
Cloupia Expands Beyond Flexpod As They Update Their Offerings
Cloupia (previous CloudAve coverage), the Santa Clara based company offering automation and orchestration solutions, announced last week that they are enhancing their product to meet the needs of today’s enterprises and, also, signaled their intent to move beyond Flexpod in the converged infrastructure space (see previous story about Cloupia Flexpod validation). Now their powerful orchestration […]

Flexiant Releases New Version Targeting The Service Provider Market
Flexiant yesterday announced the release of Flexiant 2.0, the updated and highly polished version of their cloud software. Flexiant is a UK based cloud software provider with their heritage from the hosting market. With this Flexiant is telling the world that they are a serious competitor in the Federated Cloud Ecosystem and they are going […]

Simple Workflow Service – Amazon Adding One Enterprise Brick At Time
This week Amazon announced a new orchestration service called Simple Workflow Service. I would encourage you to read the announcement on Werner’s blog where he explains the need, rationale, and architecture. The people I spoke to had mixed reactions. One set of people described this as a great idea and were excited that the developers can […]

Parallels Bets Their Cloud Future On SMBs
As pundits in the Silicon Valley bubble (including the ones whose ideas are shaped by what is happening in the valley) focus more on the AWS, OpenStack and VMwares of the world, there is a company, mostly operating under the radar of these Valley pundits (which includes me), which is slowly but steadily gaining the […]

Ubuntu Ensemble Is Now Juju
Yesterday, the folks at Ubuntu announced that they are renaming Ensemble project as Juju. Since the names Ensemble, Formula and Principia didn’t connect well in their original incarnation, they have decided to move on to a new name. Juju is an African word for magic. While we liked the sophistication and refinement that went along […]