Nate D'Amico


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VMworld 2010: VMware Makes Good on Interop, But What’s Next?

After its announcement and unveiling of vCloud last year, VMware has followed things up over the past year with a lot of hard work to move their Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering along and make good on their promise and vision of a world filled with hybrid enterprise clouds. VMware told the story all along about the “interoperability” ...

MindTouch 2010 Hits a Nerve With Community Curators & the Documentation Crowd

In startup land, early customer adoption is king.  You want to release early, release often, and work towards that sweet spot where you have a captive audience that will jump all over your product that is filling a void.  Taking a commercial open source approach to developing your business can give companies more wiggle room ...

OSCON: Zenoss Brings Open Source to Cisco’s UCS Party

All the great commercial open source companies are in attendance here in Portland.  I had the chance to catch up with Mark Hinkle from Zenoss to hear about their latest 3.0 release which was just announced before this weeks event, and how they are bringing their open source monitoring solution to the proprietary Cisco UCS ...

OSCON: OpSource Unveils New Solutions Strategy and Parnter Program

The news continues to flow from OSCON here in Portland.  After Rackspace dropped a bombshell with their OpenStack announcement Sunday night, managed services and cloud provider OpSource is taking the wraps off of their partner program they have been putting together over the past couple of quarters. We have covered OpSource several times in the ...

RackSpace and Co Launch OpenStack, Cloud Landscape Changes Over Night

Last night, timed with the opening day of OSCON, hosting and managed service provider Rackspace, along with NASA and other organizations, launched the OpenStack project.  The project aims to create and foster a 100%, Apache 2.0 license backed, Cloud Computing stack that can be used by all. It did not take too long for the ...

Samsung Putting Pieces in Place for Huge 2011

With the mobile wars already in full swing between iPhone and Android battles, we have not seen anything yet as all the other players are circling their wagons with mobile wars looking to bubble over next year.  With Windows Phone releases slated for October-ish timeframe, and RIM getting ready for their new platform, Samsung is ...

SemTech 2010: Semantic Technologies Are Everywhere

Last week brought the annual Semantic Technology Conference to San Francisco.  This year saw not only a healthy increase in attendees, speaker sessions, and exhibitors, but also seemed to bring with it a new attitude that is more focused on the solutions, and not comparing itself to more "traditional technologies", such as relational databases. As ...

After Building Community, Thomson Reuters Ropes in Customers With Open Calais Service

In just over two years after launching its fantastic semantic Open Calais platform, Thomson Reuters is seeing great adoption of the commercial side of the service.  Starting out by exposing Open Calais as a free web service for anyone to use, and focusing on building out a community around the platform, Thomson Reuters has also ...

Eucalyptus Announces New $20 Million Round

Commercial Open Source Infrastructure-as-a-Service startup Eucalyptus is back in the news again with the announcement of a new $20 million round of financing.  The new round is led by NEA, as well as Benchmark and BV Capital participating in follow on rounds for themselves. After recently announcing their 2.0 release and new partner program they ...

Eucalyptus Enabling Private Clouds, Launches 2.0 and New Partner Program

It is a hectic and exciting week in the Enterprise and Cloud Computing space.  With no less then 5 events happening in the Bay Area many companies have announcements about their companies and product lines.  Amazon Web Services, Rackspace, and all the other public cloud providers are doing a great job to educate the market ...