
Your very own OpenStack Cloud – Quick Analysis
Rackspace announces a support plan for OpenStack, while Dell, Rackspace, and Opscode announce an OpenStack installer for quick cloud building.

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.

SAP Private Cloud Work and Big Data – Press Pass
My discussions with the tech press about SAP’s recent Big Data and private cloud announcements.

AppMatcher.com – Rackspace SaaS Summit
Rackspace got into the app store/marketplace space today with the launch of it’s AppMatcher service.

News Analysis: New HP Leadership Indicates Interest In Enterprise Software
Two Seasoned Software Veterans Join Hewlett-Packard On September 30th, 2010, Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced two significant changes in its leadership structure. Former SAP CEO Léo Apotheker was named as CEO; and Kleiner Perkins partner and former Oracle COO, Ray Lane was named as non-executive Chairman. These two appointments signal a seriousness to shake things up for […]

Is the Open Stack Cloud Announcement a Big Deal?
Open stack MIGHT be a big deal, it awaits adoption to see. In discussions with the Enterprise Irregulars, the question came up of whether it was a good analog to view Open Stack as the “Android” to Amazon’s “iPhone” (where is their antennagate?). This is an interesting metaphor as much for what it tells us about […]

OpenStack – an open source cloud platform
Rackspace announced the OpenStack project today, open sourcing much of the software it uses to run its own cloud. I spoke with Rackspace’s Jonathan Bryce on the topic to get an in-depth overview, discuss Rackspace’s intentions, and explore the operational future of OpenStack. This is a big announcement in the cloud world, further widening the […]

Don’t Believe the Hype, Come to NoSQL EU April 20-22
One of the hottest topics in software development right now is what is being called NoSQL. What is that? I kind of like the definition from no-sqldatabase.org
NoSQL databases mostly address some of the points: being non-relational, distributed, open-source and horizontal scalable. The original intention has been modern web-scale […]