Ravello develops cloud application hypervisor
The core founders of the KVM open source hypervisor announced public access to the beta of a new cloud application hypervisor and more than $25 million in funding
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Red Hat advances OpenStack, OpenShift cloud platforms for enterprise
Red Hat has released two software updates to advance enterprise on-premise cloud architectures: another preview version of its OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) distribution with new support for "Folsom" and an incarnation of its OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for on premise use
Rackspace set to ship OpenStack storage, networking products soon
At the OpenStack Summit, co-founder Rackspace announced that it has in preview testing storage and networking products based on two core components of OpenStack, even as it works to provide interoperability between its "Alamo" private cloud and its public cloud plaforms
Shuttleworth: Ubuntu 12.10 available with OpenStack "Folsom" today
Noting that Cisco and HP are running CloudStack-enabled Ubuntu Linux on their cloud platforms, Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said today at OpenStack Summit that Ubuntu 12.10 with the latest incarnation of OpenStack called 'Folsom" is now available and that the "'Folsom" upgrade path for Ubuntu 12.04 is also ready
Rackspace launches open PHP, Java SDKs for OpenStack
Rackspace is best known for co-founding OpenStack with NASA. As the open source cloud stack moves under the control of an independent foundation, and the OpenStack Summit gets underway, the public/private cloud provider has released two new PHP and Java SDKs targeting developers
OpenStack "Folsom" released, "Grizzly" up next
The much anticipated 'Folsom" version of OpenStack debuted today with new networking and storage features and Hyper-V support; the next version, Grizzly, is due in March of 2013
Piston's Airframe is free OpenStack pilot version for enterprises
Piston has debuted Airframe, a free version of its enterprise OpenStack cloud platform distribution that includes all of the core components of the platform including compute, storage and networking but not the high availability, zero downtime, professional support offered with the enterprise subscription.
Rackspace delivers OpenStack "Alamo" for private clouds
The co-creator of OpenStack has delivered a free OpenStack cloud distribution that allows customers to launch a private cloud in minutes. Will the hosting company's embrace of an open source cloud platform ensure its survival in the hyper-competitive cloud era?
Red Hat offers up OpenStack preview, supported version planned for '13
Red Hat today made available a preview version of its much anticipated OpenStack cloud distribution based on Enterprise Linux 6 and announced that a fully supported OpenStack distribution will ship in 2013.
Nimbula, MapR launch turnkey Hadoop solution for private cloud
Nimbula, the creators of the Amazon EC2 cloud, has partnered with big data experts at MapReduce Technologies to develop a turnkey solution that allows enterprise customers to get a Hadoop cluster running on a private cloud in minutes. The solution unites Nimbula Director with MapR's Hadoop distribution and includes templates, recipes and verification tests for running Hadoop on Nimbula Director, the companies announced.