CloudCommons 2011

Download our iPhone app New: Download the This Week in Cloud iPhone app. Now it’s even easier to get your weekly cloud news and perspectives. Cloud News IBM is purchasing Green Hat, which provides technology for testing applications without the need to use underlying hardware. Green Hat provides cloud-based tools for analyzing the performance of major vendors’ software in a controlled environment so customers can test how it interacts with their existing stack, according to this ZDNet UK article. Private cloud provider Nimbula launched a migration service to help customers move from public clouds to Nimbula-powered private clouds. Nimbula claims that companies can run certain workloads more efficiently and cost-effectively in a private cloud environment. Read more in this Information Week article. In a light news week due to the holidays, several industry pundits too... (more)

This Week in Cloud, February 9, 2012: OpenStack drops Hyper-V, Red Hat’s legacy app remedy, Fujitsu + ServiceMesh partner, 28% of IT orgs assess cloud impact. And more…

Download our iPhone app New: Download the This Week in Cloud iPhone app. Now it’s even easier to get your weekly cloud news and perspectives. Cloud News OpenStack will be removing support for Hyper-V from Essex, the next version of OpenStack, despite Microsoft's stated commitment to the code, according to this ComputerWorld article. The code would have allowed service providers to build an OpenStack cloud using Hyper-V, but according to one developer, it was "broken and unmaintained." Red Hat announced the Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services which aims to sim... (more)

This Week in Cloud, February 2, 2012: BMC acquires Numara, Salesforce.com launches desk.com, Gartner PaaS report, Cloud fueling global economic growth, Quantum cloud? Forrester business and technology outlook for 2020. And more…

Download our iPhone app New: Download the This Week in Cloud iPhone app. Now it’s even easier to get your weekly cloud news and perspectives. Cloud News BMC is acquiring Numara Software, a provider of integrated IT management solutions to midmarket companies. In this Computerworld UK blog, Forrester’s Dave Johnson shares his analysis. Salesforce.com has launched Desk.com, a cloud-based customer help-desk dashboard that integrates Facebook and Twitter feeds alongside more traditional corporate channels such as email. Subscriptions start at $49 per seat per month. Read this eWeek ar... (more)

This Week in Cloud

Download our iPhone app New: Download the This Week in Cloud iPhone app. Now it’s even easier to get your weekly cloud news and perspectives. Cloud News The US Congress has instructed the Defense Department to adopt a strategy that involves use of cloud computing services. In an effort to reduce expenditures, the bill requires the Pentagon to migrate data to the cloud. These moves are likely to generate US contracts for suppliers like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. To find out how the White House plans to embrace the cloud, and deal with the associated security concerns that aris... (more)

This Week in Cloud, January 19, 2011: Fujitsu big data cloud service, Microsoft to reposition System Center for cloud computing, New cloud portability standard from OASIS, Symantec acquires LiveOffice. And more…

Download our iPhone app New: Download the This Week in Cloud iPhone app. Now it’s even easier to get your weekly cloud news and perspectives. Cloud News Fujitsu is launching a big data cloud service that will enable the capture and analysis of customer data to help drive decision-making. The service includes using Fujitsu’s software and systems to gather telemetry and data from sensors, application transactions, clickstreams, logs, multimedia files and other data formats, processing the data and reintegrating the data with existing systems. Read more in this The Register article... (more)