Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 21, 2012
Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
- New WSO2 ESB features integrated multi-tenancy
- Rackspace cuts OpenStack’s umbilical cord
- Code snippets Using vCloud Director object metadata
- Cordys Strengthens Focus on Cloud Offerings
- PaaS promises devops in the cloud
- OpenStack Foundation Launches to Promote Open Cloud
- OpenStack Foundation launches
- Developer (Contract to Full) | Buzzr.com, a Drupal Software-as-a …
- Three Ways VARs Can Adapt To Platform As A Service – Wikibon
- Oracle to announce cloud infrastructure service at OpenWorld, Ellison says
- Heroku makes play for enterprise, adds Java
- Kana Software Bolsters Customer Support Technology With Midsize Business …
- Cybersecurity News Roundup: Sophos IDs Its Own Antivirus Software as Malware
- OpenStack announces technical project leads
- What’s New in VMware vCloud Networking and Security 5.1
- Linux Today – OpenStack Foundation Launches Giving Voice to Users
- Oracle Set to Debut Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service
- Heroku’s New Enterprise Cloud Service for Java
- SaaS data integration brings cost gotchas to cloud shops
- OpenStack Declares Independence
- CertiVox to Provide Parallels with Advanced Single Sign-On, Multi-Factor …
Thanks to the cloud readiness of the WSO2 Carbon middelware platform, integrated multi tenancy is a key feature that you get along with the recently released … (more)
DatacenterDynamics Lew Moorman, president, Rackspace. Rackspace has handed the reins of OpenStack and all of the assets it has collected in the process of developing the open-source operating system for infrastructure clouds over to the independent OpenStack Foundation. (more)
Setting metadata on vCloud Director objects is a convenient way to extend their properties to whatever you need. This is very useful to include information … (more)
Sacramento Bee Cordys is a global cloud platform software provider that helps businesses move to the cloud quickly and with minimal risk. The Cordys platform combines Platform as a Service, enterprise application development, a complete Business Process Management … (more)
InfoWorld (blog) Platform as a service is the fastest-growing area of cloud computing: Gartner forecasts the worldwide enterprise market for PaaS platforms will grow from $900 million in 2011 to $2.9 billion in 2016, representing a 26.6 percent rise each year. The … (more)
The VAR Guy It’s official: OpenStack, the open source cloud platform, has formed an independent entity, the OpenStack Foundation, to promote the project and open source cloud computing more generally. Here’s the scoop, and what it means for the open source channel. (more)
CIO Magazine “Putting OpenStack in an independent and vendor neutral foundation is one way to make sure you don’t get stuck with a single vendor,” said Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, explaining why he believes the foundation will be … (more)
Developer (Contract to Full) | Buzzr.com, a Drupal Software-as-a-Service Platform Company. Ed Sussman’s picture. Posted by Ed Sussman on September 20, … (more)
The emergence of platforms-as-a-service (PaaS) is changing the way that enterprise applications are distributed and consumed. Because PaaS provides the … (more)
Network World Oracle will also sell software for customers to build “identical services” in their own data centers, allowing them to move workloads back and forth between the public and private clouds, he said. … The new service means Oracle will be able to … (more)
TechTarget SAN FRANCISCO — The Heroku platform started in 2007 as the home of the upstart Ruby language, but 20 months after being acquired by Salesforce.com, the Platform as a Service provider has made a decidedly enterprise move — expanding to Java. (more)
Midsize Insider According to senior director of product marketing Ajay Khanna, the pay-as-you-go Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution is aimed at small and midsize firms that lack the enterprise-level contact center systems but share the same demands to deliver an … (more)
CIO (blog) This week’s IT security news roundup has stories on Sophos’s anti-virus software identifying itself as malicious code; a Microsoft 0-day fix; Iranian cyberwar; an Android NFC hack that let commuters ride to work for free; cybercriminals targeting bank … (more)
Cloud Pro Open source infrastructure as a service (IaaS) provider, OpenStack, has elected eight new technical project leads and will soon be announcing three new members of its Technical Committee. The technical project leads will be responsible for the … (more)
DABCC.com With the release of vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 product, VMware brings the leading software defined networking and security solution that enhances operational efficiency, provides agility and is extensible to rapidly respond to business needs. (more)
Datamation: New governance will give voice to both user and vendor needs from the open source cloud platform. (more)
Datamation “With that addition, Oracle will be providing its customers with all 3 tiers of cloud computing: Software as a Service, Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service,” Ellison said during the earnings call. Oracle’s SaaS services include CRM … (more)
ADT Magazine Heroku is a cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) acquired by Salesforce in 2010. Heroku Enterprise for Java is … When Salesforce acquired Heroku 20 months ago, it was the leading Ruby-based application platform-as-a-service. At the time, Salesforce CEO … (more)
TechTarget With its promise of lower costs and simplified management, Software as a Service can be appealing in the enterprise — until it comes time to integrate it with on-premise applications and data. That’s when enterprises looking for an easy solution to … (more)
Virtualization Review The new OpenStack Foundation kicks off with $10 million in funding from member companies over the next three years. That should be ample enough to cover its operating requirements, said Jim Curry, GM of Rackspace Private Cloud and a member of the … (more)
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com CertiVox is a leading web security company that provides authentication and encryption-based SaaS (software as a service) solutions to government, enterprises and individuals. It helps them to simply and cost-effectively secure and manage their … (more)