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The Open vSwitch - Key Ingredient of Enterprise Ready Clouds

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:32:00 0500

I'm often asked what Citrix and the open source community are trying to achieve with the Open vSwitch Project. The Open vSwitch is an open source virtual switch for Xen (and therefore XenServer, and in future perhaps Amazon EC2 and RackSpace), and KVM based virtual infrastructure that replaces the Linux bridge code with a powerful, programmable switch forwarding capability as well as programmable per-virtual interface ACLs. The Open vSwitch supports an emerging industry standard protocol for pr...

Cloud Market Leaders Turn to 3PAR and VMware for Cloud-Scale Virtualization

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:09:00 0500

3PAR announced that cloud computing market leaders in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) segments have combined the 3PAR InServ Storage Server with VMware vSphere to build agile and efficient cloud infrastructures for their shared, virtualized "utility" service offerings....

Zenoss Announces Key Customer Wins for Management of Cisco UCS-Based Clouds

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:02:00 0500

Zenoss announced that in its first quarter of availability, it has achieved several significant customer wins for its management offering for the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). ...

HP Launches CloudStart to Fast Track Private Clouds

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:01:00 0500

HP announced HP CloudStart, the industry's first all-in-one solution for deploying an open and flexible private cloud environment within 30 days....

OpenCloud - A Platform for Innovation

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:47:00 0500

Open means a lot to me. I was one of the lucky kids that caught the cusp of the open source explosion in the early 90s. Ah the memories of spending nights porting source code from SunOS to Linux. And really, you cant appreciate the miracle of modern installers until you've toasted a monitor trying to manually configure X-Windows on Linux 0.93. Yeah, I knew how to party....

3PAR Accepts Matching Acquisition Offer by Dell

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:45:00 0500

3PAR announced it has accepted a matching offer to be acquired by Dell for a price of $27 per share, or approximately $1.8 billion, net of 3PAR's cash. Accordingly, 3PAR and Dell have signed a second amendment to their previously announced merger agreement reflecting the new offer price, and maintaining the termination fee unchanged at $72 million, which is payable in the event that 3PAR receives and accepts another unsolicited acquisition proposal that its board determines to be superior to De...

Perform The Hybrid Cloud Dance Easily With newScale, rPath and Eucalyptus

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:21:00 0500

Cloud Computing is both inspiring and confusing to many people. When you realize the efficiency and cost savings offered by the cloud, you get inspired but when you listen to the marketing folks, you get confused. The reason is pretty straightforward. The marketing folks on the public cloud side wants you to believe that it is a miracle pill set out to cure all the problems of IT and if you listen to the marketing folks on the private cloud side, they will want you to shudder at the very though...

Cloud APIs Offered by Red Hat as Industry Standard

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:14:00 0500

As the industry call for cloud interoperability grows more fervent, open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has submitted its cloud platform, Deltacloud, to the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) as a potential standard for cloud interoperability, the company said Wednesday....

Microsoft Releases SQL Azure Update

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:12:00 0500

Microsoft has released an update to SQL Azure with new support for database copying. With SQL Azure Service Update 4, users get the ability to take a snapshot of their database....

Quest Delivers Advanced Private Cloud Automation Platform

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:07:00 0500

Quest Software announced the release of Quest Cloud Automation Platform 7.5, its next generation of enterprise-class cloud automation and management technology. Originally developed by recently acquired Surgient, Quest Cloud Automation Platform enables IT to maximize the utilization of cloud infrastructure, fully automate the delivery of complex IT services, and automatically reclaim unused infrastructure, driving down IT costs and delivering unmatched productivity gains across the enterprise....