Open Source and Cloud Computing

Clear Tookit on Ulitzer Development of enterprise Flex/Java rich Internet applications benefits from using automated data integration solutions and productivity tools. Currently Adobe offers LiveCycle Data Services ES2 (LCDS) and open source BlazeDS 3. While LCDS is certainly a ... (more)

Rackspace Session at Cloud Expo Rackspace has picked up the Drizzle team that Oracle cast off when it acquired Sun. In case you don't know, Drizzle is a cloud-directed, Linux-leaning, stripped-down, hitherto for unsupported, GPL 2 MySQL 6.0 fork that Rackspace is betting will i... (more)

Mashup Track at Cloud Expo JackBe enterprise mashup software company, on Thursday announced that its award-winning Presto Enterprise Mashup Platform is now running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. ‘Presto Cloud (Community Edition)’ is immediately available at no cost to all memb... (more)

IBM Session at Cloud Expo In life, occasionally it is refreshing to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. In the context of cloud computing, it is imperative that you do this quite often. While it is easy to be focused and locked into a particular segment of the cloud... (more)

Open Cloud Collaboration on Ulitzer Open-Xchange, a provider of business-class open source collaboration software, and eleven, Germany's leading e-mail security provider, have agreed on comprehensive technical cooperation to easily add e-mail security to all Open-Xchange product... (more)

SYS-CON Events announced today that Zenoss, a provider of Unlegacy IT enterprise management products for the virtual and cloud-based dynamic datacenter, has been named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place o... (more)

Infrastructure On Demand on Ulitzer If you are a cloud provider or consumer, specifically in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) landscape, it's hard not to be excited by the work going on in the Open Grid Forum (OGF) Open Cloud Computing Interface Working Group. Owing to the... (more)

Java Developer Magazine on Ulitzer I’ve been working in the software development industry for coming up on 20 years now. In fact in 2011 will officially mark my 20 year anniversary since graduating from college and entering industry. Over that time I have worked in a wide variet... (more)

SaaS Journal on Ulitzer SGI Thursday announced Cyclone, describing it as "the world's first large-scale, on-demand cloud computing service specifically dedicated to technical applications." Hmmm. SGI must not be paying much attention to its competition ‘cause Penguin Computer b... (more)

Cloud Computing on Ulitzer In this article, we take a look at the basic interoperability requirements when communicating with the Cloud, and in particular at techniques and standards used to express and enforce wire-level contracts between communicating parties, as these parties... (more)

Virtualization Magazine on Ulitzer As a rapidly increasing number of developers are tapping into the cloud and moving away from traditional enterprise offerings, VMware is also taking appropriate steps on the home front with respect to its vCloud platform. Its cloud initiative ha... (more)

OpenNebula Cloud on Ulitzer Future enterprise data centers will look like private clouds supporting a flexible and agile execution of virtualized services, and combining local with public cloud-based infrastructure to enable highly scalable hosting environments. The key compone... (more)

OpenNebula Cloud topic launched today on Ulitzer, as the leading information source for this open source Cloud Computing platform. OpenNebula, which was was born as a research project in 2005 by Dr. Rubén S. Montero,  Dr. Ignacio M. Llorente, is an open and flexible tool that fits... (more)

Although I haven’t seen a thoroughly researched study, I figure there must be at least 250,000 FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) tools available to every systems administrator on the planet (230,000 at SourceForge + 15,000 at Launchpad + 12,000 at CodePlex + 5,000 at Google Co... (more)

Download uptime software's Virtual Appliance here. uptime software announced that its up.time 5 product has been named the '2009 Network Management Product of the Year' by Techworld. Selected over hundreds of entries by an independent panel of judges consisting of highly respected... (more)

SYS-CON Events announced today that Adaptivity, the IT transformation company, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New Y... (more)

Eclipse at Cloud Expo Oisín Hurley is one of the smartest, funniest and best looking people in the Eclipse community*. So when he says jump, I jump. That's right it is the last day to get your EclipseCon submission for a talk in. If you have been doing anything interesting with ... (more)

MySQL at Cloud Expo The MySQL developer community has announced "a Milestone release", 5.5.0 of the popular open source, relational database software. The release it says are of beta quality but leaves scope for more frequent subsets releases of tested functionality akin to JBoss... (more)

Sun Sessions at Cloud Expo Sun Microsystems has unveiled what is being called the first fully functional cloud-based Desktop as a Service (DaaS) for grammar schools and community colleges. The new product is in line with Sun’s vision to build and deploy public and private cloud... (more)

Crystal Reports at Cloud Expo The founders of Crystal Reports and veterans of Microsoft, Symmetrics and Business Objects have launched a start-up out of Vancouver called Indicee that's developed a cloud-based reporting application meant to give SMBs frustrated with cutting and p... (more)