OpenStack Adds Private Cloud-Building Features
OpenStack, one of several open source options for building a private cloud, launched its fourth release in a little over a year on Thursday with several features that make it easier to manage an enterprise cloud.
OpenStack is the big open source project founded by NASA and Rackspace in July 2010 that competes with Eucalyptus Systems, an Amazon Web Services compatible offering, and Nimbula, a vendor neutral cloud operating system from the architects of AWS’ EC2. In addition, three startups–Piston Cloud Computing, Cloud.com, and Nebula–have adopted OpenStack as the basis of their commercial offerings, making it the favorite for building a private cloud. Former NASA CTO Chris Kemp left the space agency in order to found Nebula, a private cloud appliance company, which launched in July of this year; the appliance runs OpenStack software…
Cloud Company Xtium Raises Series A
Xtium, a provider of cloud computing services to businesses, raised an $11.5 million Series A round of investment from OpenView Venture Partners. As part of the funding, Scott Maxwell, senior managing director at OpenView, will join the company’s board. Xtium provides such services as disaster recovery and virtual hosting. The deal is the third in the Philadelphia area for Boston-based OpenView within the last month, following its investments in Monetate Inc. and NextDocs Corp…
Video: Steve Jobs Talks About Cloud Computing In 1997
It has more or less become passé to call Steve Jobs a visionary, but it never fails to surprise us just how forward thinking he’s always been.
Check out this video from 1997 where he gives an impromptu talk on cloud computing — "Never have I seen something more powerful than this computation combined with this network that we now have…in the last 7 years, do you know how many times I’ve lost any personal data? Zero. Do you know how many times I’ve backed up my computer? Zero."
The Importance of Knowing the Difference Between Virtualization and Cloud Computing
Microsoft raised some eyebrows when Corporate VP Brad Anderson boldly proclaimed that, “Virtualization is not cloud computing.” While this statement garnered a lot of buzz due to its timing – Anderson said this during the VMWorld annual event – that doesn’t make this statement any less true…
Cloud Computing: EMC Puts Together 1,000-Node Hadoop Care Package
EMC, well, at least its Greenplum unit has put together a thousand-node multi-tenant analytics platform to accelerate the development and testing of the disruptive but persnickety open source Apache Hadoop software.
That’s 1,000-odd hardware nodes or 10,000 nodes when you count virtual machines, along with 24PT of physical storage. In a word, that’s huge…
Autodesk aims to take 3D design, engineering to the cloud
Grazed from ZD Net. Author: Rachel King.
Design is a sector where cloud computing has the potential to revolutionize multiple industries, according to Autodesk, the 3D design software firm and maker of AutoCAD.
Cloud computing has become “completely pervasive, totally accepted and people don’t really think twice about these things now,” explained Andrew Anagnost, vice president of suite, web services and subscriptions for Autodesk…
The Cloud Diagnosed By IT. And It Isn’t Pretty
As the long-anticipated backlash against cloud computing begins, I want to thank technology journalist and IT consultant Frank J. Ohlhorst for making the strongest case yet for the anti-cloud camp… and in the process making the case for the cloud stronger than ever…
Five Ways To Get A Piece Of The Cloud Market
If you’re an IT solution provider not into cloud computing, you’re letting a substantial chunk of change pass you by. Spending on public cloud computing generates $21.5 billion in revenue according to IDC, and that number will balloon to $72.9 billion by 2015. You’ve got to play to win, as the saying goes. Here are five ways to approach that very lucrative market…
Tenant-based Cloud Security: Not a Contradiction
The current running joke in the IT industry is that everything is labeled “cloud.” Whether data center customers are leveraging the cloud or not, arguably every technology provider is claiming to either “consume” or provide services in the cloud…
Events: Webinar to offer tips on cloud computing for government IT
Grazed from American City and Country. Author: PR Announcement.
Facing tighter budgets and increased demands for transparency, worker flexibility and customer service, many states and local agencies are moving government IT functions to the cloud. Exactly how to do that will be the focus of a webinar on Oct. 11, 2011, during the State & Local Government Summit….
Several experts from Microsoft’s State & Local Government team will be presenting a session titled, “Soup to Nuts: Harnessing the Complete Power of the Public Cloud.” During the 45-minute webinar, they will explain how agencies can use the cloud to offer interactive citizen portals, increase collaboration across organizations, reduce government IT costs, and more.