GoGrid Head Sets Eyes on Open Cloud Orchestration Engine
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
GoGrid founder and CEO John Keagy is hoping to bring together companies interesting in open source cloud that feel threatened by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create an open cloud orchestration engine. His project, which was recently unveiled, has been dubbed OpenOrchestration.org—more or less following suit with most open source cloud projects that have been launched over the last few years.
CRN broke the story about Keagy’s latest project, which it noted has been in progress and under wraps for several months. According to the article, Keagy has been slowly courting other major technology vendors in the hopes they’ll join the OpenOrchestration.org project to create a universal orchestration engine designed for clouds. And it’s clear he has AWS in his target sights…
Big Blue’s future is unclear as it struggles to keep up with innovators and please investors. Its share price has dropped 11% this year, versus a 23% gain for the S&P 500 Information Technology Index. The century-old tech company has reported eight consecutive quarterly revenue declines; its annual revenue has hovered at about $100 billion since 2007.
Competition surrounding OpenStack in western Europe is heating up. Mirantis has announced the opening of a new facility in France, a move that comes shortly after Red Hat’s acquisition last week of eNovance, another OpenStack specialist with roots in the same country. Mirantis already has a strong presence in California and in eastern Europe (specifically, Russia, Ukraine and Poland), as well as an office in the Netherlands.
ownCloud, the open source file sharing and syncing platform, is aiming to provide a "Dropbox-like" experience, in its own words—as well as to blur the line demarcating private from public clouds by letting users share file between ownCloud instances. That’s all part of ownCloud 7 Community Edition, the latest version of the platform, which has been released in beta form.
Emeryville, California-based SellPoints used the cloud to create a completely new line of business based on the market insights it was generating from customers’ data. Driven by performance marketing and analytics vice president Benny Blum, the company adopted a cloud computing solution to crunch their own big data product in 2012 using Hadoop as a service from provider Altiscale.
Cloud computing player Joyent, one of VMware’s most vocal competitors, is about to announce a management shake-up that is somewhat of a coup. The company has hired a new CEO, Scott Hammond, who was formerly running Cisco’s cloud computing software business. Hammond will replace Henry Wasik as the outgoing CEO. The formal announcement will go out on Thursday, we’re told. Hammond landed at Cisco when it bought a company called Newscale in 2011 for an undisclosed sum. He was CEO. That was his third successful exit including two Internet startups from 1990’s sold before the bubble burst.
In a big-picture sense, the story of this decade’s tech is the story of decentralized computing: the vanishing of locational and structural constraints on the backbone of business infrastructure. The business world’s introduction to this concept came with the cloud, still a carefully delineated place away from the fabric of the business itself- the cloud for storage, the cloud for hosting. But what’s really changing the way we work these days is the integration of these technologies directly into the workflow, and nowhere is that more obvious than in the explosion of Hadoop.
Information technology (IT) systems consulting company, Computer Science Corporation ( CSC ) has strengthened its position in the cloud cybersecurity service market by expanding its portfolio. The expanded offerings include cloud-based solutions, which will provide users a secure and flexible network. With computing going mobile and moving to the cloud, the security needs of corporate networks are also changing. CSC solutions are designed to address these evolving needs.