Daily Cloud Feed – Sep 6, 2012
Daily aggregation of cloud news from @cloud_aware, cloudaware.net.
- Vendors continue to pick sides between CloudStack, OpenStack
- Nebula Raises $25M From Comcast, Kleiner Perkins To Help Companies …
- Software as a Service (SaaS), Security and Risk Management: Part …
- Heroku loses a star as CEO and Salesforce EVP Sebastian resigns …
- 12 hot cloud companies worth watching
- vCloud Suite Archives – Punching Clouds
- Which Cloud-Computing Stock Is a Better Buy Today?
- Microsoft adding staff, R&D in China mobile push
- Vendors continue to pick sides between CloudStack OpenStack Internet
- Vcloud formation – Spiceworks
- Microsoft Plans Large Expansion in China to Push Cloud Services
- Oracle seeks to delay cloud features in enterprise Java
- generalDev Multitenancy based dispatching doesnt add too much …
- CumuLogic Announces Java Platform-as-a-Service for HP Cloud Services
- Microsoft plans large expansion in China to push cloud services
- Cloud computing ‘more solid’ than non-cloud environment
- Pogoplug taps Amazon Glacier for archiving
- Cloud Computing on Virtual Desktops
- Cloud Computing Makes Software Piracy Obsolete
- How Cloud Computing Is Contributing To Space Exploration …
- The dangers of the Pentagon’s cloud | Defense Tech
- github – git-able Platform as a Service – Stack Overflow
- VMware joins OpenStack Foundation for greater cloud interoperability
- Polycom, IBM Team for Video-as-a-Service Development
- SaaS and Cloud Computing: Tight Budgets are Driving Rapid Growth with SMEs
- 3VR Taps Oracle Vet to Lead Engineering Team
- Cloud Computing Gets IT Thumbs Up
- Russia’s Yandex offers cloud storage to rival Box and Dropbox
- Test Day:2012-09-18 OpenStack – Fedora Project
- Vendors continue to pick sides between CloudStack, OpenStack …
- Defining the Open Cloud
- Lyris Announces Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Fiscal 2012 Financial Results
- Backup vCloud Director vApps automatically, driven by vCO
Network World Earlier this year Citrix rumbled the open source cloud industry when it ditched OpenStack, a project backed by big-name companies such as Rackspace, Red Hat, Dell and HP, and launched CloudStack, a competing open source platform for cloud … (more)
TechCrunch Founded by Chris Kemp, the former CTO of NASA and OpenStack co-founder; Nebula allows businesses to create a private infrastructure and data systems. As Kemp explained to TechCrunch’s Semil Shah earlier this year, Nebula’s infrastructure is similar to … (more)
Over the years since the concept of Cloud Computing evolved we have seen an accepted concept of the “Cloud Computing Stack”, with its three distinct categories: Software as a Service, Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service; … (more)
By Derrick Harris
Sebastian joined popular platform-as-a-service startup Heroku as CEO in July 2009, leading it through a $212 million acquisition by Salesforce.com in December 2010 and over the 1.5-million-apps-hosted plateau as of May 2012. Once a … (more)
PCWorld On the back end, it leverages file sharing services DropBox, Google Drive and Box, while hosting the software as a service (SaaS)-based application in the Amazon Web Services cloud. The success has fueled the company’s further development. Having … (more)
Those who attended VMworld 2012 last week and witnessed the launch of the new vCloud Suite, may have heard about the changes and new technology … (more)
DailyFinance Cloud computing is an intensely competitive arena. Rackspace’s biggest threat may be Amazon.com (NAS: AMZN) , an industry leader in infrastructure computing with Amazon Web Services, or AWS. The main barrier to entry in this business is scale, and … (more)
Boston.com The announcement adds to intensifying competition in mobile Internet and cloud computing in China, where nearly 400 million people go online using mobile phones and other wireless devices. Haupter said Microsoft is stepping up efforts to expand use of … (more)
Vendors continue to pick sides between CloudStack, OpenStack ( Internet ) Earlier this year Citrix rumbled the open source cloud industry when it ditched … (more)
By Q@der
how can we establish a virtual connection between the clouds and the users who works on virtual devices with help of vmware…? | 8 replies | VMware. (more)
PCWorld To benefit from a growing Chinese market, Microsoft on Thursday said it is increasing its investment in the country, with new hires, more research for local requirements, and an expansion to additional cities and provinces to bring cloud computing … (more)
InfoWorld Oracle is finding its road map for enterprise Java is a bit too ambitious, with the company now proposing a postponement in cloud computing capabilities that had been anticipated for Java EE (Java Platform, Enterprise Edition) 7 next year. Instead, the … (more)
SubjectDev Multitenancy based dispatching doesnt add too much overhead msg08165. List general. general Navigation Date Prev Next Date Index Thread Prev Next … (more)
