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Rackspace Open Sources Cloud Platform; Announces Plans to Collaborate with NASA and Other Industry Leaders on OpenStack Project
Jul 15th
SAN ANTONIO, Jul 19, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Rackspace(R) Hosting (RAX 16.64, -0.66, -3.82%) today announced the launch of OpenStack(TM), an open-source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability. Rackspace, the leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, is donating the code that powers its Cloud Files and Cloud Servers public-cloud offerings to the OpenStack project. The project will also incorporate technology that powers the NASA Nebula Cloud Platform. Rackspace and NASA plan to actively collaborate on joint technology development and leverage the efforts of open-source software developers worldwide.
“Modern scientific computation requires ever increasing storage and processing power delivered on-demand,” said Chris C. Kemp, NASA’s Chief Technology Officer for IT. “To serve this demand, we built Nebula, an infrastructure cloud platform designed to meet the needs of our scientific and engineering community. NASA and Rackspace are uniquely positioned to drive this initiative based on our experience in building large scale cloud platforms and our desire to embrace open source.”
OpenStack will feature several cloud infrastructure components including a fully distributed object store based on Rackspace Cloud Files, available today at OpenStack.org. The next component planned for release is a scalable compute-provisioning engine based on the NASA Nebula cloud technology and Rackspace Cloud Servers technology. It is expected to be available later this year. Using these components, organizations would be able to turn physical hardware into scalable and extensible cloud environments using the same code currently in production serving tens of thousands of customers and large government projects.
“We are founding the OpenStack initiative to help drive industry standards, prevent vendor lock-in and generally increase the velocity of innovation in cloud technologies,” said Lew Moorman, President, Cloud and CSO at Rackspace. “We are proud to have NASA’s support in this effort. Its Nebula Cloud Platform is a tremendous boost to the OpenStack community. We expect ongoing collaboration with NASA and the rest of the community to drive more-rapid cloud adoption and innovation, in the private and public spheres.”
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Cloud Linux Named “Best Start-Up” In 2010 For The Cloud Computing World Series
Jul 9th
Award recognizes LVE innovation that can “crash proof” servers in shared hosting environments
Princeton, NJ, July 8, 2010 – Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, is the recipient of the 2010 Best Start-Up Award by the The Cloud Computing World Forum in the “World Series” Innovation competition. Cloud Linux received the award for its new innovation on how to “crash proof” servers as hosting providers migrate to a cloud based services model.
CloudLinux was launched in early 2010 and is a new commercially supported operating system proven to increase server density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability. Cloud Linux invented the Lightweight Virtual Environment™ a kernel-level technology that isolates specific hardware resources in a lightweight environment and prevents one tenant on a shared server from affecting others – especially due to a sudden peak load from a single tenant. The technology is designed to eliminate the risks of unstable servers that can undermine businesses’ operations and profitability.
“Seamless migration to a cloud based business model requires a solid infrastructure that can be managed to be made rock solid reliable while optimizing infrastructure assets,” states Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of Cloud Linux Inc. “We built CloudLinux to protect customers from outages often caused because of a lack of control over individual tenants. The last six months have been a great success for us – signing on many partners, including one of the largest shared hosting companies, UK2Group. This award is a rewarding validation of the work we are doing and the team is greatly honored to be receiving the award.” CloudLinux has signed on eighteen datacenter partners, and is installed on more then five hundred servers. It is compatible with all major hosting control panels, including Plesk, cPanel, ISPManager and InterWorx control panel products, as well as with Apache and LiteSpeed web servers. It is also used as a base for Parallels next generation H2E hosting platform. The company’s vision is to design a simple and elegant solution that helps companies improve server security, efficiency, density and performance as they migrate to Cloud-based services.
The Cloud Computing World Forum is sponsoring the Cloud Computing World Series Awards. Winners of the Cloud Computing World Series Awards were announced on June 29th at an award ceremony held at the Olympia Conference Center in London.
For more information about CloudLinux, please visit www.cloudlinux.com
About CloudLinux, Inc.
