Many news cycles have been burned on the debate over whether OpenStack-based cloud providers should or need to support the major Amazon Web Services APIs. Cloudscaling…
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OpenStack Juno debuts, more moving and shaking by cloud providers
The week in cloud: OpenStack M&A continues -- stay tuned for more action. And Max Schireson on MongoDB momentum (and why he stepped down as CEO.)…
Read MoreEMC buys Cloudscaling as the great cloud consolidation continues
EMC has just closed a deal to buy Cloudscaling, provider of an AWS API compatible OpenStack cloud.…
Read MoreCloudscaling in the hunt for a new CEO
OpenStack cloud player and its CEO have agreed to part ways, writes CTO Randy Bias.…
Read MoreRackspace blogger-in-chief Robert Scoble pooh-poohs need for Amazon API compatibility
Robert Scoble says Rackspace and other OpenStack players would be better off building new cloud features and functions instead of Amazon API compatibility.…
Read MoreAmazon battles IBM for soul of future IT; the week in cloud
The spat over who builds the CIA's stealth cloud is just the first of many battles as traditional IT companies seek to prove they're relevant in cloud computing.…
Read MoreIs Rackspace holding OpenStack back?
CloudScaling CTO Randy Bias argues that Amazon Web Services APIs are already the lingua franca of the cloud and supporting them is key to OpenStack success.…
Read MoreOpenStack cloud builder Cloudscaling nets $10M from Juniper, Seagate and friends
New funding will help Cloudscaling continue to build out its Open Cloud System to suit a new class of enterprise applications that want to build on OpenStack.…
Read MoreEucalyptus supports Netflix tools to prove its Amazon cloud compatibility
Eucalyptus wants to be the most compatible of AWS-compatible private clouds and says its support of Netflix OSS tools proves it is just that.…
Read MoreCloudscaling, HP update their OpenStack clouds
Just in time for the OpenStack Summit: new-look vendor Cloudscaling and legacy IT giant HP beef up their respective OpenStack clouds.…
Read MoreAmazon is the cloud to beat, but Google has the cloud to watch. Here’s why.
So who will be number two in public cloud after Amazon Web Services? Smart money is now on Google Compute Engine. With caveats, of course.…
Read MoreRackspace gussies up private cloud with new OpenCenter dashboard
Rackspace says its new dashboard, part of its latest OpenStack-based private cloud release, will speed up cloud rollouts and configuration tasks by adding point-and-click capabilities for enteprise users.…
Read MoreGoogle cloud grows up with more support options
Business customers who want more support than Google Groups or Stack Overflow for Google Cloud workloads can now choose from four tiers of Google-branded support.…
Read MoreComodIT takes on autoscaling as it moves towards being a ‘cloud brokering enabler’
The Belgian IT automation startup is now trying to address the scaling needs of its users. But before it leaves beta, it also wants to figure out the billing piece of the cloud broker business.…
Read MoreWhat we’ll see in 2013 in cloud computing
Next year, "the cloud" will finally be ready for enterprise workloads and big companies will finally start moving them there. Data centers will stop being enclosed by walls and those are just two of GigaOM's 5 big cloud predictions. Read on for more.…
Read MoreNew OpenStack clouds mean something for everyone
If there isn't an OpenStack cloud you fancy, wait a second, there's more -- a lot more -- in the pipeline. Cloudscaling, Metacloud and Dreamhost will all preview their take on the open-source cloud this week at the OpenStack Summit in San Diego.…
Read MoreTop 8 questions for the OpenStack Summit
If the OpenStack Summit is anywhere near as dramatic as the events leading up to it, it will be a really good show. As the open-source cloud effort transitions from a Rackspace-dominated move to a true community effort, here are 8 big questions.…
Read MoreVMware to join OpenStack: Now what?
VMware's decision to join the OpenStack Foundation could be a huge or not-so-huge deal. Some see the move as a way to outflank Citrix, others say VMware's Nicira, DynamicOps buys signaled a desire to at least appear more open in the era of cloud computing.…
Read MoreIs it too late for OpenStack?
Amid all the OpenStack news this week, there is a feeling in some quarters that two years after Rackspace and NASA launched this attempt to counter Amazon Web Services and VMware, it may be too late for the effort to take hold.…
Read MoreCloudscaling wants to make OpenStack webscale
Cloud computing consultancy Cloudscaling is realigning its business around the open-source OpenStack framework, and it has a message for the world: If you want to use open-source software but operate like Amazon Web Services, we're your man.…
Read MoreFor today’s business, the API is the new website
In recent years, the increasing abundance of open APIs have changed the way companies do business -- in a major way. Some even say that a company having an API today is just as common, and important, as having a website in the year 2000.…
Read MoreA Business Picks Up, Cloudscaling Nabs a New CEO
Cloud-design guru Randy Bias has stepped down as CEO of the company he co-founded, Cloudscaling, but will remain on as CTO. Bias wrote on this blog today that Michael Grant is coming on board as CEO so that Bias can focus on technical innovation, his forte.…
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