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  • GreenQloud Goes Hybrid – QStack Built On Top Of CloudStack

    February 25, 2014

    Business
    cloud computing, CloudStack, dropbox, GreenQLoud, Iceland, Open source, OpenStack, Scality
     

    I’m a big fan of Icelandic cloud vendor GreenQloud (more on them here) for a number of reasons – firstly they’ve managed to differentiate what they do without resorting to post-Snowden fear mongering. In GreenQloud’s case it’s all about…

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  • On Standards in the Cloud

    July 15, 2013

    Business
    amazon-web-service, AWS, cloud computing, CloudStack, OpenStack, PayPal, Simon Wardley, VMware
     

    Cross posted from Diginomica The other day I wrote a post reflecting on a couple of conversations I’ve been a part of in recent months around the validity or otherwise of the entire “cloud broker” concept. The rationale behind…

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  • Alcatel Lucent Enters the SDN Fray

    April 2, 2013

    Business
    Alcatel Lucent, Bell Labs, Business, CloudStack, OpenStack, Software Defined Networking, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, VMware
     

    You know something has moved from being just something the cognoscenti talk about to being known on a widespread basis when traditional companies start talking it up. In the case of Software Defined Networking (SDN) some would say that…

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  • CloudStack Graduates to an Apache Top Level Project

    March 22, 2013

    Business
    Apache foundation, Citrix, Cloud.com, CloudStack, Dell, IBM, OpenStack, Peder Ulander
     

    Almost a year ago Citrix scored a coup when it’s CloudStack product (which itself was formerly the cloud operating system known as cloud.com) was elevated to the cloud platform of the Apache foundation. It was all the more interesting…

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  • Apache releases CloudStack 4.0 Incubating Release

    November 6, 2012

    Business
    Apache foundation, Application programming interface, Caringo, CloudStack, Linus Torvalds, Open source, OpenStack, rackspace
     

    Open Source projects are great at encouraging chest thumping and misty eyes, but the really exciting thing about them is when they start to actually come to life – as in ship real products that can be used. Linux…

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  • HP Moves its Public Cloud Into Publicly Available Beta

    April 10, 2012

    Business
    amazon web services, Apache, Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, CloudStack, hp, OpenStack, Software release life cycle
     

    Since the announcement last week that Citrix would be moving it’s CloudStack product to Apache, some of the move vociferous support for OpenStack has come from HP, a company that is an active member of OpenStack and has a…

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  • Citrix Scores a Coup–CloudStack to Become Cloud Platform of the Apache Foundation

    April 3, 2012

    Business
    amazon, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, amazon web services, Apache foundation, AWS, Citrix, CloudStack, OpenStack, Peder Ulander, rackspace, VMware
     

    [Addendum – I knew about this announcement a week ago. Out of respect for those who briefed me on it under embargo I have decided to hold to the embargo despite others decisions not to do so. Personally I…

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