Forget Amazon EC2, meet Eucalpytus ready for action, partners want to cash in!
By Tarry Singh at 10 February, 2010, 1:12 am
A lot is happening in the cloud space. When I started out with my linkedin goup on open source and all the lectures I have given here on the PAN-, MAN-, WAN- Clouds, tells us one thing I knew long before we all got so excited about the Cloud bandwagon: Open Source Cloud systems, will [...]
Read More >>Diane Greene makes a comeback, this time as investor with Andreessen Horowitz
By Tarry Singh at 7 February, 2010, 2:20 pm
Alex was reporting this and I happened to quickly run a check on this start-up that specializes in Virtualization and Networking. You can check out yourself on Nicira. As you can see here they have managed a total funding of $9M by now. Will their technology be hot? We don’t know, maybe I’ll talk to [...]
Read More >>Cloud Reality Check: Big software companies have duped customers for decades
By Tarry Singh at 5 November, 2009, 8:08 am
Very interesting series of thought by this CEO at Ingress Read on: If you’re ready to embrace change and begin looking at more cost efficient and innovative ways to run your IT infrastructure, here are five tips to help you extract yourself from expensive Big Software contracts that are holding your company hostage: 1. Introduce [...]
Read More >>Will Cloud Computing kill Open Source initiative in the Government sector?
By Tarry Singh at 10 September, 2009, 3:12 am
Before you read the rest of my psot, the answer is a resounding: “No”. Gartner ponders about it as we continue to work with our Gov Sector customers to help them do Massive Technology Refresh with open source as well. The model that many Gov (full and semi-gov sectors) is to basically move towards the [...]
Read More >>Networking cool cat Vyatta is now Citrix Ready!
By Tarry Singh at 9 June, 2009, 12:15 pm
Belmont, CA – 2009-06-09 05:00:00 – Vyatta, the leader in open networking and network virtualization, today announced it has joined the Citrix Ready™ product verification program to create solutions for customers deploying cloud computing infrastructure. The two companies have verified product compatibility between Vyatta’s open networking solutions and the Citrix Cloud Center(C3) product family to [...]
Read More >>Is Amazon AWS APIs for EC2, S3 etc poised to go Open Source? I don’t think so.
By Tarry Singh at 30 May, 2009, 4:44 am
I am not sure if that will help Amazon get its feet inside the enterprise customers. Enterprises have heard of those open source start-ups but won’t do any business with them unless there is some sense of security and trusted advisory role of the vendor. Although it’s only a rumor, Reuven Cohen reports hearing from [...]
Read More >>Xen 3.4 launches with XCI (Xen Client Initiative), Power Management features!
By Tarry Singh at 19 May, 2009, 12:49 pm
The new release, Xen 3.4, furthers the vision of creating a powerful, efficient, and ubiquitous virtualization hypervisor. As part of the Xen community’s commitment to continuous improvement, the new hypervisor offers significant enhancements in the following areas: • Xen Client Initiative (XCI) Enhancements –Xen.org continues develop industry virtualization standards for desktop and client devices. Xen [...]
Read More >>Why a firm chose for KVM instead of Xen or VMware
By Tarry Singh at 1 May, 2009, 9:11 am
From the horse’s mouth. Cost. Although our virtualization requirements are minimal–we need to run only two guest servers on a single host machine–VMware would have cost an astonishing amount of money. With features like VMware motion factored in, we were looking at a huge hit to the budget–and it didn’t help that VMware charges per [...]
Read More >>VMware launches partner innovation program with Open Source offerings!
By Tarry Singh at 10 February, 2009, 3:42 am
Desktop virtualisation is in its infancy, but is increasingly popular owing to its ‘low-cost, on-demand, secure, green IT’ positioning. With this move, VMware is helping the market to mature and is rightfully extending its influence over it by building on its strength as a server virtualisation technology provider. The open sourcing of VOC is intended [...]
Read More >>Biggest Desktop Virtualization project ever: 324,000 desktops delivered by Userful, ThiNetworks & Positivo
By Tarry Singh at 6 February, 2009, 12:02 pm
How on earth can you ever validate the high initial investments when it comes to this large scale. BRIC is opening up faster than you can imagine. I have been yelling for quite a while about it. I have been involved in international projects, purely CSER driven where we just don’t have that kind of [...]
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