Daily Cloud Feed – Oct 23, 2012

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

  • OpenStack Grizzly Summit. Jonathan Bryce on What’s Next
  • YouTube Sign in or sign up now! Alert icon. Loading… There is no Interactive Transcript. Published on Oct 19, 2012 by InternetNewsBlog. Exec Director of the OpenStack Foundation talks with Sean Michael Kerner about the future of the open source cloud project … (more)

  • Robust Cloud helps large companies gain efficiency with cloud computing
  • Soapbox Cincinnati A Cincinnati tech entrepreneur, Larry Carvalho, is taking his expertise in cloud computing to large companies across the country through his business, Robust Cloud. “I have a mechanical engineering degree, and have helped businesses learn how to use IT … (more)

  • As Mobile Grows, So Does Cloud Computing
  • CIO That growth is going to make the cloud computing phenomenon even bigger. Why? It’s simple. Smartphones and tablets are application consumption devices. People don’t do computing on them, they do computing with them. While the data may emanate … (more)

  • Leading Analyst Firm Includes Sonic Foundry in Five 2012 Hype Cycles
  • DailyFinance VCMD encompasses software, hardware and Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings intended to manage and facilitate the delivery of video online in an on-demand and possibly live fashion. Sonic Foundry is also a sample … Our powerful Mediasite EX … (more)

  • Faster chips ‘cut cloud-computing bills’
  • BBC News Users could cut 30% off their bills for on-demand computer services by working out what sort of chip is on the servers they are renting, research suggests. On-demand, or cloud, services are built around what are advertised as clusters of generic … (more)

  • eMazzanti CEO Speaks at NYXPO: Cloud Computing Driving the Virtual Office
  • Equities.com The Era of Cloud Computing is Here Office workers used to be bound to their desktop PC, but today’s mobile workforce needs immediate access to network data, systems, and processes through mobile devices or productivity will suffer. Fortunately … (more)

  • Ex-Yahoo, Facebook big data vets do Hadoop for developers
  • GigaOM Continuuity, a startup founded by former big data experts at Yahoo and Facebook is ready to share its Hadoop-based Platform as a Service with the world. Rather than simply providing another cloud service for writing and running … The company calls … (more)

  • CLOUDSTACK-393 – Apache.org – The Apache Software Foundation!
  • Do we know if the 3.0x documentation for CloudStack is still accurate? It’s trivial for me to import this from the old docs – but if it needs to be written from scratch or … (more)

  • Citrix Forums : Instances not displayed in Cloudstack UI …
  • I’m logged on to Cloudstack as the admin user and I can’t display any instances in the UI at the root domain. I can view instances running under individuals … (more)

  • Rackspace Introduces Block Storage For OpenStack Clouds
  • CRN Rackspace Cloud Block Storage is based on the “Cinder” OpenStack Block Storage project for building a detachable storage framework, Interrante said. “Before Cinder, OpenStack storage was embedded in the compute,” he said. “The new Folsom release of … (more)

  • Looking For The Next $1 Billion Open Source Company
  • ReadWriteWeb In the world of open source cloud computing, OpenStack is the name that gets the most attention, thanks to the combined marketing prowess of Rackspace, HP, Dell and Red Hat, just to name a few. But OpenStack is not a company or even a product – it’s a … (more)

  • Why Cisco should buy Citrix
  • Network World With respect to cloud, the Citrix-backed CloudStack orchestration layer has garnered a significant amount of attention from network operators. OpenStack clearly has the lion’s share of media hype and enterprise interest, but CloudStack has quietly … (more)

  • Cloud computing explained | News | TechRadar
  • Cloud computing explained – You use it everyday, and its popularity is growing, but the cloud, is it, where is it, and is your data safe? Buying advice from the … (more)

  • Rackspace Launches OpenStack-Based Cloud Storage
  • NetworkComputing.com Rackspace’s new service is built on top of OpenStack’s Cinder APIs. OpenStack is an open-source platform for building public and private cloud services, with automation and orchestration controls for compute, storage and networking. Originally … (more)

  • Citrix Expands ShareFile with StorageZones for Enterprise
  • NewsFactor Network With the Citrix StorageZones software-as-a-service within ShareFile, organizations can manage data on-premises in customer-managed zones, in ones managed by Citrix in its secure cloud options in locations around the world, or through a hybrid of both … (more)

  • Athenahealth Wins a Client – Analyst Blog
  • NASDAQ The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based approach allows for a more flexible delivery mechanism that is expected to help Athenahealth win deals. The company has traditionally enjoyed high customer satisfaction rates, which facilitates a larger number of … (more)

  • Rackspace intros Cloud Block Storage for I/O-heavy apps
  • ZDNet Powered by OpenStack, Cloud Block Storage is intended to be complementary to Rackspace’s core cloud services products. Rackspace chief technology officer John Engates explained via telephone on Monday that Cloud Block Storage moves storage off … (more)

  • Ajubeo Cloud Hosting and Infrastructure Provider has Achieved VMware
  • vCloud … Greatresponder.com Greatresponder.com on Oct 23, 2012: Ajubeo cloud hosting infrastructure service provider proudly announced on Thursday, Oct 19, 2012 that it has achieved the status of VMware vCloud Powered for its provisioning of excellent cloud hosting infrastructure … (more)

  • VMware Reports Third Quarter 2012 Results
  • iStockAnalyst VMware, VMworld and VMware vCloud are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. Other marks mentioned herein are trademarks, which are proprietary to VMware, Inc. or another company. (more)

  • VMware 3Q Revenue Up Expects vCloud Suite To Lead Future Growth
  • VMware reported third quarter 2012 revenue rose while income dipped slightly, and said that its acquisition of SDN developer Nicira will help develop its … (more)

  • DataMotion Launches Secure Data-Transfer Service for Health Care
  • eWeek With its platform as a service (PaaS), DataMotion aims to reduce the cost and complexity of delivering health information electronically. “We’ve taken the experience in secure transport of information and incorporated the Direct Project into that core … (more)