Verizon Acquires CloudSwitch To Beef Up Terremark Enterprise Cloud
Verizon (previous CloudAve coverage) yesterday announced that they are acquiring CloudSwitch (previous CloudAve coverage), the Burlington based company founded in 2008 to make life easy for enterprises to extend their datacenter into the cloud, for an undisclosed sum. With this move, Verizon has made it even more clear that they are serious about the enterprise [...]
Eucalyptus Bets On High Availability With Their Exclusive Enterprise Focus
Eucalyptus Systems (previous CloudAve coverage), the cloud platform player with a core enterprise focus, today announced the forthcoming release of Eucalyptus 3.0. With this new release, Eucalyptus is taking the “high availability” mantra to lure enterprises when the buzz around the cloud world is the Amazon outage. More than the buzz surrounding the outages, Eucalyptus [...]
Now You Can Run Geographically Distributed Clouds With Nimbula
Nimbula (previous CloudAve coverage), the company that helps enterprises build Amazon EC2 like cloud inside their data centers, today announced the release of Nimbula Director 1.5. Nimbula Director is their flagship product that completely abstracts away all the complexity of the underlying infrastructure and offers a way to scale the cloud to thousands of nodes [...]
Opscode Chef, The Secret Sauce Behind Dell Open Source Crowbar
Dell recently announced an OpenStack cloud solution that came with an installer, called Crowbar, which makes installation of OpenStack Cloud on bare metal servers seamless and less time consuming. In fact, with Crowbar, one can install OpenStack cloud on a rack within 30 mins or so. Dell has decided to open source Crowbar under Apache [...]
Dell Takes On Proprietary Clouds With An OpenStack Solution
Last week at OSCON 2011, Dell unveiled Dell OpenStack Cloud, its OpenStack based solution to go against the likes of IBM targeting both the enterprise and service provider markets. While talking about Dell’s attempts against the unified computing efforts by IBM, Cisco, HP and Oracle, I highlighted how Dell is taking a more “open” approach [...]
OSCON Week: Piston Cloud Computing, Redhat Of OpenStack
Earlier this month, Piston Cloud Computing Inc. was launched with $4.5 Million funding from True Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Divergent Ventures and others. It was founded by lead architect at NASA’s Nebula Cloud infrastructure, Joshua McKenty, along with Chris MacGown, formerly from Slicehost. Piston Computing is a typical example of what an open source project [...]
VMware Highlights Enterprise Clouds With vSphere 5
VMware (previous CloudAve coverage), the leader in virtualization space with some interesting cloud moves, recently announced Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Suite, a repackaged version of their offerings targeting the enterprise market and service providers. VMware has been struggling to get their cloud infrastructure services game going even though their PaaS and SaaS strategy are in strong [...]
Citrix Acquires Cloud.com: An Analysis
Citrix (previous CloudAve coverage), the virtualization player who is gaining some decent traction recently, today announced the acquisition of Cloud.com (previous CloudAve coverage), the open source cloud platform player with considerable traction on the side of Telcos, Service providers and even enterprises. Initially, Citrix will push the Cloud.com product lines and Citrix branded versions will [...]
Survey Says Scalability And Costs Are Driving Cloud Adoption
A survey done by vendors, Bitnami, Cloud.com and Zenoss, shows that the user adoption of cloud computing is driven largely by needs for scalability and cost savings. The survey was conducted by these companies in the communities around their open source projects. The survey polled 500 IT professionals, 40 percent of whom were CTOs, architects and [...]
eHarmony Says Cloud Is Expensive
One of the biggest selling points made by many of the cloud vendors is the lower cost of cloud services compared to the in-house solutions. Even though traditional vendors pushed back on this idea, it didn’t stand out because they usually mixed FUD with some solid arguments on the cost. In fact, for a long [...]
Open Source And Cloud Computing: Ubuntu Eucalyptus Divorce Finalized
When Canonical (previous CloudAve coverage) announced sometime back that they will support OpenStack in the Ubuntu Enterprise Edition, pundits were wondering about the fate of Eucalyptus in UEC. When Eucalyptus announced partnership with RedHat, I thought it was a right move with Ubuntu cozying up with OpenStack. Then, there is the question of “Why RedHat [...]
Some Lessons From AWS Outage
Yesterday’s AWS outage has been buzzing around the tech blogosphere even after 24+ hours. As usual naysayers of cloud are up in the arms trying not to miss the golden opportunity to create FUD and competitors to Amazon are tapping into their misery to push their services. Well, people are tuned to accept this as [...]
Should AWS Be The Definition Of Cloud Computing?
Recently, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances to meet the needs of enterprise customers they are trying to lure. After the revamp of their VPC offering, this is another surprise from Amazon aimed squarely at the enterprise customers worried about multi-tenancy. With Amazon EC2 dedicated instances, enterprise customers can get [...]
Cloud.com Releases New Version And Gains Momentum
Cloud.com (see previous CloudAve coverage), the open source cloud platform provider formerly known as VMOps, recently announced the new version of their cloud platform, CloudStack 2.2, with some cool features. They have also showcases some of their customers and have promised to showcase more in the coming weeks and months. I have been following Cloud.com [...]
OpenStack Bexar Release: What Makes It Interesting?
Last week, OpenStack Project (see previous CloudAve coverage) announced the release of their second release codenamed Bexar. This brings OpenStack closer to production deployment and we can expect to see news about OpenStack deployments both from service providers and enterprise. This release not only marked some maturity in the code but the announcement also carries [...]