Founded in Princeton, NJ, CloudLinux is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.
CloudLinux provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability.
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IBM and European Union Join to Develop New Collaborative e-Business Model Extending Open Source and Cloud Technologies
Jul 8th
Press Release Jul 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced, in collaboration with the European Union, industry and academia, the launch of a research consortium which aims to help businesses more easily take advantage of Internet-based services – or “e-services” – to create collaborative business operations and achieve shared business goals.
The unique effort focuses on the development of a new computer science model that will enable organizations to greatly accelerate the typically time-intensive process around the coordination of e-services and increase the automation and efficiency around deploying new e-service blends. The research will enable even small to mid-sized businesses to create or join into flexible e-service blends, without investing in expensive IT expertise. The initiative will create open-source software to enable many organizations around the world take advantage of the technology.
“Up until now, organizations have had to invest significant time and money in conventional, mostly manual blending and customizing efforts to enable their e-business service operations to communicate and work collaboratively,” said Dr. Fabiana Fournier, consortium leader and scientist at IBM Research. “ACSI represents a new combination of computer science principles that are designed to enable businesses to retain a laser focus on operations and goals as they achieve new efficiencies in blending and interleaving e-services.”
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Who’s Next on the Acquisition Block? Bloggers Chime in
Jun 15th
Oracle buys Sun. HP buys 3Com. SAP buys Sybase. Just when it seemed like consolidation among the big data-center vendors had played itself out, we’re off again at full tilt. Multiple trends are driving the latest acquisitions wave: The economy is recovering, customers are demanding systems that are easier to implement and vendors seem intent on collapsing the divide between servers, network and storage.
So who’s next on the block? We asked some of IDG’s expert bloggers to pull out their crystal balls and make some bold merger predictions for the near future. Some are obvious, some controversial, but any one of them would give corporate CIOs a lot to think about if they woke up tomorrow morning to find out it had happened.
IBM buys Amazon Web Services
By Alan Shimel, author of Network World’s Open Source Fact and Fiction blog
The company that coined the phrase “on-demand computing” has been rather timid about the cloud. While Microsoft has Azure and Google its App Engine, IBM is not going to sit out the biggest computing migration in a generation. Jeff Bezos, on the other hand, is a Renaissance man. From his humble bookstore beginnings, he built Amazon.com into the biggest retailer on the Internet. He is bankrolling a project to put tourists in space. And unbeknown to many outside of the technology world, he has made AWS the dominant provider of public cloud services.
While cloud computing may turn out to be the biggest story in enterprise IT, Bezos’ investors want Amazon to maximize their returns. The Amazon Empire is too far-flung. At the end of the day, space is far above the clouds and much sexier to Bezos. He will sell the cloud service to pursue the stars. The money AWS generates from a sale could fund a lot of rocket ships.
Who has the money, the desire and deserves to be hosting a good chunk of the public cloud? Big Blue, that’s who. Who better to combine private and public clouds for true on-demand enterprise computing? IBM will make the hybrid cloud a reality. It has the software and services to offer both infrastructure as a service and platform as a service. IBM more than anyone has the resources, experience and business model to take AWS and fulfill the cloud destiny.
Who knows. When IBM reaches the cloud, it may find Jeff Bezos hovering above it in space.
(Shimel, CEO of The CISO Group, can be reached at alan@thecisogroup.com and on the Web at http://www.securityexe.com)
HP buys Teradata
By Robert Mullins, author of Network World’s Microsoft Tech blog
When considering a tie-up between Teradata and HP, it’s not just about strategy; it’s also personal. Before being made HP’s CEO in 2005, Mark Hurd spent 25 years at NCR, including a stint as president and chief operating officer of its Teradata division. Teradata was spun off from NCR in 2007, and Hurd later hired Ben Barnes, a former Teradata general manager, to run HP’s Business Intelligence division.
Hurd’s plan was to take on Teradata with HP’s Neoview, based on the NonStop SQL database that HP acquired when it bought Compaq. But Neoview hasn’t turned out so well. “HP Neoview is reeling,” Monash Research said in a March report. “(Almost) nobody sees Neoview competitively.”
