Posts Tagged ‘cloud-computing’

On Who Will Build the LAMP Cloud

As we covered last week , Zend Technologies, whose founders created the PHP language, just got another $9 million in funding.

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Why IBM’s New Cloud Lab Is A Good Idea

Just the other day, we discussed the fact that while there are many open source initiatives surrounding cloud computing, there may need to be significant investments in infrastructure for them to have much of an impact. Organizations such as the Open Cloud Initiative and the Open Cloud Consortium have made efforts in this area, but deep pockets are probably required

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GigaOM Bunker Session Coming Up: On the Cloud and Open Source

Does the enterprise know that FOSS (Free Open Source Software) is a big foundation of its next phase of computing and will it actively fuel the future of FOSS? Or will we slip back to business as normal and proprietary software? The rise of cloud computing and SaaS has been in no small part due to the availability of enabling platforms and applications in the open source domain – tools like Hadoop, Xen and Puppet to name a few.

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MySQL Veteran Marten Mickos Joins Eucalyptus Systems

Eucalyptus Systems, the open souce cloud computing company that we’ve covered numerous times , has announced that former MySQL chief Marten Mickos is its new CEO. Some initial details on the deal appeared in The New York Times on Friday

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2010: The Year the Desktop OS No Longer Matters?

Last Friday, Sam’s Buffer Overflow run-down featured a piece by Walter Koenning discussing why campaigning hard for Linux on the desktop is selling open source — and the operating system — short. I agree with Vincent Danen that wondering whether Linux is ready for the desktop is silly, even irrelevant — wider usage tends to foster growth in related sectors (think cloud computing and virtualization).

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