IBM Announces FISMA Compliant Social Cloud – Will It Make Govt. Efficient?
After a soft release in early October, IBM has announced that they are releasing a social cloud targeting the US government agencies. This is a set of social and collaboration tools IBM is building on top of Federal Community Cloud they announced last year. Federal community cloud are secure, private cloud environments, part of IBM’s established […]
Poll: Is Google Apps Enterprise Ready?
Google has been pushing Google Apps as a cloud based alternative to Microsoft. Even though they are steadily improving Google Apps to meet the needs of the enterprise customers, there is a widespread feeling that it is not enterprise ready. In the last month alone, I have spoken to almost ten IT managers (including some […]
#cloudscale
We, the cloud computing evangelists and pundits, talk a lot about the scale offered by cloud platforms. There were three more examples to the idea of #cloudscale today. I just thought I will do a quick evening note to highlight these stories. Rightscale launched its 3 Millionth server last night Eucalyptus platform can now scale […]
VoltDB releases Their New Version Targeting Better Performance And Durability
VoltDB, an in-memory database designed by well known database researchers like Michael Stonebraker, last week announced the release of their new version with features focussed at performance, durability and easy out of the box experience. One of the reasons VoltDB came into my radar was due to their open source roots. In the age of […]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: AppFog Adds Ruby And Node.js Support
Appfog (previous CloudAve coverage), the PaaS player previously known as PHPFog, today announced support for Ruby and Node.js on their platform. This is nothing new or surprising and I can even say that this completes the process of removing any differentiation in terms of language support among the PaaS providers (yeah, I know that there […]
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 […]
Platfora Closes Series A Funding To Help Make Sense Out Of Your (Big) Data
Platfora, the company with a mission to bring clarity to your data, today announced series A funding worth $5.7 Million to expand their rich analytics tool for Hadoop. After the cloud euphoria, it is the turn of big data to get the mindshare of pundits and public. This space is crowded and competitive. Platfora is […]
Gluster Adds Hadoop Support To Offer An Open Source Petabyte Storage Alternative
Last week Gluster (previous CloudAve coverage), provider of open source storage solutions, announced the beta version of their next release with support for open source Hadoop. With this announcement, Gluster is targeting to be the open source alternative to proprietary storage solutions in the petabyte age. GlusterFS will use standard filesystem APIs available in Hadoop […]
Commerce In The Networked World: Mashery leads The Way
Mashery (previous CloudAve coverage), the enterprise-grade API provider, today announced the availability of Distributed Commerce, an API platform that takes the commerce to the doorsteps of modern day networked users. In this era of smartphones, tablets and social networks, users expect vendors to bring commerce to where they are than going to an e-commerce website. […]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Engine Yard Acquires Orchestra
I am sure regular readers of this blog are convinced that PaaS is the future of Cloud Services. We are seeing this trend happening now with so much action on the PaaS front. Today Engine Yard (previous CloudAve coverage) reacted to the market trend and announced the acquisition of Orchestra, the Irish PHP PaaS company. […]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudFoundry Lines Up Deployment Partners
This is next in the series of post where I am highlighting the importance of PaaS in the future of cloud services. VMware’s CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage) has completely altered the PaaS landscape with a first multi-cloud, multi-language open source platform. While the platform has clearly won the hearts of both pundits and developers, there […]
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 […]
Tablets In The Enterprise: Workday and Box Announce Tablet Apps
From the days when we considered iPads in the enterprise as an exciting new trend, we have slowly moved into a world where tablets are a norm from boardroom to IT admins. In fact, it has become a defacto device for many of the top level executives, thereby, forcing cloud application providers to offer a […]
Intel Joins Hands With Academia For Cloud Computing Research
Intel (previous CloudAve coverage), the chipmaker with increasing focus on cloud computing, yesterday announced a $30M investment in research on the future of cloud and embedded computing. As a part of this investment, Intel will set up two Intel Science and Technology Centers (ISTC) at Carnege Mellon University, a leading research organization in the field of […]
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 […]
