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Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack(TM) company, today announced that it is now the community OpenStack infrastructure provider for Cloud Foundry(TM), the industry’s Open Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Piston will continue to be one of Pivotal’s partners for rapid Cloud Foundry deployments, and its Co-founder and CTO, Joshua McKenty, will serve on the Cloud Foundry Advisory Board.

Pivotal selected Piston to provide the initial community OpenStack infrastructure because of their ability to rapidly deploy a complete cloud environment, dynamically scale it to meet the needs of the community as it grows, and Piston’s demonstrated commitment to the open source development project and the Cloud Foundry(TM) ecosystem…

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., the enterprise OpenStack™ company, today announced it will provide live demos of its global-scale private cloud software, Piston OpenStack™ 2.5, at the 2013 VMworld® Conference, taking place August 25 – 29 in San Francisco.

Piston delivers best-of-breed storage, compute and networking virtualization through the OpenStack interfaces, with award-winning service, system orchestration and enhanced enterprise features under the hood. Built on OpenStack Grizzly, product features and benefits in version 2.5 include:…

Grazed from CRN. Author: Kathy Kim.

The U.S. Department of the Interior chose 10 IT companies, including IBM (NYSE:IBM), Verizon (NYSE:VZ) and AT&T (NYSE:T), to compete for a massive, $10 billion cloud computing project. The Department of the Interior said the cloud migration project will be split into 10 IDIQ (indefinite delivery indefinite quantity) contracts that are each worth up to $1 billion. The 10 competing vendors selected by the department are IBM, Verizon, AT&T, Aquilent, Autonomic Resources, CGI, Global Technology Resources, Lockheed Martin, Smartronix and Unisys.

IBM already has been awarded one of the 10 contracts, which is a 10-year cloud hosting service deal. "We’re thrilled because these don’t come along every day and it’s a recognition of our cloud, past performance and technical expertise," said Andy Maner, managing partner of IBM Global Services. "It’s a real advantage for us because we are one of the few that can position seven of the tracks to do transformational projects of a large infrastructure."…

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

No matter what kind of flak Adobe (ADBE) is getting from its customers for the decision to move all of its Creative Suite products away from the store shelf and strictly into the cloud, it does seem like Adobe’s channel partners are finding ways to capitalize on the decision. Following the announcement earlier this month that Adobe was going to change its sales model slightly with the introduction of Adobe Creative Cloud for teams, we now have an Adobe partner using that change as a springboard to boosting its Adobe practice.

Los Angeles-based En Pointe Technologies is a large Microsoft (MSFT) partner that has found success in selling Office 365 to its customer base. Now, the solutions provider is hoping to replicate the success it has experience with Office 365 with Adobe Creative Cloud. And comparatively speaking, Microsoft Office 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud do have very similar business models, so it makes sense. It just so happens, though, that Adobe’s products are a little more niche than the office productivity software suite from Microsoft…

Grazed from Global Newswire. Author: PR Announcement.

As enterprise adoption of cloud computing continues to grow, organizations are now facing the prospect of being locked into a single cloud provider due to a lack of cloud standards. By forcing customers to use their proprietary products, the restrictions on portability, cost competition and ecosystem offerings are mitigating the value of the cloud. Transcend breaks the shackles of cloud lock-in by focusing on:

1. Providing solutions that adhere to the leading cloud API, Amazon Web Services

2. Leveraging today’s most popular cloud platform, OpenStack

3. Offering both open source and commercial licenses that are enterprise ready…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Archana Venkatraman.

As VMware readies to kick off its annual virtualisation and cloud conference, VMworld 2013 later this week, Gartner analyst explains what users can expect at the event and the company’s future in the mobile and cloud era. At the event featuring more than 21,000 customers, partners and system integrators, VMware chief executive Pat Gelsinger will discuss the next generation of IT and how the software-defined datacentre (SDDC) can extend virtualisation and automated management across storage, networking and security.

The term SDDC rose to prominence last year during VMworld 2012 with VMware touting it as the next best thing in IT. A software-defined datacentre is an IT facility where the elements of the infrastructure – networking, storage, CPU and security – are virtualised and delivered as a service and the operation of the entire infrastructure is automated by software…

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.

At the same time, last week’s debate between Randy Bias, CTO of Cloudscaling, and Boris Renski, CMO and co-founder of Mirantis, scored important points about the value of application programming interfaces (APIs) and cloud architecture. And it dealt at length with the wisdom — or lack thereof — of focusing on Amazon APIs while inside the OpenStack project.

The protagonists are two outspoken members of the cloud community. Bias is known for assuming leading positions in the industry without showing any vestige of faintheartedness. At one point during the debate he said he was advocating Amazon APIs because Rackspace was the source of two core sets of APIs already in OpenStack: those for the Nova compute and Swift storage services. Rackspace’s influence is waning in the open source project, he noted, so he had chosen this moment to "kick it in the teeth" and try to correct Rackspace’s early influence in the project…

Grazed from ITProPortal. Author: Anthony Savaas.

European enterprises are currently spending almost one-third of their annual IT budget on cloud computing, spread over private, public and "hybrid" clouds, according to research. But what are the different cloud platforms and how should companies approach their entry into the cloud. The research mentioned was conducted among 455 senior IT staff at large firms, with the data collected by IDG Research Services on behalf of server virtualisation software firm, VMware.

Spending on the cloud and going private first

The study explored the views of IT leaders involved in the purchase process for cloud computing systems across seven EMEA countries, including the UK, and found that 31 percent of IT budgets are now allocated to cloud computing. Of the work taking place in the cloud, the study found that most of it involves private clouds (54 percent), followed by 24 percent in public clouds and 22 percent in public/private hybrid clouds…

Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: Editorial Staff.

The New York Times stated the obvious this evening. And it’s worth repeating: Cloud computing and mobile devices — tablets and smartphones — are pressuring traditional technology giants like Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), IBM and Intel (INTC), among others. So what’s the upshot for channel partners?

Right now it’s BAD to be a technology giant because they are so dependent on aging technology platforms. Savvy channel partners — such as the Top 501 MSPs and the Top 100 Cloud Services Providers — have already shifted their business models. But thousands of resellers and VARs need to wake up and explore additional partnering stategies…

Grazed from Trefis. Author: Editorial Staff.

IBM announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Israel-based Trusteer, a security software company. While the financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed yet, Bloomberg said the acquisition is worth around $800 million citing a person familiar with the deal.

In its 2015 roadmap, IBM stated that cloud computing will be the key driver for revenue growth and has spent billions of dollars building its cloud business globally with a number of acquisitions in the past three years that includes Softlayer, Keneax, DemandTec and Sterling Commerce, etc…