The Social Cloud: Facebook IPO – Is This MySpace 2.0? History repeating: 2000 Bubble, Myspace, 2012 Facebook IPO, NBT (Next Big Thing…) Investors are expected to sink $5 billion into the Facebook IPO. Wow. Well, from a pure spreadsheet perspective it makes some sense. If you take the 800 million Facebook users multiplied by a value [...]
Tag Archives: Open Source
AT&T Joins The Cloud OpenStack Community
AT&T Joins The Cloud OpenStack Community “We also announced today that AT&T has become the first U.S. telecom services provider to join the OpenStack initiative, a community of more than 140 technology companies worldwide. We’ve been participating in OpenStack for more than a year and have already contributed a blueprint for a potential new function [...]
Calculating the ROI on Cloud – Part 2
Calculating the ROI on Cloud – Part 2 Continued From Part 1 Productivity Enhancement Productivity enhancements are more subjective in nature than direct cost savings; they are dependent on the type of business and the current organizational set up. Application Development The notion of Platform as a Service (PaaS) is to extract the common set [...]
Zenoss Expands Unified Cloud Monitoring With Support for Citrix CloudStack
Heterogeneous Cloud Management Enhanced With Addition of Leading Cloud Computing Platform SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwire – Nov 7, 2011) – Today at Cloud Expo, Zenoss, a leading provider of management software for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructures, announced the availability of a free and open source CloudStack ZenPack. The new ZenPack extends Zenoss Core to [...]
EnterpriseDB Intros Database-as-a-Service for Public and Private Clouds
EnterpriseDB Intros Database-as-a-Service for Public and Private Clouds EnterpriseDB has introduced a full-featured, enterprise-class PostgreSQL database-as-a-service (DaaS) for public and private clouds with support for Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus. The new launch-Postgres Plus Cloud Server- can also be used outside the cloud as an easy-to-use scale-out database architecture for bare metal deployment in standard data [...]
VMware Offers Micro Cloud Foundry as a Free Download
VMware Offers Micro Cloud Foundry as a Free Download VMware has announced the beta availability of Micro Cloud Foundry as a free download at http://micro.cloudfoundry.com. Micro Cloud Foundry is a complete version of the industry’s first open Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution, Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry delivers access to modern, high productivity frameworks and [...]
The Hottest New Cloud Computing Startup: Nebula
The Hottest New Cloud Computing Startup: Nebula Startups in cloud computing attracting a lot of attention, both from the tech media and the investment community, are nothing new. While I have covered two such companies in earlier articles (See: Venture Capitalists Flock To Cloud Computing Startup and What Bromium’s Funding Means for Cloud Security), this [...]
5 Excellent Cloud Development Communities
5 Excellent Cloud Development Communities to Discover New Talent Compiled is a list of 5 recommended cloud developer communities to find new talent, collaborate or to simply research and discover new API’s to help grow your business. These are in no particular order of preference. GitHub GitHub has grown into an application used by nearly [...]
Citrix Changes the Game in Cloud Infrastructure with Cloud.com Acquisition
Citrix Changes the Game in Cloud Infrastructure with Cloud.com Acquisition Market Leading Cloud.com Platform Lets Customers Build Clouds the Way the World’s Most Successful Clouds Are Built SANTA CLARA, Calif. 7/12/2011 » Citrix Systems today announced it has completed the acquisition of Cloud.com, a market leading provider of software infrastructure platforms for cloud providers. The [...]
O’Reilly Cloud Open Source Convention 2011 (OSCON)
Register now for the O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2011 (OSCON), taking place on July 25-29 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. For 13 years, OSCON, has been building a better future by putting open source to work for the benefit of everyday people. In special collaboration and partnership with Cloudtweaks, the program encompasses 20 [...]
Was The HP Leak A Publicity Stunt?
Was The HP Leak A Publicity Stunt? “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” – Andy Warhol (1928-1987), legendary American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker. In 1968, Andy Warhol famously declared the universality, and temporary nature of fame that would, in his opinion, soon engulf the world. Now, it seems HP vice president [...]
Red Hat Brings Cloud Scale and Agility to the Data-Tier
Red Hat Brings Cloud Scale and Agility to the Data-Tier Open source solutions provider Red Hat has announced the launch of a cloud-ready, highly scalable distributed data cache. Known as JBoss Enterprise Data Grid 6, the new release can deliver a range of benefits such as easing the load on database servers, reduction of response [...]
Microsoft Introduces Cloud ERP Solution through Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
Microsoft Introduces Cloud ERP Solution through Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Microsoft top managers announced plans to take Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions to the cloud at the opening of Convergence 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia, affirming that the software behemoth considers every single option to grab a market share in the market for cloud computing services. Microsoft’s [...]
GigaSpaces Leverages Citrix OpenCloud to Deliver Flexible and Open PaaS Solution
GigaSpaces Builds on the Success of OpenStack, Accelerating Choice for Enterprise Cloud App Development NEW YORK and BETHESDA, MD. – April 11, 2011 – GigaSpaces today announced they are collaborating with Citrix to provide an open, scalable platform for the development of enterprise cloud applications. GigaSpaces will leverage Citrix OpenCloud to offer a truly open [...]
YubiKey Authenticates Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform
YubiKey Authenticates Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform Yubico has announced the availability of its authentication token YubiKey to increase security for Microsoft Cloud Platform Windows Azure platform applications. Yubico specializes in providing easy and secure login solutions and the scalable and cost-effective Windows Azure Platform enables customers to build, host and dynamically scale applications and services [...]
Eucalyptus Systems Sponsors New York Cloud Event
Eucalyptus Systems Sponsors Cloud Expo 2011 New York All roads lead to New York this summer for the 8th International Cloud Expo. Eucalyptus Systems, the developer of an independent cloud computing platform is the “Bronze Sponsor” of this event scheduled to be held on June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York. This [...]
