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How Amazon Web Services Helps NASA’s Curiosity Rover Share Mars With The World

NASA is a big fan of the cloud – in fact, the OpenStack open source cloud computing platform got its start there. So when NASA needed image processing infrastructure for the incredible pictures coming from Mars to Earth by way of the just-landed Curiosity rover and its mission to search for life on Mars, it’s ...

OpenStack Drama Fizzles Out as Elections Continue, But Questions Remain

Earlier this week, OpenStack community leader Jonathan Bryce posted to the community that the recent controversy over the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors resolved with neither side choosing to pursue any further action. But questions over corporate involvement in the OpenStack project still linger. A quick primer: In late July, controversy hit the OpenStack Foundation, ...

eBay Using OpenStack Open Source Cloud and Nicira For Dev/Test

The OpenStack open source cloud platform has a major e-commerce backer in its corner, now that eBay’s gone public with details of its implementation, as InfoWorld reports. Of special note: Even though eBay is using OpenStack specifically as an exit strategy from the VMware ecosystem, the auction site is using Nicira – recently acquired by ...

Opscode Introduces Chef Professional Services For Cloud Infrastructure Automation

Opscode, developer of the highly popular IT infrastructure automation tool Chef, is finding that as customers are managing larger, more heterogenous environments at greater and greater scales, they’re turning to DevOps methodologies and tools to keep things under control – in fact, Opscode says its customer base has grown 50 percent in the last six ...

Wozniak: “I really worry about everything going to the cloud”

Don’t count Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak among the fans of the shift to cloud computing, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). Wozniak made a special appearance after a Washington performance of Mike Daisey’s “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” a controversial monologue on the conditions of Apple’s factories and labor practices in China, to answer audience questions. And while ...

Box Is Overvalued, But Maybe Not By Much

Call it the Instagram Effect: Silicon Valley startups are seeing their valuations shoot up in the wake of the social photo-sharing site’s $1 billion acquisition by Facebook. So when cloud storage company Box (neé Box.net) raised $125 million this week, officially pushing it above the billion-dollar mark. But with cloud storage increasingly commoditized in the ...

Microsoft Allegedly Tells Developers To Stop Calling It “Metro”

For the last year and change, Metro has been the magic word at Microsoft, as it gears up to drastically refine the desktop experience with Windows 8. But reports are coming in that developers are allegedly getting word that the term “Metro” – which has all but defined Microsoft’s unified user interface efforts –  has ...

HP Services Launches Social Media Strategy Roadmaps for Contact Centers

HP Enterprise Services is continuing its crusade to bring the contact center into the social enterprise with the launch of a new offering that aims to revamp a enterprise contact centers with a focus on helping agents communicate with customers in the bold new world of social media. The new HP Transformation Services – Customer ...

Salesforce.com: When It Comes To The Enterprise Cloud, Context Is King

In a blog post yesterday, Quinton Wall, Director of Technical Platform Marketing and general developer evangelist for Salesforce.com, makes the case that the App Store economy is here to stay – and that the enterprise cloud developers who are going to succeed are those who leverage the all-important idea of context to make apps more useful and more ...

OpenStack Foundation Investigating Election ‘Violation’ Controversy

Guidance and stewardship of OpenStack, the open source cloud platform project, is shifting from Rackspace Hosting, as the community works to get the guiding OpenStack Foundation off the ground. But over the weekend, a controversy emerged when Shanley Kane (Better known as @shanley on Twitter), an individual member of the OpenStack Foundation, withdrew her candidacy for ...