Monthly Archives: July 2012

VMware Acquires Virtual Networking Leader Nicira For $1.26 Billion

VMware announced plans to acquire Nicira Inc., the leader in software-based networking and open source network virtualization. VMware will acquire Nicira for $1.26 billion composed of a cash payout of $1.05 billion and $210 million in “assumed unvested equity awards”. … Continue reading

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Reflections On OpenStack’s Second Birthday And The Way Forward

This past week, OpenStack turned two years old. A year ago, I examined OpenStack’s accomplishments upon the celebration of its first birthday. Since then, OpenStack’s technical and business development progress has been both meteoric and profound. A year ago, OpenStack … Continue reading

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CumuLogic Cloud Application Platform Turns IaaS and Virtualized Environments To Java PaaS

CumuLogic recently revealed the general availability of the CumuLogic Cloud Application Platform version 1.0, a platform that can transform Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and virtualized environments to Java-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) environments. The platform can transform IaaS … Continue reading

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Stackato 2.0 Features .NET Integration With Iron Foundry

As the PaaS market heats up, ActiveState continues to innovate with its “any language, any stack, any cloud” PaaS platform, Stackato. Vancouver-based ActiveState recently announced the release of Stackato 2.0, building upon its version 1.2 release in May. Highlights of … Continue reading

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Red Hat Continues IaaS, PaaS, Hybrid Cloud And Storage Solutions Rollout

At this year’s Red Hat Summit conference in Boston, Red Hat announced plans to release four sets of product packages that more accurately reflect the diversity of the company’s product line now that it has progressed beyond its roots in … Continue reading

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Mojix Uses Hadoop-based Big Data Analytics For RFID

Los Angeles-based Mojix has recently revolutionized the RFID space as a result of applying deep space signal processing technology communications to the commercial RFID industry. Mojix’s STAR 3000 technology can pick up signals from RFID tags as much as 600 … Continue reading

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Google Launches Google Compute Engine (GCE) IaaS Offering To Compete With Amazon Web Services

On Thursday, Google announced the availability of the Google Compute Engine (GCE), an Infrastructure as a Service offering that allows users to provision Linux Virtual Machines from the same technical infrastructure that powers Google’s fleet of servers. GCE was created … Continue reading

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Amazon Web Services Experiences Another Outage Due To East Coast Storms

On Friday, Amazon Web Services experienced its second outage in less than a month due to power failures caused by thunderstorms in Virginia. Amazon Web Services products that were affected by the outage included the Elastic Cloud Compute, Relational Database … Continue reading

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