Canonical offers tech support for clouds • Channel Register
"Canonical today announced something it is calling Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services, which as the name suggests is a tech support offering for clouds based on the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud variant of the Ubuntu software stack, which was released as a technical preview in April."
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Red Hat Announces Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program to Enable Wider Enterprise Cloud Adoption
"The Red Hat Premier Cloud Provider Program has been established to address the increased interest in cloud computing from Red Hat customers, both in building virtualized internal infrastructure systems and extending their applications into the clouds. Red Hat customers seek the flexibility to transfer and use Red Hat subscriptions on premise and/or in cloud environments, with support and compatibility. Red Hat customers have also requested the ability to rent elastic computing by-the-hour with access to consistent, technical support, security updates and compatibility with existing IT resources. This program aims to provide more flexibility for Red Hat customers when developing and deploying their applications."
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I.B.M. Looks to Sell Big Business on Cloud Computing - NYTimes.com
"In 2000, the Linux operating system was a hot technology, but it had not spread much beyond scientists, researchers and computer programmers. Then I.B.M. declared that it would back Linux with investment, research and marketing, and the technology moved swiftly into the corporate mainstream."
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IBM releases new enterprise cloud portfolio | The Wisdom of Clouds - CNET News
"Targeted at providing standardized platforms for specific computing workloads, the products and services, launched under the Smart Business and IBM CloudBurst monikers, aim to change the way IT organizations build and deliver IT services."
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IBM cloud chief: Private clouds a fit for test and development | Cloud Computing - InfoWorld
"Enterprises are embracing private cloud networks to improve the efficiency of test and development organizations, IBM cloud computing software chief Kristof Kloeckner says. Test and development systems are generally not highly utilized, he notes. IT provisions servers and storage for specific purposes, but then doesn't reclaim them when that purpose has been fulfilled, leading to a shortage of resources. Secondly, procuring servers and setting them up takes longer than users would like."
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Cloud Computing And More With IBM's Dr. Angel Luis Diaz - Analytics - InformationWeek
"At IBM's IMPACT 2009, Dr. Angel Luis Diaz and I talked about BPM working in the cloud and how he sees Business Event Processing (BEP) differ from traditional Complex Event Processing (CEP)."
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Whitepaper: Linux: The Operating System of the Cloud · March 2009
"After struggling to reach mainstream status in the technology world for years, utility computing may yet arrive in the coming quarters. This time around, however, it will be known as cloud computing. And when cloud computing does cross the chasm into mainstream adoption, it will be powered by Linux."
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Linux's position in cloud computing efforts
"Although Linux is currently the cloud platform of choice, O'Grady did not rule out competition from proprietary vendors in the future. So far, however, the cloud phenomenon is definitely speeding Linux adoption, he said."
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Computerworld > Cloud computing needs better security, interoperability
"Ultimately, cloud vendors will be judged on five broad categories: security, scalability, availability, performance and cost-effectiveness"
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Java makes Google App Engine more mainstream | Webware - CNET
"Thus far, App Engine had been limited to Web applications written in the Python programming language favored internally at Google but not as much elsewhere. But on Tuesday, the top-requested App Engine feature, support for Java programs, arrived--albeit only in a preview form initially available only to the first 10,000 developers who sign up."
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The Open Cloud Manifesto Debuts
"Meanwhile, despite the early hoopla about the manifesto and who is supporting it, the effort is a step in the right direction. And it is expected that the big-name holdouts will come to the table in some form to have open discussions about the topic."
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Microsoft Azure cloud suffers first crash | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
An "azure screen of death"?
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Is Washington ready for cloud computing? | Politics and Law - CNET News
"The financial downturn, momentum from the private sector, and a new Web-savvy administration have come together to create the perfect climate for government adoption of cloud computing, said software as a service vendors, federal information technology purchasers, and others at a cloud-computing conference here Wednesday."
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Google Adds Billing to App Engine
"Google announced Feb. 24 that the company has added billing to the Google App Engine cloud computing platform so developers can exceed the free usage quotas that have been in place. Google also said it will soon be reducing, but not eliminating, the free quotas."
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Ubuntu's next release: Karmic Koala - InternetNews:The Blog - Sean Michael Kerner
"Yup you read that right. Ubuntu is workin on cloud stuff including the development of a build your own cloud technology called Eucalyptus."
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David S. Linthicum Unfiltered: Is Microsoft being left out of cloud computing?
"Moreover, and I found this out myself as CEO of two cloud computing companies, it's just not very PC to leverage Microsoft these days. The VC doesn't like it, the cloud computing end users don't like it, and the developers don't like it. Whatever PR war that was being fought by Microsoft in the emerging cloud space is long lost, if you ask me."
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Is Google App Engine successful? | The Wisdom of Clouds - CNET News
"So, all of this might lead you to believe I'm anti-App Engine, or at least not confident that it is important except as a PaaS example. And until yesterday, you would be right. However, I spent the day yesterday at the Cloud Connect conference, hosted at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Google was much more visible here (in part because they were a "platinum sponsor"), and perhaps more importantly, the "how to" sessions they hosted Wednesday afternoon were packed by interested developers and technologists."
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Open-Source Cloud Tools Project Spawns Cloud Foundry
"The Cloud Tools project, hosted on Google Code, is a prime example of the emerging trend of open-source application developers targeting the cloud and looking at services such as Amazon Web Services solutions and Google App Engine to host their applications. Cloud Tools is a set of tools for deploying, managing and testing Java Enterprise Edition applications on Amazon.com's Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud. And now the Cloud Tools project's founder has launched a commercial service based on Cloud Tools known as Cloud Foundry."
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The Wisdom of Clouds - a blog about cloud computing by James Urquhart - CNET News
"The Wisdom of Clouds, a CNET Tech blog by James Urquhart, covers cloud computing, virtualization, SaaS, data centers, and much more."
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Consortium tackles cloud computing standards - Network World
"Everyone’s talking about building a cloud these days. But if the IT world is filled with computing clouds, will each one be treated like a separate island or will open standards allow all to interoperate with each other? That’s one of the questions being examined by the Open Cloud Consortium (OCC), a newly formed group of universities that is both trying to improve the performance of storage and computing clouds spread across geographically disparate data centers and promote open frameworks that will let clouds operated by different entities work seamlessly together."
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