Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST
With Cloud Expo 2012 New York (10th Cloud Expo) just four months away, what better time to start introducing you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical and strategy sessions at the conference...
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AMD said late Tuesday that its chief sales officer Emilio Ghilardi had left the company and that CEO and president Rory Read is going to do his job while a replacement is sought.
AMD didn’t say why Ghilardi left but it’s assumed Read wants his own people. Read is relatively new to th...
Red Hat is putting its bought-in Gluster scale-out NAS storage technology,
acquired in October, on the Amazon cloud.
It’s styled Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services and
other clouds are supposed to follow in short order.
A new episode of the screencast series is now available at the OpenNebula YouTube Channel.
This screencast demonstrates the new easily-customizable self-service portal for cloud consumers. Its aim is to offer a simplified access to shared infrastructure for non-IT end users. The scree...
C12G Labs has just announced an update release of OpenNebulaPro, the enterprise edition of the OpenNebula Toolkit. OpenNebula 3.2, released two weeks ago, brings important benefits to cloud providers with a new easily-customizable self-service portal for cloud consumers, and builders w...
Seems just the other day – actually it was two weeks ago – that we divined that HP, imagining blowing Google away, would pull out the stops to get the webOS that it bought, put in a tablet that failed in the market, dropped, then open sourced – life’s funny like that – in shape to publ...
The first OpenStack-based cloud operating system came out Wednesday.
The start-up Piston Cloud Computing Inc delivered the thing, which makes sense since Piston’s founders were instrumental in OpenStack, which is a framework, not a product. The widgetry is called Piston Enterprise OS...
The OpenNebula project has just announced the availability of the stable release of OpenNebula 3.2. This release of OpenNebula features important improvements in security, networking and user management, and fully integrates C12G addons, previously only available for OpenNebulaPro cust...
AT&T has joined OpenStack.
It’s the first US telecom service provider to sign up for the free Rackspace-NASA-spawned open source cloud initiative.
AT&T CTO John Donovan said AT&T has been participating in OpenStack for more than a year and has contributed a blueprint for a potentia...
AMD has named Rajan Naik chief strategy officer, reporting to CEO Rory Read.
Naik, 40, was a partner in McKinsey’s technology practice. His charter will embrace both the company’s short- and long-term strategy development, including market opportunities, strategic partnerships and in...
Open-Xchange, the supplier of business-class email and collaboration software for cloud providers, has announced the appointment of Carsten Dirks as chief operating officer (COO).
Responsible for engineering, professional services, support, key account management and administration, D...
“We just came to market a few months ago with iON, which is our cloud platform – it’s a cloud platform as a service that provides integration platform services. There are several different flavors of PaaS and iON is an integration platform, and iPaaS,” notes Greg Schott, President and ...
OpenNebula 3.2 will be released in a few days. Along with other major features, it will include a new easy-to-use web-based end-user interface: OpenNebula Self-Service. This new GUI will complement the existing GUIs for the operation of the cloud (OpenNebula Sunstone) and for the manag...
A new episode of the screencast series is now available at the OpenNebula YouTube account.
This screencast shows the ability of the oZones component to manage several instances (zones) of OpenNebula, potentially hosted within the same data center to enhance isolation, scalability and ...
“CloudStack grew out of Cloud.com. It’s an open source product, and as the product gains maturity and gains market share we have started to see real contribution coming back,” observes Shannon Williams, President and Vice President, Market Development, Cloud Platforms at Citrix Systems...
As 2011 draws to an end, we'd like to review what this year has meant for the OpenNebula project and give you a peek at what you can expect from us in 2012. You have all the details about the great progress that we have seen for the OpenNebula project in our monthly newsletters that we...
The Apache Software Foundation, where Oracle sent OpenOffice in June after it adjured the stuff, said Tuesday that it will put out OpenOffice 3.4 in the first quarter whose code will all be under the Apache license, resolving lingering incompatibility issues.
It used what was ostensi...
Microsoft added a trial version of Apache’s open source Hadoop to its Windows Azure PaaS Monday as it said it would in October when it teamed up with Hortonworks, the Yahoo spin-off.
It gives Azure Big Data capabilities and advanced data analytics and a better shot at competing with ...
StorSimple is supporting the OpenStack ecosystem with its cloud storage appliances by integrating with Rackspace’s underlying Cloud Files.
It said the move reflects “industry demand for solutions that bring the economics of public cloud services to the enterprise data center.”
Usin...
OpenNebula, the open source cloud project managed by C12G Labs, has announced the availability of the first beta release of OpenNebula 3.2. OpenNebula is the Industry standard for on-premise IaaS cloud computing, offering the most feature-rich, flexible solution for the comprehensive m...
