCenter Operations Manager (vCOps), including packaging changes aligned with VMware vCloud Suite. vCOps 5.6 includes a few feature enhancements, such as the ability … (more)

  • OCF Pushes enCORE HPC Service
  • HPCwire This is true HPC-as-a-Service; the compute nodes are not virtualized. Service users can also access 48 GPU nodes outfitted with NVIDIA Tesla 2090 GPUs. The cluster operates with Platform HPC tools, so for customers using Platform LSF, it’s easy to … (more)

  • Open Source Project Red Dwarf Brings Database as a Service to the
  • OpenStack … Database Journal At the OpenStack Summit this week, developers from HP and Rackspace took to the stage to describe a new approach for delivering databases as a service, in the cloud. … OpenStack is a multi-stakeholder open source cloud platform development effort. (more)

  • cloud stack’s Profile Open Source Network Monitoring and Systems …
  • Login or Register to find out more about cloudstack … cloud stack asked what’s the password of zenoss user which add by coreautodeploy4.2sh … (more)

  • Musings of Rodos: Secure Multi-Tenancy
  • Edward Haletky (blog) once asked me what I thought secure multi-tenancy was in relation to Cloud Computing. I am willing to admit that at first I gave an answer … (more)

  • SAP Launches Cloud Platform Built On Hana
  • InformationWeek SAP jumped into the cloud platform-as-a-service market on Tuesday by launching the first in a series of planned cloud-based application services and database services. Announced at the vendor’s annual TechEd conference in Las Vegas, the new services … (more)

  • Verizon’s Mobility-as-a-Service Creates Opportunities in the Channel
  • UCStrategies With Enterprise Mobility-as-a-Service, Verizon has created one of the most comprehensive and capable solutions to put enterprise mobility to work on a global basis. Now, companies can leverage a single user-based management platform to outfit a global … (more)

  • ExactTarget Opens Fuel Platform for Third-Party Development, Sets Sights
  • on … DailyFinance INDIANAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Global interactive marketing provider ExactTarget (NYS: ET) announced today it is opening its software as a service platform for software developers, creating the foundation for the largest cloud-based digital marketing … (more)

  • Time Warner Cable Business Class Launches Cloud Services
  • The Herald | HeraldOnline.com Time Warner Cable Business Class announced the launch of a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) offering designed to give small-to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) access to reliable, easy-to-use hosted communication and collaboration solutions … (more)

  • Neocase Software launches Advanced Business Process Management to …
  • IT News Online San Francisco, USA – October 17, 2012 – Neocase Software, the leading SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) provider of Global HR, Customer Service and Finance solutions for shared service centers (SSCs), today announced the immediate availability of … (more)

  • Cloud Host Media Temple Launches OpenStack-Based Private …
  • October 16, 2012 — Cloud hosting provider Media Temple announced Tuesday, together with Morphlabs and Dell Helix, it has launched a new private cloud service built on OpenStack. (more)

  • Is the Clock Ticking for OpenStack? | Cloud Computing Journal
  • A new Forrester report says “the clock is ticking” for OpenStack, because “have been relatively few enterprise-ready OpenStack-powered products on the market.” The report was quoted as such in a leading tech publication, which had also … (more)

  • Cloud trading markets could be ‘the Expedia of web services – GigaOM
  • By Robert Andrews
    A new service, Eurex, promises to let broker any company’s cloud computing services to a new marketplace of consumers. GigaOM’s Structure:Europe conference heard about the opportunities and challenges from company CEOs. (more)

  • Vote for Serena for UP-START Cloud Computing Awards | Serena …
  • By David Hurwitz
    Serena Software is up for the Best Hybrid Cloud Solution award for this year’s UP-START awards. Vote for Serena now! (more)

  • Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Joseph Beal, Chief …
  • By candicearnold
    Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about information security as it applies to the government and from the perspective of the cloud. What are the key drivers? What is. (more)

  • TrainSignal Releases VMware vCloud Director Organizations …
  • TrainSignal Releases VMware vCloud Director Organizations Training. Cloud API tools and virtual application management together allow admins to … (more)

  • Cloud Computing: Cloud Growth Numbers Revised Upwards
  • Formtek Blog (blog) Growth of public cloud computing services is exceeding even earlier rosy predictions. Gartner now says that computing services will grow by as much as 19.6 percent his year, reaching $109 billion. This compares to another recent competing analyst study … (more)

  • Flurry of News From OpenStack Summit
  • Data Center Knowledge The OpenStack Summit, which is underway in San Diego, is the OpenStack community’s largest conference to date with 1,400 attendees, said Jonathan Bryce, executive director, OpenStack Foundation, during the opening session yesterday. To illustrate his … (more)

  • OpenStack Open Source Cloud Distributions Take Shape
  • Server Watch During a panel event at the OpenStack Summit, OpenStack distribution vendors explained what it is that they do, how they differentiate and why fragmentation is not a risk. Pete Chadwick, Senior Product Manager of Cloud Infrastructure solutions at SUSE … (more)

