
Puppet Enterprise – Brief Note
Puppet Labs released a major product last week, Puppet Enterprise, an integrated bundling of the open source automation platform, Puppet, and several of the other tools needed to get up and running fast. The Puppet Enterprise release is firming up Puppet Lab’s efforts in the mainstream world of enterprise datacenters and IT. While they have […]

OpenStack storage at Internap – OpenStack’s first production use – Brief Note
The open source cloud platform OpenStack has it’s first production use outside of the founding partners of Rackspace and NASA. Internap has launched, though still in beta, a cloud storage offering called XIPCloud that uses the OpenStack Object Storage.

A new run at the Java PaaS – CloudBees buys Stax – Brief Note
CloudBees has purchased Stax Networks (see their write-up) to build out their ambitions to become the leading Java PaaS. Thus far, CloudBees has been known as the Hudson in the cloud company, running the continuous build tool in the cloud (on Amazon) for it’s beta users. Doing a build in the cloud is one thing, […]

GroundWork 6.3 – Brief Note
A new release from GroundWork and an update on their low-priced packaging, Quickstart.

Apigee – Brief Notes
Sonoa renames its self to Apigee, simplifying it’s offerings along a freemium model.

CouchDB and CouchOne – Brief Notes
The company behind the NoSQL database CouchDB has renamed itself from CouchIO to CouchOne. Here is my summary of the last briefing I had with Damien Katz, CEO and founder of the company.

Cloupia – Brief Note
Cloudpia is providing a “manager of managers” as we used to call it: a system that layers on-top of various virtualization and cloud technologies to give a birds-eye view and control over everything.