ActuateOne, built on open source BIRT technology, is the leading embedded business intelligence solution for independent software vendors (ISVs) looking to maximize their product portfolios and meet evolving user needs. For over ten years ISVs have leveraged Actuate and BIRT technology...
Open source software and Business Intelligence are two related market segments where Forrester sees continually increasing interest and adoption levels. BI specifically continues to be one of the top priorities on everyone’s mind.
Comparing open source BI technologies is often an appl...
A new era of Business Intelligence is unfolding with users buying and deploying BI either with or without cooperation from IT. Because of this shift, users now have many choices and need to make the best decision when it comes to BI features, functionality and price.
Stay up-to-date ...
OpenXava is a framework for Rapid Java Web Development, well-suited for business and database oriented applications.
OpenXava allows you develop applications just by writing simple domain classes with Java or Groovy. The user interface is generated automatically in runtime, without co...
Open-Xchange, the supplier of business-class email and collaboration software for cloud providers, announced on Tuesday it expects to again double its number of users -- reaching 80 million paid mailboxes by the end of 2012, making it among the world's largest providers.
The company i...
Typemock, a provider and pioneer of unit testing solutions, has announced it has been selected to participate in Red Hat Innovate, a new initiative launched by Red Hat in Israel. The initiative is designed to assist software development start-up companies based in Israel to leverage t...
Rackspace has made Lew Moorman president.
He will continue to report to CEO and now ex-president Lanham Napier.
Moorman was previously president, cloud and chief strategy officer. The company said he will continue to own strategy and product development, including cloud computing t...
Unable to turn a buck on the thing after killing the tablet and smartphones it was meant to power, HP said Friday that it’s going to open source webOS, the mobile operating system it got last year when it bought Palm for a sweet $1.2 billion.
It claims there is still an “opportunity ...
Greenplum, the Big Data open source database outfit that EMC bought, announced a singular next-generation Unified Analytics Platform (UAP) Thursday that will combine its database for structure data with Greenplum Hadoop for unstructured data – either the open source Apache Hadoop or th...
Open-Xchange, the supplier of business-class email and collaboration software for cloud providers, announced on Tuesday an agreement with Openprovider to be the exclusive distributor of Open-Xchange in The Netherlands. Openprovider will make hosted Open-Xchange available to resellers, ...
The OpenNebula Project has just announced that the OpenNebula add-ons will be released under Apache license and incorporated into the main distribution of OpenNebula. The LDAP authentication, the accounting toolset and the VMWare support will be included in subsequent OpenNebula releas...
C12G Labs announced today a major new release of OpenNebulaPro, the enterprise edition of the OpenNebula Toolkit. The third generation of OpenNebula, released two months ago, is helping many organizations make the transition toward the next generation of cloud infrastructures by suppor...
Convirture announces that its ConVirt virtualization and cloud management software, which is used by companies worldwide to manage large variety of virtual and cloud environments based on the KVM and Xen hypervisors, is now certified to run on the following operating systems.
"We are ...
After casting a pall on the future of Flash by canceling any further development of Flash on mobile devices last week, Abode has abandoned its Flash-based Flex application SDK to the tender mercies of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), reinforcing the idea that Flash is ultimately t...
Back in November 2007 (four years ago!) we published the first OpenNebula project website (see what it looked like back then, thanks to the Internet Archive), as we geared up for our first release of code (which did not take place until March 2008). The OpenNebula project was created a...
LuxCloud, a vendor-independent SaaS distribution platform in Europe, has announced the availability of white-labeled Open-Xchange email and collaboration delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS).
Open-Xchange - which will be unbranded -- is a key part of LuxCloud´s automated cloud se...
Rackspace has turned OpenStack into a product and is pushing it into private clouds where it will meet competition from that other open source cloud Eucalyptus.
The free new OpenStack-based widgetry is called Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition and it’s the first time Rackspace has exte...
As soon as the market closed Thursday, AMD said it was going to lay off 1,400 people, upwards of 10% of its worldwide staff.
Seems they are the wrong people and it wants to trade them in for people who can get it into low power, the cloud and emerging markets, all deemed more profita...
With Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (9th Cloud Expo) starting today Monday November 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let's introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the conference...
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After the release of OpenNebula 3.0 (IRIS), C12G Labs is pleased to announce that a development version of the OpenNebula Addons has been contributed to the OpenNebula Project. The major objective with this release is to provide compatiblity between the Addons and the new OpenNebula 3....
