3 More OpenStack Announcements from OSCon: HP Joins OpenStack and More
In addition to the launch of Nebula, ex-NASA CTO Chris Kemp’s OpenStack-based startup which we covered yesterday, there have been some other important announcements regarding OpenStack this week.
HP is joining the OpenStack community, Dell is rolling…
Read More →Ex-NASA CTO Launches OpenStack Appliance Company Nebula
Today at OSCon former NASA CTO Chris Kemp announced his new company Nebula, which will sell an OpenStack based appliance for cloud computing. The appliances are based on the OpenCompute standards. The idea is to make it possible for an organization to…
Read More →Radiant Logic Delivers Enterprise Identity as a Service
Add Identity as a Service to cloud-based services, thanks to an announcement this week from Radiant Logic at the Burton/Gartner Catalyst conference. Radiant had previously announced its RadiantOne Cloud Federation Services earlier this year, and CFS is…
Read More →YouSendIt and ShareFile Add New Features to Cloud Drives
The lines among file sending, collaboration and cloud drive services is blurring with announcements in the past month from two providers, YouSendIt and ShareFile. While it is nice to have choices, it is getting harder to figure out when to use one kind…
Read More →Report Cloud Computing’s Environmental Benefits is Flawed says GreenMonk Analyst
This week the report Cloud Computing – The IT Solution for the 21st Century from the Carbon Disclosure Project has been making rounds in cloud computing circles. The report concludes that large businesses could use cloud computing to cut CO2 emissions…
Read More →Microsoft Research Releases Another Hadoop Alternative for Azure
Today Microsoft Research announced the availability of a free technology preview of Project Daytona MapReduce Runtime for Windows Azure. Using a set of tools for working with big data based on Google’s MapReduce paper, it provides an alternative to Ap…
Read More →Move Your Microsoft Server Licenses to Amazon’s Cloud
Amazon announced a major coup with pricing for Windows Servers on AWS today. Now you can move your licenses from a physical machine to AWS’ cloud, including all Microsoft server apps, such as server versions of Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server and Dyna…
Read More →Spiceworks Makes It Easier to Manage Quotes
Hosted IT management platform Spiceworks is attempting to simplify the IT purchasing process with a new feature announced today: the ability to request quotes from vendors from inside Spiceworks. The Request for Quote will enable Spiceworks users to s…
Read More →Citrix Buys Private Cloud Vendor Cloud.com
This morning Citrix announced its acquisition of Cloud.com, a company that sells virtualization infrastructure for building private clouds. Cloud.com brings with it a number of high profile customers such as Bechtel, GoDaddy, Tata Communications and Z…
Read More →Poll: Dropbox Updated Its ToS Again – Are You Satisfied?
Dropbox has updated its Terms of Service yet again. The latest revision is much more clear about what rights Dropbox reserves with regards to stored content. This follows an uproar over a revision to its terms last week.
Earlier this week we compare…
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