Posts Tagged ‘ cloud.com ’

News: Citrix Acquires Cloud.com

July 12, 2011
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Citrix has purchased Cloud.com and this poses some interesting changes to the overall virtualization and cloud markets. One also has to wonder about the timing of the announcement to coincide with the same day as the big announcements coming out of VMware. I see this purchase as a mixed blessing to the market place, but…

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OpenStack on Hyper-V – Microsoft does Public Cloud Interoperability

November 11, 2010
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On October 22nd, Microsoft announced that it has partnered with Cloud.com to provide integration and support of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V to the OpenStack project. The announcement caused a great deal of interest here at the Virtualization Practice, as it signals an unexpected willingness on Microsoft's part to pursue interoperability at the IaaS layer,…

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Why Cloud.com is NOT a drowning turkey

August 23, 2010
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We recently annoyed Peder Ulander of Cloud.com by suggesting when Cloud.com joined OpenStack it was a Turkey waiting for Thanksgiving. We spoke, here's what we said about Cloud computing, OpenStack, Licensing, Eclipse, innovation, billing and a stack of other things.

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VMworld from an Open Source Perspective

August 16, 2010
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VMworld is clearly the largest dedicated virtualization conference, and yet from an Open Source perspective it is slightly disappointing because the VMware ecosystem naturally attracts proprietary software vendors, and also some of the more interesting activities in Open Source are through multi-vendor foundations which do not have the same marketing budgets as vendors themselves. Nevertheless,…

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More on OpenStack – Cloud.com, GPL, Citrix, Oracle and the DMTF standards.

August 3, 2010
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Cloud.com had lined itself up with Citrix by using only XenServer in the commercially-licensed version of its IaaS product, and now is being used by Citrix to ensure OpenStack supports XenServer (which it doesn’t at the moment), presumably to keep Red Hat’s KVM under control and VMware out. We’ve also been trawling through the available…

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