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Updated: Openstack.org – A Rackspace Hailmary Pass?

August 30, 2010

Analysis

Last week, Clouderati Twitter stream was full of back and forth arguments on possible dumping of Amazon API by Openstack. It all started with a recent Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group meetup on Openstack. One of the takeaways from the meeting is th…

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Cloud.com Offers Support For VMware

August 23, 2010

Analysis

Cloud.com, cloudcomputing, Nimbula, OpenStack, Peder Ulander, VMware, VMware vSphere

Cloud.com, formerly VMOps and the company offering a seamless way to deploy and manage hybrid cloud infrastructure for both enterprises and service providers, has announced support for VMware vSphere 4.1 and vCenter server today. During VMworld, they will be…

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Nimbula Raises 15 Million Series B Round To Shore Up Private Cloud Offering

August 23, 2010

Analysis

Nimbula, the company founded by two engineers who were part of the original Amazon EC2 team, today announced that they have raised 15 Million in Series B round of financing. This round was mainly lead by Accel partners. Nimbula was…

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PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Why Microsoft Should Focus On PaaS

August 19, 2010

Analysis

After a hiatus, I am going to touch the “PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services” series again. When I wrote the post on Rightscale’s support for Windows, I linked to the Rightscale blog post where they had highlighted the difficulties with Windows instan…

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Rightscale Now Supports Windows Servers Bringing Parity With Linux

August 17, 2010

Analysis

Rightscale, the leading cloud management vendor, today announced support for Windows based applications on the cloud. This puts the support for Windows applications on par with Linux based ones, making cloud automation, management and portability …

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Ubuntu Is Ready For A Multi-Touch Future

August 17, 2010

Analysis

As more and more touch based devices flood the market, open source community is looking for support to such devices in the Linux distros. Ubuntu is almost ready to take on the proliferation of such devices in their upcoming Ubuntu 10.10.10 (Maverick Me…

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Some Observations On Google’s Mobile Strategy

August 12, 2010

Analysis

Today, Techmeme is full of news coming from Google’s Mobile press event. The two interesting announcement from Google areA way to instantly send links, maps, etc. to Android phones from desktops. It is a clever interplay between three Google properties…

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VMware Has Plans For Zimbra

August 11, 2010

Analysis

Ever since VMware acquired Zimbra from Yahoo in January of 2010, there were speculations about VMware plans up the stack. VMware hasn’t talked about their strategy at the application layer of the cloud stack yet but they are taking steps to integrate …

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Rackspace Offers Windows Cloud Servers

August 10, 2010

Analysis

Today, Rackspace announced the release of Windows based Cloud Servers to compete with Amazon EC2 Windows instances and Windows Azure. According to Rackspace, the new service delivers a highly scalable environment ideal for Windows-based hosting, testi…

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Did We Get The Cloud Infrastructure Business Wrong?

August 6, 2010

Analysis

The conventional wisdom among the pundits covering Infrastructure services is that cloud infrastructure business is a high volume low margin business. Some pundits even dismissed Amazon Web Services because they are not going up the stack to different…

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