As the desktop moves to the cloud, Microsoft is running behind again

And what’s funny is that Microsoft, the company that lays claim to the desktop in business with the Office/Windows franchise is getting left behind by the likes of Google and Amazon.

January 2014 Web Server Survey

10 Reasons Why Ruby Hosting is Best on OpenShift

The idea of PaaS came from the Ruby land and nowadays the market there is quite saturated. OpenShift came from a polyglot by design and Ruby is very well supported. Let's take a look why OpenShift is a great option for a Ruby developer.

Red Hat Advances OpenShift Enterprise Platform-as-a-Service

Red Hat is officially releasing the next generation of its on-premises OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud solution. OpenShift Enterprise 2.0 brings new data center and networking features that expand on the initial promise of the first release of the OpenShift Enterprise platform in 2012.

Dell and Red Hat Could Co-Engineer Success in the Cloud

As 2014 gets underway, one of the biggest stories in all of open source has to be the transformation going on at Red Hat as it moves from being squarely Linux-focused to becoming a big player in the cloud computing space. As The Register notes, the company has "scraped up its Linux, virtualization, OpenStack and cloud management businesses into a new infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) unit."

Getting to Know ownCloud

As the new year begins, many people are focused on cloud computing, and that includes people who are focused on building out their own individual cloud environments. As we covered here, you can go beyond what services such as Dropbox and Box offer by leveraging ownCloud, an open source platform that lets you set up your own cloud computing instance, which means you don't have to have your files sitting on servers that you don't choose, governed by people you don't know.

ownCloud 6 Community Edition Officially Released with Innovative Features

ownCloud, Inc. is proud to announce today, December 11, that the Community Edition of its highly anticipated ownCloud 6 open source DIY (Do It Yourself) cloud server software is now available for download/upgrade with an improved design.

ownCloud 6 Community Edition Officially Released with Innovative Features

ownCloud, Inc. is proud to announce today, December 11, that the Community Edition of its highly anticipated ownCloud 6 open source DIY (Do It Yourself) cloud server software is now available for download/upgrade with an improved design.

I have been fooling around

My conclusion is clearly 'enthusiasm'. I will certainly be using ownCloud as my private cloud server from now on and I can see some very cool ideas coming in the future. I'm exited about WebODF working with ODF documents using JavaScript and I can see many useful things to use it for. I can clearly see ownCloud useful for small business and e.g., schools and NGOs.

Open Source ownCloud Project Puts IT in File Synchronization Control

One of the most obvious reasons that services such as Dropbox or Box are so popular with end users is that most internal IT organizations simply haven’t had a way to offer that capability. End users were acquiring mobile computing devices by the millions and they simply needed a way to share files.

ShapeBlue Offering Commercial Support for Apache CloudStack

It's been nearly two years since Citrix contributed its CloudStack open source cloud computing platform to the Apache Software Foundation, a move that gave the platform a leg up in the competitive open source cloud computing race. And, CloudStack continues to gain rapid adoption with large scale deployments around the world. In October, Apache announced the arrival of version 4.2 online, as we covered here.

Announcing Apache CloudStack 4.2.1

Red Hat, With Dell, Could Provide Much Needed OpenStack Direction

Dell pushes enterprise with OpenStack deal

Dell's Director of Cloud and Big Data solutions answers questions "why OpenStack?" and "Why partner with Red Hat to offer OpenStack solutions?"

OpenStack's New Icehouse Version is Coming in April

How OpenStack parallels the adoption of Linux

In spite of its considerable momentum, there are still skeptics about whether OpenStack will ultimately succeed. My colleague tackled some of that skepticism in a blog post last year and I’m not going to rehash those arguments here. Rather, I’m going to make some observations about how OpenStack is paralleling, and will likely continue to parallel, the adoption of another open source project that I think we can all agree has become popular and successful—namely Linux. [1]

Short Stack: How OpenStack should engage AWS, OpenStack grows up

OpenStack Retools to Engage More Cloud User Feedback, Interoperability

How do you get more users to contribute ideas to an open-source cloud effort? The OpenStack Foundation has a plan.

Analyzing how contributions to OpenStack can be made easier

What do you know about OpenStack?

OpenStack is a set of software tools for building and managing cloud computing platforms for public and private clouds. Backed by some of the biggest companies in software development and hosting, as well as thousands of individual community members, many think that OpenStack is the future of cloud computing. OpenStack is managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit which oversees both development and community-building around the project.

IBM Delivers Jumpgate, an API Bridge Between OpenStack and Public Clouds

IBM has jumped through a number of hoops with its cloud computing strategy in the past couple of years. The company--which had been firmly in the OpenStack camp--eventually decided to spend billions to buy SoftLayer for its cloud computing infrastructure tools and services. Since then, it has committed billions more to its SoftLayer investment, and many have seen IBM as having completely dropped its original commitment to OpenStack.

Short Stack: Data as a Service takes off, top OpenStack vendors jockey for position

Open Stack Adoption Fun Facts & Surprises

Enterprises Ask More from Hadoop, Need More Skilled Practitioners

At enterprises around the world, as the Big Data trend spreads out, you can hardly talk technology anymore without the conversation focusing on Hadoop, the star open source framework for drawing insights from large data sets. We've also reported that the job market is very healthy for people with Hadoop and Big Data skills.

Cray brings Hadoop to supercomputing

Cray has released a package designed to allow XC30 users to easily deploy Hadoop

Why elephants never forget big data

Hortonworks is down at the watering hole, blowing its trumpet and enjoying a period of positive development.

Just in case you missed the elephantine reference, Hortonworks (named after the elephant in Horton Hears A Who!) is a commercial vendor of Apache Hadoop, the open source platform for distributed processing of big data sets across clusters of computers.

The Questions for Hadoop Moving Forward

In the beginning – October, 2003 to be precise – there was the Google File System. And it was good. MapReduce, which followed in December 2004, was even better. Together, they served as a framework for Doug Cutting’s original work at Yahoo, work that resulted in the project now known as Hadoop in 2005.

After being pressed into service by Yahoo and other large web properties, Hadoop’s inevitable standalone commercialization arrived in the form of Cloudera in 2009. Founded by Amr Awadallah (Yahoo), Christophe Bisciglia (Google), Jeff Hammerbacher (Facebook) and Mike Olson (Oracle/Sleepycat) – Cutting was to join later – Cloudera oddly had the Hadoop market more or less to itself for a few years.

Elasticsearch Couples Analytics to Big Data Search

HP vs AWS : An open source battle for two worlds

OpenSaaS and the future of government IT innovation

2014 Technology Predictions Series: Think Big Analytics on Big Data

Are Cloud Operating Systems the Next Big Thing?

You may have heard the new buzz word “Cloud Operating System” a few times in the last few months.

Time for Netflix to Embrace Open Source Cloud Partners?

A timely call for a secure yet open cloud