Jon Mittelhauser, a former member of the team that created original web browser MOSAIC and a founding engineer at Netscape Communications Corporation, is bringing his experience  to OpenStack-based private cloud appliance vendor Nebula, the company started by former NASA IT executives and OpenStack project founders, as its new VP of Engineering. Mittelhauser’s resume is one of ...

In a guest editorial for Forbes Mike Pearl, the cloud computing leader for international professional services giant PricewaterhouseCooper, succinctly and clearly explained just why the cloud is so awesome. Okay, maybe he didn’t use the word “awesome.” That editorial, more properly called “Looking At Cloud Strategy Through The Lens Of Value,” starts with a high-level view of ...

Piston Cloud Computing, which bills itself as the enterprise OpenStack company, has announced an open source, cooperative project with VMware to officially bring the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service to OpenStack-based clouds. This was bound to happen sooner or later: Despite its origins as a VMware project, Cloud Foundry is an open source PaaS that makes the ...

In “Big Data’s Big Problem: Little Talent,” an article published yesterday, the Wall Street Journal’s Ben Rooney used the success of the Splunk IPO to discuss how quickly the big data market has exploded – and how the talent pool hasn’t caught up yet. Most of what Rooney talks about should be familiar to our ...

Earlier this week, data warehousing solution developer Teradata released ADW (Active Data Warehouses) Private Cloud, a solution designed to help customers take advantage of the efficiency and analytical benefits that consolidation can bring. See, Teradata says, even those enterprises who’ve made the jump into virtualization are vastly underutilizing their computing resources, sometimes only consuming 25% of ...

A new report, sponsored by Google-friendly ISV peer group Cloud Alliance for Google Apps, has found that when it comes to reasons for moving to the search giant’s cloud, the low $50/user/year is only part of it. Instead, the 2,000 Google Apps administrators polled strongly indicated that they were really after collaboration. David Politis, veteran of ...

The Linux Foundation today announced the formation of the first-ever CloudOpen conference, a technical event designed to bridge the disparate communities that have gathered around open source cloud and big data projects. To give you an idea of what they have in mind, CloudOpen is sponsored by Canonical, Citrix, Dell, Eucalyptus, HP, IBM, Intel, OpenStack and ...

VMware is getting into the big data game with the purchase of Cetas Software, a Palo Alto, California-based startup that provides a Hadoop-based analytics and business intelligence platform that can be deployed on Amazon Web Services on VMware vSphere infrastructure. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Here’s how VMware is turning cloud-based analytics into ...

Maybe you’re waiting for OpenStack to mature. Maybe you’re testing OpenStack internally but want to see what else is out there. Or maybe you’re just curious. Regardless, now that we’ve taken a look at what OpenStack is up against when it comes to Amazon Web Services and VMware, here’s a look at how a few ...

The OpenStack open source cloud platform is maturing rapidly, as evidenced by the just-concluded OpenStack Conference here in San Francisco. But OpenStack has a few bridges to cross and hurdles to jump before it becomes a real market force. As I wrote on Thursday in my first thoughts from the OpenStack conference, the OpenStack platform itself isn’t ...