Yet high-end data warehouses are a profitable and growing business, one that HP yearns to have a strong hand in. Two years ago it partnered with Oracle on its Exadata machine, a hardware-software combo that paired HP servers with Oracle’s database. Fast-forward to today and Oracle has dropped HP for Sun Microsystems, its latest big acquisition. Buying Teradata would allow HP to jump back in the game with a high-speed data warehousing stack and potentially deal Oracle some vengeance.
HP has built its software business on acquisitions: Peregrine Systems for $425 million in 2005, Mercury Interactive for $4.5 billion in 2006, Opsware for $1.6 billion in 2007. With Teradata it would get some screamingly fast appliance hardware in the bargain.
It wouldn’t be cheap: Teradata’s market capitalization is more than $5 billion. But it would be a smart growth move for HP.
(Mullins, a freelance technology journalist in Silicon Valley, can be reached at mullico@gmail.com.)
Read the rest at: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/198846/whos_next_on_the_acquisition_block_bloggers_chime_in.html
Full Credit to: PCWORLD
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AWS Import/Export supports importing and exporting data into and out of Amazon S3 buckets
Jun 10th
Today we are excited to announce two separate launches that make Amazon S3 even easier to use. The AWS Management Console now supports Amazon S3, and AWS Import/Export is exiting beta with a new web service interface that accelerates the process of initiating data transfers and migrations.
Amazon S3 Console
The AWS Management Console now provides a simple and intuitive web interface for managing your Amazon S3 resources. You can manage your existing Amazon S3 resources, as well as create new buckets and upload objects to your buckets using the console. The console simplifies managing your Amazon S3 resources by enabling you to:
- Access your Amazon S3 resources from anywhere using a web-based user interface.
- Log in using your AWS account name and password. If you’ve enabled AWS Multi-Factor Authentication, the console will prompt you for your devices authentication code. No need to look up and enter your Access Key ID and Secret Access Key.
- Oversee your AWS resources in a single, convenient location. The AWS Management Console now supports Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and Amazon RDS.
- Manage buckets with billions of objects. The console also works with folders and objects created using many popular third party tools.
To start managing your Amazon S3 resources through the AWS Management Console today, go to console.aws.amazon.com/s3. For more information about Amazon S3 go to aws.amazon.com/s3. Also, feel free to attend our webinar on June 15 for a live tour and discussion of the AWS Management Console’s support for Amazon S3.
AWS Import/Export
AWS Import/Export accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport. The service is exiting beta and is now generally available. Also, a new web service interface augments the email-based interface that was available during the service’s beta. Once a storage device is loaded with data for import or formatted for an export, the new web service interface makes it easy to initiate shipment to AWS in minutes, or to check import or export status in real-time.
You can use AWS Import/Export for:
- Data Migration – If you have data you need to upload into the AWS cloud for the first time, AWS Import/Export is often much faster than transferring that data via the Internet.
- Content Distribution Send data you are computing or storing on AWS to your customers on portable storage devices.
- Direct Data Interchange – If you regularly receive content on portable storage devices from your business associates, you can have the data sent directly to AWS for import into your Amazon S3 buckets.
- Offsite Backup – Send full or incremental backups to Amazon S3 for reliable and redundant offsite storage.
- Disaster Recovery – In the event that you need to quickly retrieve a large backup stored in Amazon S3, use AWS Import/Export to transfer the data to a portable storage device and deliver it to your site.
To use AWS Import/Export, you just prepare a portable storage device, and submit a Create Job request with the open source AWS Import/Export command line application, a third party tool, or by programming directly against the web service interface. AWS Import/Export will return a unique identifier for the job, a digital signature for authenticating your device, and an AWS address to which you ship your storage device. After copying the digital signature to your device, ship it along with its interface connectors and power supply to AWS.
You can learn more about AWS Import/Export and get started using the web service at aws.amazon.com/importexport.
Sincerely,
The Amazon Web Services Team
