Friday, July 29, 2011

NASA's Former CTO Brings Cloud Appliance To Enterprise

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NASA's Former CTO Brings Cloud Appliance To Enterprise
InformationWeek
By Charles Babcock InformationWeek Chris Kemp, the man behind NASA's Nebula cloudcomputing center, has launched a startup, also called Nebula, that will offer an appliance for enterprise cloud computing. The appliance will be based on OpenStack, ...
Aliyun OS leans on the cloud for core services and runs Android apps
SlashGear
The OS leans heavily on cloud services that Alibaba offers and comes from the AliCloud branch of the company. The core functions of the smartphone, called the K-Touch Cloud Smartphone W700, will use the cloud. Those functions include email, ...
Novell to Close Vibe Cloud Collaboration Suite
PCWorld (blog)
By Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Novell has decided to shut down its Web-hosted Vibe Cloudenterprise social collaboration suite, which bombed with customers although the market is hot for competing products. Vibe Cloud will be taken offline at the end ...
Cloud News: Citrix, VCE, SIIA, TechAmerica
Data Center Knowledge
Citrix adds Cisco, HP and Symantec Executives to Further Personal Cloud. Citrix Systems (CTXS) announced the addition of three new executive hires to drive leadership in enabling the personal cloud. Erin Hintz has joined as vice president, ...
CA Assures Smooth Cloud Transition with New Product Line-up
ITProPortal
CA Technologies has updated its cloud computing product line in a bid to allow clients to manage complex cloud computing environments. The company claims that organisations have to deal with the rising complexities that come with migrating to the cloud ...
Ex-NASA CTO builds cloud dream team, launches Nebula
Reuters
By Derrick Harris at GigaOm The cloud computing world has been anxious to hear former NASA CTO Chris Kemp's plans since he left his post in the spring to pursue a startup venture, and on Wednesday morning, he introduced his new company, Nebula. ...
Ubuntu dressed in cheap elastic support, sent out in public
Register
Even though this new support structure offered tiered support levels in terms of coverage time and features, and even had add-ons to give companies a break if they were deploying Ubuntu EnterpriseCloud to build an internal clone of Amazon's EC2 cloud...
Survey: Feds Making Progress on 'Cloud First'
Data Center Knowledge
Two-thirds of federal agencies have identified applications to move to the cloud, and half of those have started the migration process to cloud computing, according to a survey of 113 FOSE attendees conducted by IT operations and cloud management ...
Autonomy's Figures Up 16% Pushed by Cloud Computing, Iron Mountain, Aurasma
CMSWire
And while the figures in general are good, there were a couple of things that the market will have been looking for, notably how its Iron Mountain (news, site) digital acquisition has behaved, how IDOL is getting on and how its cloud business is ...
Virtualization moving to cloud computing pricing models: Is IT ready?
SearchServerVirtualization.com
The goal of cloud computing pricing models is to more closely align costs with usage, and VMware is embracing this mantra as more virtual infrastructures evolve into private and hybrid clouds. Some IT shops, however, may not be ready for these new ...
Why Citrix stock was punished, despite strong earnings
Bizjournals.com (blog)
“The transition from the PC Era to the Cloud Era is driving a rapid transformation in computing that strongly favors agile players like Citrix,” CEO and President Mark Templeton said in the earnings release. Citrix Systems ' push into cloud computing ...
GSA migrates email service into Google's cloud
FierceTelecom
Martha Johnson, GSA Administrator, said in a blog that by migrating into the cloud her agency will cut email operation costs by 50 percent and that it could save a total of $15.2 million in IT costs between now and 2016. "Cloud IT systems help ...
Symform offers 100GB cloud storage for free, kind of
CNET (blog)
by Dong Ngo Symform, a once business-oriented cloud storage provider, announced today that it is giving general consumers 100GB of online storage for free. Considering the fact that most other online storage services offer just 2GB or 3GB for free, ...
Cloud and the next American Century
BusinessCloud9
With the UK government yet to produce its own Cloud Computing national strategy, the Americans have been setting yet another example to follow with the publication of new guidelines on the potential of Cloud and how to procure services. ...
Do we need an Open Cloud, will we get one, and from whom?
TelecomTV
One of the announcements is the creation of the Open Cloud Initiative, which is another attempt at creating an 'Open Cloud' framework. Guy Daniels reports. The Open Cloud Initiative (OCI) describes itself as a non-profit organization “established to ...
PaperThin Launches Cloud-Based Solution to Make Marketers More Effective
Business Wire (press release)
Designed to enable fast time-to-Web, CommonSpot Cloud allows marketers to quickly create and deploy compelling Web experiences independent of IT for high impact marketing results. “There is tremendous pressure on marketers now more than ever to deliver ...
Symantec Exceeds a Quarter-Billion User and Device Certificates and Enhances ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Managing certificates through Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is critically important, especially on the skyrocketing number of mobile devices as well as cloud-based applications requiring authentication. The emergence of nontraditional PKI ...
ElasticStack delivers cloud with SAN-resilient storage on commodity hardware
ComputerWeekly.com
Cloud platform provider ElasticStack has refined its software to deliver a cloud platform with resilient storage using the same set of low-cost commodity hardware. One of only a handful of cloud platform providers that enable businesses to build ...
Microsoft: Cloud need only be open surface, not open source
ZDNet (blog)
By Paula Rooney | July 27, 2011, 12:23pm PDT At Oscon 2011, Gianugo Rabellino, Senior Director for Open Source Communities at Microsoft, said as long as the APIs, protocols and standards for thecloud are open, that is, open surface, customers don't ...
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