This week has brought with it quite a bit of updates from every corner of the cloud, including a few new products. For example, Couchbase launched its first product a couple days ago. Couchbase is a NoSQL company formed after the merger of CouchOne and Membase, who launched Couchbase Server earlier this week. The Couchbase Server is based on Apache CouchDB, and the cloud management offering comes in two free editions – community and enterprise. The software comes with peer-based replication capabilities even while disconnected from a network, a built-in JS-based geospatial indexing component and more. The company also announced the formation of its Board of Advisors the same day, which includes executives from Google, Facebook, Zynga and other notable industry leaders.

In addition to cloud management, analytics is also one of the most prominent trends in this space. Zenoss, a physical, virtual and cloud management software vendor is the most recent example supporting this claim, or to be more accurate its new offering is. Zenoss Datacenter Insight is a turnkey solution delivering real-time cloud analytics focused particularly on data warehouses.

Later in the week, cloud database company Xeround announced it has extended its MySQL offerings with a new add-on supporting the Heroku PaaS – a popular service among Ruby developers.

Moving to the open-source front, we’ve got some more OpenStack news. Open source storage virtualization software vendor Gluster recently joined the OpenStack community. The company will unveil the first update to its code contribution at the April 26th OpenStack Developer Conference. Constant Contact also delved deeper into open source waters, selecting chose Puppet Labs for its horizontal expansion – whose technology it already uses for optimizing its own internally-operated infrastructure – to smooth its transition to cloud services.