Weekly Cloud Review: Open Data and Services
This week Rackspace announced that it has teamed up with the European Organization for Nuclear Research to develop a federation service for its cloud portfolio, and Google added DevOps capabilities to its flagship platform-as-a-service suite. OpenGov also grabbed a few headlines after it announced that it has received new funding from investors, and a judge ruled that Microsoft’s Skydrive violates the trademark of a major European pay-TV provider.
On Monday, I reported that Rackspace and CERN entered a partnership to connect the former’s platform-as-a-service offerings with OpenStack and the Rackspace Private Cloud software. The federation service will bolster Rackspace portfolio and help CERN simplify its OpenStack implementations.
On the same day, Google announced that it made Boundary’s flagship DevOps solution available for Google Compute Engine (GCE) users. The startup’s network monitoring-as-a-service tracks application health across both public and private cloud environments, and features integration with Opscode and Puppet Labs’ automation platform. As a bonus, the GCE edition of the platform includes 1GB of free monitoring per day.
On Thursday, OpenGov closed a $4 financing million round led by Thrive Capital with participation from Formation 8. The startup, which has raised a total of $7 million to date, sells cloud software that helps municipal governments to be more open about spending. Its service collects financial records and turns them into easy to read charts and reports.
Finally, Microsoft lost a trademark dispute with British Sky Broadcasting Group, one of the largest pay-TV broadcasters in Europe. A London judge ruled that the company’s Skydrive cloud locker is in violation of the latter’s “Sky” trademark because the service debuted in the UK five years ago, long before consumers associated the word “sky” with cloud storage. Microsoft said that it will appeal the decision.
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