Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 19, 2012
Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
- Cloud computing: Why governments will face a battle to make it work …
- Lenovo Acquires Cloud Computing Company Stoneware …
- Lenovo Focus on Cloud Computing After Buying US-Based Stonware
- Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Pavlovsky, Product …
- Should You Get Certified? Popular Cloud Computing Certifications …
- Citrix invests in platformasaservice company CumuLogic | PCWorld
- How To Win The Cloud Wars
- CLOUDSTACK134 Document procedure to install vhdutil ASF JIRA
- Big Data ‘as a Service’ – IBM Power in Data
- Fusion PPT Awarded Cloud Computing Contract to Support DISA
- CS169 Software as a Service Lecture 5 YouTube
- Don’t let the cloud obscure usability
- OpenStack gets real Cloud Computing News
- Canonical Ties Ubuntu Server Development to OpenStack
- New IDC Cloud Computing Forecast Predicts Huge Growth in Next Four Years
- Cloud Apps Somewhat More Secure Than On-Premises Apps: Survey
- vCloud REST API – POST-CreateProviderNetwork
- OpenStack Foundation launches
- VMware and vCloud Storage: Ten Things You Need to Know About
- OpenStack Poised For Cloud Leadership
- Lenovo Takes a Leap into Cloud Computing
- Cloud Computing: What Does it Mean to Be an Open Cloud?
- Who makes up OpenStack?
- How to Build a vCloud vApp DMZ | VMware vCloud Blog VMware Blogs
- Salesforce.com`s Heroku PaaS Launches Enterprise Java Service
- Gartner: Cloud Services Growth Rockets, Business Process-as-a-Service
- Choosing the right cloud connector for application integration
- Salesforce.com takes aim at cloud storage market … and Box
- International Legal Technology Association Names Morrison & Foerster
- Salesforce.com’s Benioff: Social networking is the latest tech revolution
- Cloud Computing Companies Get Funding in France
- OpenStack Foundation Launches With $10M in Funding, 5600 Members
- Nebulous ‘cloud computing’ term baffles most Americans – GeekWire
By Nick Heath
Cloud computing is more complicated than swapping out one technology for another – it’s about changing the way organisations operate, something. (more)
By Sean Patterson
Stoneware is a privately held company that develops cloud computing and classroom management software. It is currently headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana and has 67 employees. The price paid for Stoneware has not been disclosed, … (more)
By Jon Russell
Chinese computer giant Lenovo has further its cloud computing push with the undisclosed purchase of US firm Stoneware. (more)
By candicearnold
There’s more to General Electric (GE) than people might think. Founded in 1890 by Thomas Edison, the company has moved beyond providing electricity and light. (more)
By Jennifer Roland
Popular Cloud Computing Certifications. Posted on September 18, 2012 by Jennifer Roland. As cloud computing grows in popularity and ubiquity, you might be looking for tools to help you keep up and set you apart from the IT crowd. (more)
Citrix Systems has invested in PaaS (platform-as-a-service) startup CumuLogic, as it … PaaS offerings are the middle layer of a cloudbased software stack … (more)
Forbes IBM and Microsoft are running enterprise-oriented ads about cloud computing, Apple features iCloud and Siri (running in the cloud) prominently in marketing messages, and while Amazon.com remains most famous for e-commerce, its Amazon Web Service … (more)
Due to license issue reported in CLOUDSTACK30 vhdutil is removed from source code and packages Need to document the procedure to download and install … (more)
The optimal solution therefore combines both low cost, but reliable, data storage with predictive … (more)
RedOrbit Fusion PPT, a recognized cloud computing strategy and technology firm, announced today that they have won the highly competitive DoD Cloud architecture project for DISA. This contract will focus on building a DoD- community-wide interoperable Cloud … (more)
Lecture 5 – 9/12/12 – Computer Science 169 Software as a Service Instructors – Armando Fox and David Patterson. (more)
ComputerworldUK Cloud computing has much to offer organisations, but if the end user experience is poor, take up will be poor and the technology could fail to deliver the opportunities it offers. Sadly there are already reports from some vertical markets of cloud … (more)
The OpenStack Foundation is official as of Wednesday with a new 24-person board and a mandate to promote flexible open-source infrastructure for public, … (more)
Read about trends, technologies and best practices covered by experienced Giga Omni Media editors and writers. Participate in daily blog discusions and post … (more)
