10 open source projects that power the cloud

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	10 open source projects that power the cloud With recent negative reports from Gartner and Zenoss, it seems "dump on open source cloud" season is open. For those quick to point the finger at some of these technologies that may not have the market share some expect, it would be good to remember that without open source, it would be difficult to have a cloud at all. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Steelhead Cloud Accelerator Solution Brief Learn how enterprises must tackle these challenges for SaaS applications to remain a viable option. Read now. In this Issue IBM makes security push with cloud services, products aimed at mobile and Big Data Amazon EC2 founders' latest company joins OpenStack Google's giant datacenters – an inside look Cisco adds to cloud collaboration services its hosting partners can offer Who is tweeting from the NSA's parking lot? VMware extends support for ESX hypervisor in OpenStack Cisco, Citrix forge ADC alliance Canonical aims to make cloud orchestration a breeze with Juju Microsoft to acquire cloud-integrated storage provider StorSimple NetApp adds clustering technology to OpenStack Seagate unveils three enterprise-class hard drives WEBCAST: VCE VCE FastPath In Action The FastPath Platform combines best-of-breed compute, network, storage and virtualization technologies and offers a resilient and validated architecture that supports thousands of users on a single platform. Learn More. IBM makes security push with cloud services, products aimed at mobile and Big Data IBM today widened its security offerings with products and cloud-based services focused broadly on both mobile devices and Big Data, both areas where IBM foresees growth as enterprises sort out their strategies toward both. Read More Amazon EC2 founders' latest company joins OpenStack A company founded by two pioneers of Amazon Web Service's popular Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) is joining OpenStack because it wants to integrate open source code into its cloud management platform product. Read More Google's giant datacenters – an inside look Google releases new information on its enormous computing infrastructure. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: LogMeIn LogMeIn Rescue: Remote Support for PCs and mobile devices. Rescue lets you remotely connect, troubleshoot and repair PCs and todays' most popular smartphones. With Rescue, IT can instantly connect, diagnose and solve. This enables IT to do more, and spend time on the tough IT cases. Do more and improve customer satisfaction and outcomes. Find out what IT knows. Do More. Try Rescue today Cisco adds to cloud collaboration services its hosting partners can offer Cisco on Tuesday announced that it is increasing the number of collaboration software products that its hosting partners can offer via the cloud, hoping to make the bundles more attractive to the partners and their customers. Read More Who is tweeting from the NSA's parking lot? From Google Maps, the U.S. National Security Agency's parking lot has a larger footprint than the building itself. And for the high secrecy surrounding what goes on inside, there is plenty of information flowing just outside. Read More VMware extends support for ESX hypervisor in OpenStack Continuing its commitment to the OpenStack project and its newfound vision to support multiple types of cloud platforms, VMware announced support for its ESX hypervisor in OpenStack. Read More WEBCAST: Aternity Managing IT through the Lens of the End User Hosted by BMC Software and Aternity, this live webinar - Tuesday, October 30th 2012 ~ 11 AM PT or 2 PM ET - will reveal the value of complementing your Application Performance Monitoring (APM) strategy with End User Activity Monitoring (EUAM) in order to enable better user-focused IT services that drive optimal business practices. Register now. Cisco, Citrix forge ADC alliance Cisco will reference sell Citrix's NetScaler application delivery controller as part of an expanded relationship between the two companies to address cloud and mobile opportunities. Read More Canonical aims to make cloud orchestration a breeze with Juju While there are a growing number of OpenStack code distributions and more to come, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth says inefficiencies remain around being able to easily deploy and manage OpenStack clouds. Read More Microsoft to acquire cloud-integrated storage provider StorSimple Microsoft has reached a deal to acquire cloud-integrated storage company, StorSimple. Read More NetApp adds clustering technology to OpenStack NetApp has contributed Data ONTAP 8 Clustering drivers to OpenStack, giving service providers and enterprises better resources when building private and public clouds based on the platform, it said on Monday. Read More Seagate unveils three enterprise-class hard drives Seagate today announced three new enterprise-class hard disk drives aimed at traditional data centers and emerging private and public cloud infrastructures. Read More
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