Citrix (previous CloudAve coverage) today announced that they are releasing CloudStack (previous CloudAve coverage) under Apache 2 License and it will now be part of the Apache Foundation. The project is supported by 30 ecosystem partners including NTT, Juniper Networks, Tata Communications, etc.. They also announced that they are embracing AWS API for interoperability. Already, [...]
Cloudsoft Makes DevOps Approach To PaaS Seamless
Cloudsoft Corporation, UK based consulting company turned multi cloud application management provider, today announced that they are open sourcing Brooklyn multi-cloud application management platform under Apache license. In short, Brooklyn is an autonomic policy driven control plane for distributed applications. Seeing it from another angle, it can also be seen as a DIY PaaS platform. [...]
Introducing Rishidot Research
I have been growing with CloudAve talking about various cloud related topics for the past 3 years or so. There will come a point in time for everyone when they will feel the urge to take the next big step. I think I am at this stage now and here is the announcement about my [...]
With Box OneCloud, Organizations Can Embrace Both BYOD And BYOA
Box (previous CloudAve coverage), the enterprise software company formerly known as Box.net, yesterday announced Box OneCloud, their enterprise grade cloud platform to unify business information. With this announcement, they solved a major pain point experienced by the business users. They have also added some social features which will hep them fend off the competition from [...]
dotCloud Ramps Up Their Offering
dotCloud, San Francisco based platform services company letting you build your own platform stack across three data centers, yesterday announced that they are ramping up their platform stack support with support for web sockets, MongoDB 2.0 and vertical scaling. After being relatively quiet for sometime (at least, I didn’t hear much about them), they are [...]
Morphlabs Embraces SSDs
Morphlabs (previous CloudAve coverage), the company offering converged infrastructure solutions to enterprises, today announced that they are using Dell Technology to offer fully Solid State Drive technology based cloud solution. Morphlabs’ mCloud Data Center Unit (DCU) will be powered by the Dell PowerEdge C portfolio, the hyperscale server line developed by the Dell Data Center Solutions [...]
AWS, Eucalyptus And My Own Hallucinations On This
Yesterday blogs and Twitter were full of opinions about the AWS-Eucalyptus partnership. I even made joke on this discussion when fellow CloudAve blogger Christian Reilly asked for a quick take. @reillyusa First step to acquisition. Send me my $10 — Krish (@krishnan) March 22, 2012 The punditry was at the peak yesterday about the topic [...]
Is India Becoming The Next Cloud Destination?
APAC was a hot destination for cloud vendors last year and the trend is continuing this year too. However, it appears India could turn out to be the next stop in their journey. Last year, Tata Communications used the now Citrix CloudStack to launch their public cloud offering in India. Theirs was the first public [...]
What Can Microsoft Do To Attract Youtube Generation Developers?
Recently, I had a chance to talk to some Microsoft folks on how they can reach out to Youtube generation of developers. It is not a problem for Microsoft alone but it is the case with many companies with legacy tag on them, like IBM, but it stands out in the Microsoft case because of [...]
Saba Software Joins Social Business Meme
Saba Software, Redwood California based company with various offerings in the learning and talent management segment, takes a shot at the Social Business space with the announcement of Saba People Cloud. Thanks to large investments by companies like IBM and Salesforce and the associated amplification of the buzzword Social Business, the segment is turning competitive [...]