OpenStack Vibes Around CloudConnect
CloudConnect 2012 at Santa Clara, the conference organized by UBM, has come to an end. This week, there were quite a few OpenStack (previous CloudAve coverage) related news and I thought I will do a single blog post talking about them. Some of them came during the event and some outside of it. This post [...]
Cloupia Gets Flexpod Validation As They Push Hard Into Converged Infrastructure Space
Cloupia (previous CloudAve coverage), the Santa Clara based startup offering automation and orchestration solutions, today announced that their FlexPod Management and Automation solution is validated by Cisco and NetApp. This is a big boost for the startup taking a different route compared to the other cloud management players. Unlike companies like Rightscale which are solely [...]
Quick Take: AT&T Joins OpenStack
OpenStack (previous CloudAve coverage) got a big boost today with the announcement that AT&T is joining the OpenStack community. According to a blog post by AT&T, they are becoming the first US Telco to join OpenStack community. We also announced today that AT&T has become the first U.S. telecom services provider to join the OpenStack [...]
Will You Pay 15% More For Converged Infrastructure?
As tech media goes in an overdrive highlighting the game changing nature of cloud computing, enterprises are embracing converged infrastructure at an increasing rate. Some predictions that came out at the end of 2010 claimed that 30% of the data centers will use converged infrastructure in the next 2-3 years. I am not sure how [...]
BMC Updates Its Workload Automation Tool
BMC, one of the leading Business Service Management Software companies, today announced significant update to their workload automation tool, Control-M. Control-M is BMC’s solution to help enterprise automate their workloads, instead of a more traditional scheduling, across mainframes, distributed, virtual, hybrid and cloud environments. Control-M is pushed as a one stop solution that eliminates the [...]
Rackspace Private Cloud: Repackaging Fanatical Support Around OpenStack
Yesterday Rackspace announced Rackspace Cloud Private Edition, a repackaging of their Cloud Builder services around the OpenStack product. If you want to hear a purely open source perspective on this move, I recommend you to read Christian Reilly’s article on the topic. However, I am going to approach the topic from the business strategy point [...]
enStratus On A Roll
enStratus (previous CloudAve coverage), the Minneapolis based company focussing on cloud governance, has raised $3.5 Million according to this MarketBrief from SEC filing. Enstratus Networks, Inc reported today in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission it had raised $3.5M of a $4M private offering. Companies file this special form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange [...]
Cloudability Opens To Public
Cloudability, the Portland based startup, today opened up to public after staying in private beta since June. They launched in GigaOm’s Structure Conference this year and their SaaS offering is targeted towards cloud users who are worried about surprises in their next bill. Right now, their service is free and I am expecting them to [...]
Contegix Moves Beyond VMware To Offer Their Cloud Solutions
Contegix, St. Louis based managed hosting provider morphing into a cloud provider, this week unveiled their cloud strategy with the introduction of their Miracloud platform. Contegix is offering a public cloud service with a twist. Unlike Amazon Web Services who offer a self service cloud solution, they offer tiered cloud services where the lowest tier, [...]
10gen Announces $20 M Funding And MongoDB 2.0 Is Out
10gen (previous CloudAve coverage), the company behind open source MongoDB database (previous CloudAve coverage), today announced a new round of funding worth $20 Million backed by Sequoia Capital with the support of existing investors, Flybridge Capital and Union Square Ventures. 10gen has raised $31 Million since their inception in 2007. This will help 10gen to expand [...]
Loss Of Control And Transparency In The Cloud Era
One of the biggest worries organizations have about cloud computing is the unexpected outages and the impact of associated disruptions. In fact, some of the traditional vendors use this very issue to push FUD among their customers so that they can lock them in for the foreseeable future. Similarly, if anyone evangelizing cloud tells you [...]
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 [...]
When Network Is Part of Your Social Graph
Technology is completely reshaping both our personal lives and business activities. We are living in an era where the rate of technological evolution outpaces our adoption rate. We are soon going to be living in a world where technology completely automates the way we live and change our lives in ways we cannot comprehend today. [...]
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 [...]
