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Puppet Enterprise – Brief Note

Puppet Enterprise – Brief Note

By Michael Coté on February 7, 2011

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 […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged automation, Brief Notes, Cloud, enterprise software, IT Management, Luke Kanies, Open source, puppet, Puppet Labs, Reductive Labs, Systems Management

OpenStack storage at Internap – OpenStack’s first production use – Brief Note

OpenStack storage at Internap – OpenStack’s first production use – Brief Note

By Michael Coté on January 18, 2011

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.

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Brief Notes, Cloud, cloudcases, Internap, Open source, OpenStack, Rackspace, Storage, Systems Management

A new run at the Java PaaS – CloudBees buys Stax – Brief Note

A new run at the Java PaaS – CloudBees buys Stax – Brief Note

By Michael Coté on December 14, 2010

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, […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ALM, Brief Notes, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CloudBees, Development Tools, Java, PaaS, Stax Networks, tasktop, VMware

GroundWork 6.3 – Brief Note

GroundWork 6.3 – Brief Note

By Michael Coté on October 11, 2010

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

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Brief Notes, dashboards, GroundWork, GWOS, marketing, Open source, pricing, Systems Management

Apigee – Brief Notes

Apigee – Brief Notes

By Michael Coté on September 22, 2010

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

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged API, Apigee, Brief Notes, Development Tools, freemium, marketing, mashups, Sonoa

CouchDB and CouchOne – Brief Notes

CouchDB and CouchOne – Brief Notes

By Michael Coté on September 8, 2010

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.

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Brief Notes, Cloud, CouchDB, NoSQL, Open source, PaaS, Programming

Cloupia – Brief Note

Cloupia – Brief Note

By Michael Coté on August 24, 2010

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.

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Brief Notes, Cloud, Cloupia, enterprise software, Systems Management

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