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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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Is Cloud Foundry the Next OpenStack?

August 14, 2013

Business

ActiveState, CenturyLink, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, IBM, Open source, OpenStack, Platform as a service, VMware

Disclosure – I am an adviser to ActiveState, creator of the Stackato Cloud Foundry-based PaaS. I’ve also consulted to a number of companies mentioned in this article. Full details on my disclosure page. Ever since Pivotal was created with IP from…

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Salesforce Broadens its Mobile Platform Offering – Joining the Dots

July 30, 2013

Business

Enterprise software, GitHub, Mobile application development, Mobile device, Mobile SDK 2.0, Open source, salesforce, Salesforce.com, Silicon Valley, Xamarin

A few months ago Salesforce announced a new push into mobile development, offering its existing developer base a bunch of tools to allow them to fulfill their mobile development needs with salesforce. In doing so they moved into the…

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IBM and Cloud Foundry – Because War Makes the Strangest Bedfellows

July 29, 2013

Business

Charles Dudley Warner, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, EMC Corporation, IBM, Open source, OpenStack, Platform as a service

Charles Dudley Warner is credited with making the well-known comment that war makes the strangest bedfellows and last week, in an act that would have impressed both him and The Art of War author Sun Tzu, IBM and Pivotal…

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CloudMunch – DevOps for OpenStack

July 23, 2013

Business

chef, cloud, cloud computing, DevOps, google, Open source, OpenStack, Platform as a service

It’s OSCON week so it’s no surprise that a number of interesting open source-related announcements are happening this week. Yesterday it was Canonical announcing that it was crowdfunding the development of a mobile phone (yes, many of us are…

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Sauce Labs Launches Enterprise Edition – Following the End-User to Central IT Attention Pivot

July 16, 2013

Business

GitHub, London, Open source, Programming, Sauce, Sauce Labs, Software Testing, Unit testing

Sauce Labs, is another in the long list of web and mobile application testing companies. It provides an automated test service that allows users to run functional and unit tests on applications – native, mobile web and desktop. Today…

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Engine Yard on Windows Azure? Yup, You Read that Right

June 28, 2013

Business

azure, Engine Yard, Heroku, Microsoft, netsuite, Open source, Platform as a service, Windows Azure

Lost in the outpouring of interest about last week’s announcements between Oracle and sometime enemies Microsoft, NetSuite and Salesforce was an interesting piece of news – that Engine Yard was going to begin supporting Windows Azure. This is kind…

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Metacloud Raises $10M for FullService OpenStack

June 26, 2013

Business

cloud computing, Metacloud, Open source, OpenStack, rackspace, Ticketmaster, VMware, yahoo

The cloud service provider announcements are coming thick and fast and today it’s the turn of OpenStack SP Metacloud to join the fray. Metacloud deploys and, more importantly, supports OpenStack based clouds. The product is delivered as a service…

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Rackspace Taps Third party Service Providers to Build Out International Presence

April 14, 2013

Business

amazon, amazon web services, AWS, Business, cloud computing, Customer, e-commerce, Lanham Napier, Open source, OpenStack, rackspace

Rackspace (disclosure – Rackspace supported the creation of the CloudU education program I formerly ran) is a little bit like the little engine that could. It’s continually fighting the perception (and, to be frank, the reality) that it’s the…

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OpenStack Grizzly Released Today

April 4, 2013

Business

Grizzly, IBM, NetApp, Open source, Open vSwitch, OpenStack, rackspace, SolidFire

In a couple of weeks I’ll be heading to Portland, Oregon briefly to attend past of the OpenStack summit (disclosures – the OpenStack foundation is supporting my T&E to attend the summit and Diversity Limited is writing a general…

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