Win A Free Ticket To Forecast 2012 Conference And/Or Deploycon 2012
Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) (previous CloudAve coverage) is running a conference called Forecast 2012 to shape the future of cloud computing. This is an enterprise focussed panel with some interesting keynotes and engaging panels. Check out the agenda for yourselves. ODCA has agreed to give away one ticket to the event for CloudAve readers. [...]
Red Hat Releases The Source Code For Openshift
Red Hat today announced that they are releasing the source code of their Openshift PaaS platform. Red Hat announced that Openshift is open source at the time of release but they didn’t release the source code till now. There are two reasons for this delay: Since Openshift came through Makara acquisition, it is important for [...]
CloudFoundry On OpenStack: PistonCloud Makes It A Reality
Remember BOSH? The open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and life cycle management of very large scale instances of Cloud Foundry, announced a few weeks back? They initially released it with support for VMware infrastructure and Amazon EC2. Since it was open source, there were expectations that others will build the necessary interface for [...]
Salesforce Unveils Government Cloud
US Federal government is one of the largest IT buyers in the world and this clout gives them to dictate terms with the vendors and suppliers. One of their requirements is that the technologies the government agencies use must be compliant to Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requirements. In simplistic terms, the services offered by [...]
Mashery’s Tool Aims To Make APIs The Dominant Enterprise Interface
The way organizations communicate is changing fast. With cloud adoption increasing across businesses of all sizes and shapes, this shift is accelerating even in the enterprise segment. I am talking about APIs becoming the dominant interface for programatic communications between applications. It used to be the domain of some modern web companies, mostly focussed on [...]
dotCloud Ramps Up Their Offering
dotCloud, San Francisco based platform services company letting you build your own platform stack across three data centers, yesterday announced that they are ramping up their platform stack support with support for web sockets, MongoDB 2.0 and vertical scaling. After being relatively quiet for sometime (at least, I didn’t hear much about them), they are [...]
Morphlabs Embraces SSDs
Morphlabs (previous CloudAve coverage), the company offering converged infrastructure solutions to enterprises, today announced that they are using Dell Technology to offer fully Solid State Drive technology based cloud solution. Morphlabs’ mCloud Data Center Unit (DCU) will be powered by the Dell PowerEdge C portfolio, the hyperscale server line developed by the Dell Data Center Solutions [...]
Saba Software Joins Social Business Meme
Saba Software, Redwood California based company with various offerings in the learning and talent management segment, takes a shot at the Social Business space with the announcement of Saba People Cloud. Thanks to large investments by companies like IBM and Salesforce and the associated amplification of the buzzword Social Business, the segment is turning competitive [...]
Heroku hstore: Key Value Store Inside Relational Database
Heroku (previous CloudAve coverage), the PaaS company under Salesforce, announced recently that they will be supporting key value store inside their Postgres database instances. Named hstore, it takes advantage of Postgres’ extensibility. Ever since MySQL was gobbled up by Oracle, Postgres has been getting additional developer love from the community. I am not saying that [...]
Remember Next Gen PaaS and AWS? Here Is The Second Piece To The Puzzle
When Amazon announced the release of DynamoDB, I argued that it was their first step towards joining the PaaS game in its next iteration. I am completely clueless on where Amazon is going but if Amazon has a plan for PaaS (which I am sure they have because PaaS is the future of Cloud Services), [...]
AppSense Trying To Make Personal Clouds Enterprise Worthy
AppSense, the NewYork based company focussed on Virtualization solutions, today announced their research wing, AppSense Labs, focussed on bridging the gap between personal services and enterprise. They also announced their first product under AppSense Labs called DataLocker (iTunes link for iPad and iPhone). This got my attention for two reasons: As the so called consumerization [...]
Citrix Releases CloudStack 3
Citrix (previous CloudAve coverage) today announced the release of CloudStack 3, the open source cloud platform which will let enterprises and service providers roll out Amazon like cloud services. This is the first major release after they acquired Cloud.com last year. First they made an open core product into open source and now the new [...]
IBM’s Worklight Acquisition: Few Thoughts
Two days back IBM announced their plans to acquire Worklight, the Israel based mobile development platform, to beef up their enterprise mobile strategy. IBM realizes that in this era of BYOD/Consumerization of IT, they need to had a strong mobile strategy supporting various platforms. In fact, at the recent Lotusphere 2012 conference, IBM showcased their [...]
Future Of GlusterFS – From Open Core to Open Source
In October of 2011, Red Hat (previous CloudAve coverage) announced the acquisition of Gluster, the company behind GlusterFS (previous CloudAve coverage) open source distributed storage solution. Even though Red Hat is a company based on open source philosophy, there were questions about what is in store for GlusterFS under Red Hat. Last week Red Hat [...]
Tibbr Leaps Forward With GEO Feature And HTML5
Tibbr (previous CloudAve coverage), Tibco’s social tool competing with the likes of Chatter, released a new version, Tibbr 3.5 with two new features which makes the product pretty hot in the market. In fact, I have been pretty impressed with Tibbr by the time it came into the market. Unlike many companies who were totally clueless [...]