Midsize Insider There’s plenty of tongue-in-cheek cloud computing forecast options: partly cloudy, rainy, stormy, clear skies. But a new report from IDC predicts one outcome of the booming cloud services industry: growth, on a large scale. The report, titled … (more)
Forbes Securityis often a showstopper for cloud computing proposals, but at least one survey suggests that applications and data may be somewhat more secure out in the cloud than within on-premises systems. Photo: Wikipedia. In fact, cloud-based applications … (more)
POST /admin/extension/externalnets. Operation: POST /admin/extension/ externalnets; Description: Create an external network. Since: 1.0; Input parameters … (more)
Computerworld IDG News Service – After almost a year of preparation, The OpenStack Foundation has launched as a stand-alone nonprofit organization, freeing its namesake stack of open source cloud hosting software from the management of hosting provider Rackspace. (more)
Enterprise Storage Forum Last month’s VMworld conference in San Francisco featured the latest in the company’s vision for the cloud. It released VMware vCloud 5.1 and a host of virtual desktop features with the potential to transport much of the desktop infrastructure into the … (more)
InformationWeek The new OpenStack Foundation is taking shape as a potentially potent force in cloud computing. Its governing board has been elected, and working groups are accelerating development in eight technical areas. Perhaps more important, it has organized … (more)
Server Watch China’s Lenovo has entered the cloud infrastructure and services market with this week’s acquisition of Stoneware. Stoneware is best known for its webNetwork software platform, a cloud network hosting environment for enterprises, primarily in the … (more)
Formtek Blog (blog) Enterprises have long been captives of traditional on-premise software. They’ve been trapped by vendors because the expense and difficulty of migrating to a competitor is not a viable alternative. So it comes as no surprise that as businesses gradually … (more)
PC Advisor Today, OpenStack officials say more than 180 companies and 400 developers are actively contributing to the project while there is an even larger ecosystem of more than 5,600 people and 850 organizations that are more loosely associated with the open … (more)
Okay I admit sometimes I spend too many late nights coming up with some goofy ideas However this one actually panned out as a real world vCloud Director … (more)
eWeek Salesforce.com’s Heroku Platform as a Service (PaaS) unit has announced Heroku Enterprise for Java, a new service for IT organizations to build and run Java applications in the cloud. With Heroku Enterprise for Java, enterprises can create and deploy … (more)
Leads … CMSWire While Platform-as-a-Service is always going to be a smaller market than any of the others, growth here will also be very strong. What needs to be remembered is that PaaS, while smaller, is a critical growth factor for other market segments here. By the … (more)
TechTarget A plethora of on-premise applications that need to connect to cloud-based software, or Software as a Service, leaves architects scrutinizing their options. The newest — and, according to experts, best — way to connect these applications is through a … (more)
Network World Salesforce.com, the 800-pound gorilla of software as a service (SaaS), today jumped into the public cloud storage market with what could be an eye toward one vendor in particular: Box. At the company’s annual Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco … (more)
Most … Sacramento Bee Morrison & Foerster won for successfully leveraging SAAS (Software as a Service) automation in original and unique ways, including running scripts the firm wrote with Microsoft Powershell, to speed and facilitate the firm’s upgrade to Windows7 and … (more)
InfoWorld “We are standing on the shoulders of giants,” he said citing those who created the mainframe, client-server model, and cloud computing. “Now here we are in the 21st century, and we have this incredible social revolution. We believe so strongly that … (more)
CloudTimes france map flag 292×300 Cloud Computing Companies Get Funding in France To promote cloud computing development, the French Government has invested its Caisse des Depots, France’s sovereign wealth fund, in 2 competing local cloud providers. (more)
eWeek As the independent home for OpenStack, the foundation has already attracted more than 5,600 individual members, secured more than $10 million in funding and is ready to fulfill the OpenStack mission of becoming the ubiquitous cloud computing platform. (more)
Geeks like us hear the words “cloud computing” almost every day, using it ourselves to explain a host of different online-based services. But how do folks in the … (more)