
Bitnami, Hupstream & Basho Release VMs with Microsoft Open Interoperability VM Depot for Azure
Today Microsoft released, with partnerships with a number of companies including Basho, Hupstream and Bitnami, the VM Depot. I’ve always followed Bitnami, so it’s really cool to see their VM releases for Jenkins (CI Build Server), WordPress, Ruby 1.9.3 stack, Node.js and about everything you can imagine out their along side our Basho Riak CentOS image. […]

AWS Launches a Marketplace–Proof that Much of the Value is Further Up the Stack
Summary – it’s a long post so here’s what you need to know. Amazon Web Services is moving up the stack. Existing ecosystem partners will benefit from that in the short term but it’s a risk for them long term. Other infrastructure vendors will surely follow suit. It’s game on! Now if you have the […]

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 […]

Bitnami Makes Deploying SugarCRM on AWS Easy
Bitnami (see previous CloudAve coverage), whose platform allows easy deployment of open source applications across multiple cloud providers, today partnered with SugarCRM (see previous CloudAve coverage) to make it easy to run SugarCRM Professional, Enterprise and Community editions on AWS using Bitnami Cloud Hosting. With this partnership, Bitnami Cloud Hosting becomes the preferred method of […]

AWS CloudFormation: Poaching The Ecosystem?
Amazon Web Services (see previous CloudAve coverage) today announced AWS CloudFormation, which lets developers and system admins use recipes to create and provision resources in Amazon cloud. This is conceptually similar to Opscode’s Chef Recipes which lets ops folks configure some aspect of the systems in their ecosystem. Clearly, AWS must have seen how Chef […]

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 […]

Open Source And Cloud Computing: How Bitnami Helps Launch Open Source Apps On EC2 In 2 Minutes
When Amazon announced the release of Amazon Micro Instances, I was excited about how useful it will be for SMBs. Amazon Micro Instances + Open Source software solves one of the problems faced by SMBs. Some pundits outright dismissed the possibility of using Micro Instances for web hosting. Even though I agree that Micro Instances […]
Bitrock Makes Cloud App Deployments Easier With BitNami Studio
Bitrock, the company that provides tools and services to package, deploy and update software, has announced the release of Bitnami Studio, a self service GUI based platform to package and deploy applications to the clouds. It offers choice from the underlying operating systems to middleware/runtime to applications to the users so that they can easily […]