Bitnami Cloud Hosting Makes Self Service Easier
Bitrock (see previous CloudAve coverage), provider of cross platform deployment of open source applications, announced Bitnami cloud hosting earlier this week. It has been in private beta for a while and now it is available for anyone to sign up. To start with they are supporting AWS cloud and soon they will add support for [...]
Will Rackspace Hijack OpenStack Project?
Yesterday the news about Rackspace buying Anso Labs, a cloud computing consulting firm who played a big role in developing the compute part of OpenStack project, came out and sent the cloud punditry scrambling for an opinion about its impact on OpenStack. Gavin Clarke wrote an article on The Register raising some concerns about Rackspace [...]
Couchbase – Consolidation Begins In Big Data Space
One of the common comment from those watching the Big Data space is that there are too many projects that makes it too difficult to chose the right set of tools for the user needs. Well, the consolidation process has started with the merger of Membase (see previous CloudAve coverage), the company supporting open source [...]
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 [...]
OpenERP offers Cloud Option To Their Customers
OpenERP, the open source ERP and business applications provider since 2005, today announced the new version of their offering giving customers choice between on-premise and SaaS options. The new version OpenERP v6, a major upgrade from the previous version that makes implementation and use of a comprehensive set of business applications (CRM, Purchase Management, Manufacturing, [...]
Wikimedia Foundation Is Building Dev Test Infrastructure Using OpenStack
I am very optimistic about the potential of OpenStack (see previous CloudAve Coverage) and how it can help create open federated cloud ecosystem. Even though OpenStack’s Object Storage is ready for production use, its Compute platform is not. It is bound to change in the first quarter of this year but the code in the [...]
Looking Back 2010: OpenStack Offers Promise
Looking Back 2010 is a series of posts I am planning for this week in which I will highlight significant cloud related events that happened in this year. Please keep in mind that these are my personal opinions based on my industry observations this year. My first pick is OpenStack project (see previous CloudAve coverage) [...]
Delicious Will Stay On But What Are The Lessons
Image via CrunchBase Yesterday the techworld went crazy with the news about Yahoo shutting down the popular bookmarking service Delicious. There were calls for keeping the service alive and, as it happened in the case of XMarks, many even offered to pay for the service. The agony didn’t last long as Yahoo’s PR realized the [...]
Open Source And Cloud Computing: Eucalyptus Joins Hand With RedHat Targeting Private Cloud Market
Eucalyptus Systems (see previous CloudAve coverage), the academic project turned commercial venture offering private cloud solutions for enterprises, today announced a partnership with RedHat (see previous CloudAve coverage), leading enterprise Linux vendor who is shifting their focus to cloud computing recently. This partnership suits both the companies and it can go a long way towards [...]
10Gen Raises $6.5M funding To Push MongoDB Ahead In The NoSQL Race
10Gen, the commercial company behind Open Source MongoDB NoSQL database, today announced a $6.5 Million round of funding. This round is lead by Sequoia Capital with participation from prior investors Flybridge Capital Partners and Union Square Ventures. The open source MongoDB database has 90,000 downloads per month and companies like bit.ly, foursquare, IGN and Sourceforge [...]
Mindtouch Wants To Be The Nerve Center Enabling Social Business
Last week I attended Enterprise 2.0 conference and I saw the enthusiasm among businesses to leverage the Social Business tools to greatly increase the productivity within the organization. In my opinion, these social business tools should have the following three essential characteristics (well, there are few others but these are the ones I consider to [...]
Cloud.com Supports RHEL 6
Cloud.com (see previous CloudAve coverage), the open source cloud provider for enterprise and service providers, last week announced that they are supporting RedHat Enterprise Linux 6. This will allow enterprises and service providers to immediately take advantage of the new features available in the newly released RHEL 6 and extend it into cloud using their [...]
Eucalyptus Open To OpenStack
Eucalyptus Systems (see previous CloudAve coverage here), the open source academic project which turned into a commercial offering for enterprises, appears to be open about OpenStack (see previous CloudAve coverage here), its biggest Open Source competitor in the space. When OpenStack was established, NASA moved Nebula development from Eucalyptus to OpenStack. Many perceived OpenStack to [...]
Bottom Up Adoption, CIOs Watch Out
Yesterday I was at a dinner on the sidelines of Enterprise 2.0 conference and during the dinner, everyone present was asked to offer their thoughts on what is happening in the space. Since my focus is more on Open Source and Cloud Computing, I was more of a bystander in this space than an expert. [...]
SaaS Startups Should Check Out CouchDB First
Ever since Oracle acquired MySQL, there is a lingering question in the minds of SaaS companies that had relied heavily on MySQL and the analysts who follow the space closely. It is about the impact of this acquisition on the SaaS providers. While thinking about the impact of any adverse move by Oracle on SaaS [...]
