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Dell Upgrades OpenStack Cloud Solution; Canonical, Mirantis, enStratus Partner Up

Dell, one of the very first backers of the OpenStack project (and soon to be one of the founding members of the OpenStack Foundation), has refreshed its creatively-named Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution with an update that brings the reference architecture and services up to Folsom, the latest release of the open source cloud platform. And ...

Cloudability Raises $8.7M To Put a Price Tag on Cloud Agility

Cloudability, which helps customers track public cloud costs across service providers, has announced the close of an $8.7 million round of Series A funding, led by the Foundry Group. Other participants in this round include 500 Startups, Trinity Ventures and advertising firm Wieden + Kennedy. Mat Ellis, CEO and co-founder of Cloudability, refers to his company’s offering as the Google ...

ActiveState Stackato 2.0 PaaS Adds .NET Application Support as Cloud Market Shifts

Private, Cloud Foundry-based PaaS ActiveState Stackato has hit version 2.0, bringing virtual cluster management and better containerization. But the really notable thing in this new release is that it adds support for .NET applications – demonstrating that the market is definitely starting to respond to Microsoft’s recent cloud moves. The .NET support is handled via ...

Microsoft Brings Windows Azure Services to Hosting Providers, Puts VMware in Crosshairs

At today’s Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft announced that the hosted service provider community is getting access to deliver Microsoft Windows Azure-compatible cloud services from within their own data center as Redmond moves to expand its hybrid cloud strategy. But most importantly – this move takes away a key value differentiator from the VMware vCloud ecosystem. ...

Appsecute Launches PaaS Management for the Multi-Cloud Future

Starting today, Appsecute is offering a public beta of its namesake offering: A management portal that enables administrators and developers to monitor and maintain applications and services across Cloud Foundry-based public platform-as-a-service (PaaS) clouds with a single sign-on and management portal. This approach is especially important as the application-centric PaaS layer becomes increasingly vital to ...

Google Open Sources Collaborative Cloud IDE Technology

A bit of bad news: After seven years, Google is shuttering its Atlanta engineering offices, and with it goes the projects that the developers in residence were working on. But out of the ashes of Google Atlanta comes the release of Collide, a collaborative browser-based IDE, as a reference implementation to the open source community. ...

Netflix Reinforces Dedication to Amazon Web Services After Outage

Somewhere along the line, Netflix became the bellwether for cloud development, as its immensely successful video streaming service has put it in the spotlight, both for its usage of scalable public cloud infrastructure and its custom with Amazon Web Services for the same. And now, in the wake of last weekend’s great Amazon Web Services ...

Sqlmap: Open Source SQL Injection and Penetration Testing Tool Builds Buzz

Yesterday saw the launch of Sqlmap, an open source vulnerability testing tool that can automatically detect and exploit SQL injection flaws for the takeover of database servers. It’s a potentially valuable tool as developers, operations and DevOps move to leverage automation and protect web applications from the hive of scum and villainy that is the ...

Google Enterprise Chief to CIOs: Embrace Consumerization

Right before the entire country knocked off for fireworks and barbecues this week, Google Enterprise VP Amit Singh wrote up some of his observations from meeting with CIOs across the country. And the number one takeaway from these conversations: The consumerization of IT is accelerating, and it might just be a good thing for the ...

Cloud Failure Is Inevitable: Learn From the Crash and Move On

Every time there’s a major cloud outage, we have to have the same conversation around the reliability and the viability of the public cloud as an enterprise IT platform. And now that Amazon Web Services has released a detailed post-mortem on its outage over the weekend (Short version: An electrical storm in North Virginia caused ...