First let me make it clear that Open Cloud Initiative (OCI) is not dead and it is going to stay for a long time advocating openness. Also, I will fight all I can to keep it going. Having said that I am writing this post to re-emphasize something which I have been saying all along. [...]
Future Of GlusterFS – From Open Core to Open Source
January 30, 2012 By
In October of 2011, Red Hat (previous CloudAve coverage) announced the acquisition of Gluster, the company behind GlusterFS (previous CloudAve coverage) open source distributed storage solution. Even though Red Hat is a company based on open source philosophy, there were questions about what is in store for GlusterFS under Red Hat. Last week Red Hat [...]
Quick Take: AT&T Joins OpenStack
January 9, 2012 By
OpenStack (previous CloudAve coverage) got a big boost today with the announcement that AT&T is joining the OpenStack community. According to a blog post by AT&T, they are becoming the first US Telco to join OpenStack community. We also announced today that AT&T has become the first U.S. telecom services provider to join the OpenStack [...]
PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: Tier3 Adds .NET Support To CloudFoundry By Forking It
December 13, 2011 By
Today Tier3, Bellevue based enterprise cloud hosting provider, announced that they are adding .NET support to CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage) by forking it. With this, they are essentially pushing VMware’s PaaS solution into Windows shops who mate be interested in using an open source alternative. Remember it is not a mono implementation but .NET based one of [...]
HP Opensources WebOS: My Quick Thoughts
December 9, 2011 By
HP (previous CloudAve coverage) today announced that they are opensourcing their WebOS mobile operating system. After their initial plan to shed WebOS completely, there was a rethink once Meg Whitman took over as CEO. They were dillydallying for many weeks before making this smart move. HP today announced it will contribute the webOS software to [...]
The Importance Of Open Source In Cloud Computing
November 10, 2011 By
At Cloud Computing Bootcamp on the sidelines of Cloud Expo, I gave a talk on the favorite topic of mine. I was putting forward my arguments about why Open Source is critical in cloud computing. I had a simple take away from my talk: World cannot afford a monopoly offering around cloud services, a handful [...]
NGINX Starts Commercial Operations
October 12, 2011 By
NGINX, the open source alternative to Apache web server, today announced their plans to start a commercial company around their software. Yesterday, they announced a $3 Million Series A funding round and how they are planning to monetize their open source software. As an analyst focussing on both open source and cloud computing, this is [...]
OpenStack Foundation Launched
October 5, 2011 By
The OpenStack Project (previous CloudAve coverage), so far under the “control” of Rackspace, announced their intention to launch a foundation which will control the governance and trademarks of the project. This is a big news and warrants a short analysis because I have talked about this issue when it erupted after Rick Clark’s departure and [...]
Deploying OpenStack Is Difficult? It’s A Myth!!
September 23, 2011 By
Ever since Open Source came into existence, one of the biggest myths about them is “it is not user friendly”. Everything from it is not easy to use to it is difficult to even deploy were thrown against open source. Most of the times, it was intentional FUD unleashed by proprietary vendors whose business is [...]
10gen Announces $20 M Funding And MongoDB 2.0 Is Out
September 13, 2011 By
10gen (previous CloudAve coverage), the company behind open source MongoDB database (previous CloudAve coverage), today announced a new round of funding worth $20 Million backed by Sequoia Capital with the support of existing investors, Flybridge Capital and Union Square Ventures. 10gen has raised $31 Million since their inception in 2007. This will help 10gen to expand [...]
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