  • Mark Shuttleworth Notes Availability of Ubuntu 12.10 with OpenStack “Folsom”
  • OStatic (blog) As is true of Cisco, RedHat, Rackspace and many other companies, Canonical has been steadily marrying its cloud strategy to the open source OpenStack platform. In February of last year, we discussed how Canonical was deepening its relationship with … (more)

  • Citrix CEO Disses OpenStack Over Immaturity
  • TechWeekEurope UK The original plan was to support both OpenStack and CloudStack, Templeton told TechWeekEurope at the company’s Synergy conference in Barcelona today, as the company believed it would be able to get to a time where it could merge the two platforms … (more)

  • pTools Launches new Software as a Service Web Content Management Solution
  • CMS Critic Irish Enterprise Web Content Management provider pTools has today announced the launch of its new Software as a Service (SaaS) Web Content Management (WCM) solution at Europe’s biggest technology conference, the Dublin Web Summit. The new software … (more)

  • IBM Study Spotlights Big Data as Top Reason to Deploy Cloud “Platform as
  • a … The Herald | HeraldOnline.com Unlike other cloud computing services, such as Infrastructure as a Service and Software as a Service, PaaS uniquely offers a foundation of common application services, tools and templates for businesses to rent and build their own powerful software … (more)

  • iCIMS Reports Record-Breaking Third Quarter Results
  • Sacramento Bee … broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. MATAWAN, N.J., Oct. 17, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — iCIMS, Inc., a leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) talent acquisition software solutions for growing businesses, today announced the company’s third … (more)

  • DealerTrack Selected by Dealers United as Preferred DMS Provider
  • Sacramento Bee DealerTrack DMS, based on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model, provides the real-time, on-demand data every dealer needs to run their business efficiently. Through its Open Track program, DealerTrack DMS can simply and seamlessly integrate … (more)

  • Cloud computing creeps into corporations
  • ScrippsNews Cloud computing — using remote data centers over the Internet instead of buying computers — has been quietly creeping into companies under the noses of corporate executives. Departments are using it without permission by putting it on company charge … (more)

  • Nvidia Announces High-End VGX Board For Cloud Computing
  • Tom’s Hardware Guide The VGX K2 will not be available until early 2013, but Nvidia released some initial specs of its first cloud computing GPU product. The K2 will be the flagship board to enable smartphones, tablets and PCs to access substantially more GPU performance … (more)

  • Cost savings, efficiencies lead IT pros to cloud computing
  • TechTarget Few technologies have affected the IT industry as profoundly as cloud computing, which delivers computing as a service or utility. Part of cloud’s appeal is clearly financial; it allows organizations to shed at least some of their expensive IT … (more)

  • HP Aims To Lead Shift To Enterprise Cloud
  • CRN Hewlett-Packard is aiming to capitalize on a coming cloud computing shift from delivering small, consumer-focused services to sustaining secure and reliable enterprise-scale workloads, HP’s cloud chief said Wednesday. “One of the challenges right now … (more)

  • Does Yang Backing OpenStack Startup Metacloud Matter?
  • Wired The OpenStack tent is already pretty big, with Rackspace, Red Hat and HP for starters, but that has not stopped Metacloud from crawling in. On Monday, the startup announced that it has raised an undisclosed amount of money from venture capital firm … (more)

  • Rackspace set to ship OpenStack storage, networking products soon
  • ZDNet Summary: At the OpenStack Summit, co-founder Rackspace announced that it has in preview testing storage and networking products based on two core components of OpenStack, even as it works to provide interoperability between its “Alamo” private cloud … (more)

  • VMware extends support for ESX hypervisor in OpenStack
  • Network World VMware has been embracing OpenStack more and more tightly over the past few months. First, it purchased Nicira, which is a heavy contributor to OpenStack’s Quantum virtual networking project, then immediately after that deal closed, the company applied … (more)

  • Polycom RealPresence platform to power Telecom VideoasaService …
  • Polycom RealPresence platform to power Telecom Video-as-a-Service offerings in … will utilise Polycom Incs Polycom RealPresence Platform as its software … (more)

  • Polycom to power Telecom video-as-a-service offering
  • Voxy … announced that Telecom Group, New Zealand’s largest telecommunications company, will utilise the Polycom RealPresence Platform as its software infrastructure of choice to deliver Video-as-a-Service (VaaS) offerings to New Zealand business customers. (more)

  • Boundaries between IT outsourcing and BPO are becoming blurred: Ovum
  • Network World In a new report, Ovum finds that the BPaaS concept appears to be a logical evolution of cloud services, in that standardised processes have been wrapped around software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering. … According to Ovum, the evolution of BPO from the … (more)

  • IBM And The Cloud: Danger And Opportunity
  • Wall Street Journal (blog) For International Business Machines , cloud computing is both an opportunity and a risk. And the risks of the cloud materialized in its most recent earnings announcement where IBM’s revenue fell short of analyst estimates. The opportunity for IBM is in … (more)

  • BoB Conference: Cloud Computing Wreaking Havoc On Old IT Models
  • CRN The cloud computing twister is picking up speed, wreaking havoc on both businesses and solution providers that are not getting with the cloud program. That was the big takeaway Wednesday from a cloud integrator forum panel at UBM Channel’s Best of … (more)