RedOrbit CumuLogic is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) software provider that enables enterprises, cloud providers and ISVs to develop and deploy Java applications in public, private and hybrid cloud environments. CumuLogic is redefining PaaS to include a … (more)
Computerworld … Chinese market, Microsoft on Thursday said it is increasing its investment in the country, with new hires, more research for local requirements, and an expansion to additional cities and provinces to bring cloud computing services to its enterprise … (more)
Sun.Star Cloud computing is currently considered as one of the most significant shifts in information technology, promising cost-efficient applications and data that the public can use from the Internet like Facebook and Twitter. Winston Damarillo, CEO and co … (more)
GigaOM Pogoplug appears to be the first company to offer a service that uses Glacier, Amazon’s slow-but-cheap storage service as a data archival backend-in-the-cloud. But don’t expect it to be the last. Glacier photo: Flickr/pfly. After Amazon announced … (more)
Midsize Insider The eventual goal of cloud computing is a virtual IT environment accessed through a universal virtual desktop. While VMware recently introduced a completely virtual data center, the more immediate IT configuration, especially for midsize businesses, is … (more)
By Brian Proffitt
The fight against file sharing has reached a new pitch as industry organizations battle file sharing as though their lives depended on it. As, in fact, they do. The foundations of the antipiracy crusade are evaporating as the cloud undermines the … (more)
By cloudtweaks
After positively impacting businesses on terra firma, cloud computing is now spreading its influence to space. Even as the world celebrates the successful landing of the Mars Rover Curiosity on the Red Planet, Amazon has chalked up a major … (more)
By mike.hoffman
The Pentagon has bought into the cloud computing concept and is in the process of consolidating its servers and networks to adapt to it. Moving the military onto the cloud makes sense to Defense Department leaders for two reasons: cost and … (more)
I think that something like this can fullfill your needs: https://github.com/mislav/git- deploy … (more)
TechTarget VMware has jumped on the open standards cloud computing bandwagon, recently announcing it will join the OpenStack Foundation and contribute to the development of the open source operating system for cloud computing. The virtualization software … (more)
TalkinCloud (blog) According to Polycom and IBM Research, more businesses are evaluating the use of video-as-a-service (VaaS) through private, public and hybrid clouds. It’s not surprising, considering the ease, simplicity and costs VaaS promises over on-premise solutions. (more)
Formtek Blog (blog) A recent report from KPGM looks at the state of the Software as a Service market as of 2012. The Good Key contributors to the rapid growth of … Contact us to discuss your needs. Alfresco is the most popular and comprehensive Open Source ECM platform. (more)
Sacramento Bee Karahashi, who most recently was vice president of development for Oracle, brings a wealth of enterprise software experience to 3VR. He has developed products that are delivered as both licensed software and software as a service (SaaS). “In today’s … (more)
Automation World The cloud-computing concept has garnered headlines over the past few years through it’s application by giants like Amazon.com, but has made few solid inroads in the industrial sector. That may soon change as IT groups increasingly embrace the idea of … (more)
GigaOM Yandex, the Russian search engine, has taken its cloud storage product out of its invite-only beta. Like Box or Dropbox, Yandex.Disk offers users access to their files from any device, including their Apple and Android phones. Users will get 10 GB of … (more)
Test Day:2012-09-18 OpenStack … OpenStack Test Days. }}} … You can do basic testing of OpenStack in a virtual machine, with specific config noted below … (more)
By fmmonteverde
Vendors across the industry are strategically aligning themselves on either side of the divide between OpenStack or CloudStack, which is now an Apache Software Foundation-managed project. (more)
Linux.com (blog) The panel, led by Red Hat’s John Mark Walker, included Sam Ramji (Apigee), Greg DeKoenigsberg (Eucalyptus Systems), Stefano Maffulli (OpenStack) and I sat in on behalf of Apache CloudStack. It was a fun panel, lively, and short. With just 30 minutes … (more)
NASDAQ Recurring revenue of 85% total revenues for the full fiscal year 2012, compared to 85% for the full fiscal year 2011; Lyris HQ Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) revenues of 56% of total revenues in the fiscal fourth quarter compared to 49% in the same … (more)
This video shows another example how powerful vCenter Orchestrator really is: Auto-Create a new Backup Job, whenever a new vApp is deployed in vCloud … (more)