Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 5, 2012
Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
- Windows Server 2012 Dubbed the ‘Cloud OS’ by Microsoft
- Salesforce.com drops under pressure its bid to trademark “social enterprise”
- VIDA Diagnostics launches next generation software as service platform,
- Reval Establishes Local Presence in the BeNeLux
- Hotshot Nebula gets $25M for plug-and-play OpenStack clouds
- Oh no, sysadmins! VMware touts data centre that runs ITSELF
- Basho joins Apache Cloudstack effort Cloud Computing News
- Private Cloud Builders Team Up For Tussle With OpenStack
- DreamHost Enters Cloud Storage Fray With Ceph-Powered DreamObjects
- Weird Assumptions About Cloud Computing And How To Solve …
- Comparing CloudStack and OpenStack: Test Drive
- Basho Joins Apache CloudStack Project; Collaborates With Citrix on …
- Microsoft Vs. VMware: Who’ll Be Private Cloud King?
- F5 Cozies Up to VMware; Clears Up Two VMware View Shortcomings
- Salient Systems’ CompleteView Cloud VSaaS
- Retalix Acquires Cornell Mayo Associates, a Leading Provider of Store
- ONPATH and Gale Technologies Transform the Lab Automation Landscape for …
- Check Point Software Technologies’ Management Presents at Citi
- CumuLogic Announces Java Platform-as-a-Service for HP Cloud …
- VMware Attracts 8500 vCloud Service Providers
- Software as a ServiceSaaS Security and Risk Management Part 1
eWeek Despite the popularity of cloud computing to help companies reduce the costs to procure and manage hardware, the compute cycles still have to be generated on servers somewhere. Bill Laing, corporate vice president in the Server and Tools business unit, … (more)
ITworld.com The enterprise cloud computing company, which has used the term social enterprise to highlight the use of social media and related technologies by businesses to link with customers, partners, and employees, also said it will look to remove any … (more)
Apollo … pharmabiz.com Apollo 1.2 showcases improved workflow and dataflow functionality streamlining VIDA’s software as a service model, new interactive procedure planning features for lung volume reduction therapies and endobronchial biopsies, and the industry’s first … (more)
Financial Post Reval, leading global provider of a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for Treasury and Risk Management (TRM), is establishing a local presence in Amsterdam to support major organizations and international treasury centres based in Belgium, the … (more)
GigaOM Nebula CEO and co-founder Chris Kemp says the OpenStack cloud company will use its new-found money to hire engineers, expand its private beta and built out its new Menlo Park, CA headquarters. Comcast Ventures led the $25 million Series B round. (more)
Register Now that vCloud Suite 5.1 has arrived, VMware is pushing a new term: the software-defined data centre (SDD). It’s easy at first to dismiss this as merely another marketing buzzword, meaningless PR babble like “cloud” or “synergy”. If you poke your head … (more)
Basho says its Riak CS object store will fit nicely into the CloudStack open-source cloud platform. As service providers and enterprises look for Amazon S3 … (more)
Wired Yes, you can build your own version of Amazon’s massively popular cloud services. You just have decide which software platforms to start with. On Wednesday, in an effort catch your attention, two companies building on-premise alternatives to Amazon’s … (more)
TechCrunch Ceph itself offers API compatibility with Amazon S3 and OpenStack Swift (the storage backend that Rackspace uses), which makes it easier for DreamHost to court customers from both of those services. This API flexibility makes DreamObjects an attractive … (more)
By cloudtweaks
Cloud computing is a dynamic field. It’s been incorporated and used by many people, companies, non-profit organizations, and so many more. The technology, which allows you to use other people’s applications, is still growing. There have … (more)
The best way to learn about how CloudStack and compares to OpenStack was to deploy … (more)
CAMBRIDGE, MA–(Marketwire – Sep 5, 2012) – Basho Technologies, the worldwide leader in distributed database technologies, announced today that it is … (more)
InformationWeek Where Microsoft talks about the Cloud OS, VMware is talking about the software-defined data center and its own vSphere 5.1, vCloud Director, and vCenter Operations products as vCloud Suite, an emerging data center operating system. Page 2: VMware’s … (more)
NetworkComputing.com Among the announcements at last week’s VMworld came news that F5 is joining the VMware Ready Program for Networking and Security and will integrate its Big-IP with VMware’s vCloud product suite. The company has also made two small but vital … (more)
SecurityInfoWatch Salient Systems utilizes Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service at the platform level to host customer video and provide a simple interface where users can easily access the complete solution. CompleteView Cloud provides a secure cloud-based … (more)
Systems … NASDAQ Leveraging a multitude of deployment options, including cloud-based SaaS (Software-As-A-Service) delivery, Retalix serves a large customer base of approximately 70,000 stores, operating in excess of 400,000 checkout lanes, across more than 50 countries … (more)
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com … a leading provider of infrastructure automation software solutions that power Infrastructure as a Service for labs, enterprises, and service providers, today announced that they have successfully completed interoperability testing of ONPATH’s UCS … (more)
Technology … Seeking Alpha There is obvious shift from product to services regardless to the [SP] which is a different topic right, but in general every new product that we launch in mid-2009 was as a service, the subscription. Look at IPS was a service, the EOP was a service … (more)
From Yahoo! News: Global 2000 enterprises can now accelerate cloud adoption by evaluating the development and deployment of Java applications on HP’s … (more)
TalkinCloud (blog) VMware’s vCloud initiative has attracted roughly 8,500 cloud service providers (CSPs) and datacenter providers, the virtualization company indicated at VMworld 2012. A lot of those CSPs are small, localized, regional service providers pushing into the … (more)
As cloud computing technologies and offerings mature and evolve in its services to customers, one common consumer use will be that of the Software as a … (more)