SiliconANGLE is there at the Strata Conference and conducting interviews with all the biggest names attending, but the cloud has been active from other angels as well. The open cloud takes a very big chunk of our list, with Rackspace’s announcement of their latest OpenStack code release, Bexar, kicking things off. Bexar brings IPv6, Hyper-V, iSCSI with XenAPI, XenServer snapshot and raw disk image support to OpenStack architectures, and also features a new sub-project dubbed Glance.

Second in line is EnterpriseDB, who released the new SQL/Protect cloud security suite for PostgreSQ – an open source SQL database. The suite among others focuses on shielding databases more effectively against SQL injections, by analyzing database for normal and abnormal behavior.

EnterpriseDB is pushing open cloud security, and EMC is looking to make Greenplum the open cloud standard. The company recently released a free open source community edition of the Greenplum data warehousing software, as well as other tools and algorithm libraries, for non-commercial use. This is part of a strategy to expand the Greenplum user base and create a “vibrant app ecosystem” in order to create a standard-status open source cloud platform. EMC also recently announced its Governance, Risk and Compliance (eGRC) strategy which offers enterprises an open platform as well as service offerings, technology solutions and more in business solutions, information governance, business continuity and more.

Last but not least, Oracle demonstrated on how the cloud is beneficial for the progress of just about every sector. CERN chose Oracle’s Weblogic Server and Oracle WebLogic Suite Virtualization Option to province and deeply its virtual machines and assists its scientists.