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‘IaaS’ Articles Summary

• VMware announces more information about vCloud Hybrid Services
• VMware announces vCloud Hybrid Service
• Release: OpenNebula Cloud Management Platform 3.8
• Amazon EC2′s new competitor: ProfitBricks
• Release: Eucalyptus Systems Eucalyptus 3.1
• Citrix announces new version of CloudStack
• NetApp joins Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track programme
• Release: TurnKey Hub 1.0
• Microsoft releases beta of SCVMM 2012
• Microsoft unlocks the IaaS component of Windows Azure
• Release: Morphlabs mCloud Controller 2.5
• Release: Novell Cloud Manager 1.1
• Nimbula launches Director 1.0 public beta
• VMware releases .NET and PHP SDKs for vCloud API
• Xen Cloud Platform hits 1.0 beta
• Amazon offers direct access to GPU in EC2, how much before DaaS?
• Microsoft announces Hyper-V Cloud programs for private IaaS clouds
• tuCloud lowers its DaaS pricing to $29.99 per month thanks to Kaviza
• Gartner: Microsoft and VMware the only leading players in cloud computing by 2013
• OpenStack to support Hyper-V in Q1 2011
• Finally Microsoft announces Windows Azure IaaS role, support for Server App-V
• Microsoft confirms (again) that Azure will have a IaaS component
• Amazon introduces EC2 free tier (sort of)
• About the HP cloud computing strategy
• VMware replaces vCenter Lifecycle Manager with vCloud Request Manager – UPDATED
• VMware to announce vCloud Request Manager
• enStratus adds support for AT&T, EMC and ServerExpress clouds
• RightScale secures $25M in Series C funding
• The challenge of comparing public cloud offering prices
• Release: Makara Cloud Application Platform 1.0
• Nimbula secures $15M in Series B funding
• Release: Enomaly Elastic Computing Platform 3.4
• Amazon introduces EC2 price reduction, micro instances, optimized Linux AMI and a boatload of new features
• Private cloud computing is near the Peak of Inflated Expectations in Gartner Hype Cycle
• Gartner: Cloud computing services represents 10% of spending on external IT services
• Paper: VMware vCloud Director Security Hardening Guide
• Announcing the Cloud Computing Industry Radar
• Amazon EC2 now powered by Oracle VM Server too – UPDATED
• Release: Novell Cloud Manager 1.0
• Release: VMware vCloud Director 1.0 – UPDATED
• Eucalyptus Systems releases the open source edition of Eucalyptus 2.0
• VMware renames vCloud Service Director, bundles it with vCenter Chargeback and vShield Edge
• Cloupia leaves the stealth mode and enters the IaaS cloud management market
• Attribo gets ready to sell its management solution for IaaS clouds
• Skydera leaves the stealth mode and enters the cloud management market
• VMware to announce vCloud API 1.0
• PiCloud opens the beta of its PaaS cloud
• On the OpenStack open source strategy and the impact on Eucalyptus Systems
• How to use $6 on Amazon EC2 to tear down a target infrastructure
• Skytap introduces organizational policy management for its IaaS cloud
• UBS Securities predicts Amazon AWS revenue to reach $500M this year
• Mark Russinovich joins the Windows Azure team
• Cloud will happen in government, but it will happen cautiously says former US CIO
• Google App Engine PaaS cloud can run on-premises with AppScale
• C12G Labs announces OpenNebula 2.0 beta program
• DMTF started working on a cloud computing standard API
• Deltacloud now part of Apache Incubator
• The Cloud Security Alliance launches the CCSK security certification
• A private cloud is still a giant computer for VMware
• Yahoo! to move to Xen for cloud computing
• Amazon allows penetration testing against EC2
• Axibase launches a reporting tool for Amazon EC2
• Web Hosting Talk to launch another benchmark for IaaS clouds
• Oracle prepares a IaaS cloud platform, releases a management API
• VMware answers to Rackspace on OpenStack
• Rackspace open sources its cloud computing platform
• The Planet selects KVM for IaaS cloud hosting
• IBM opens a second cloud computing data center in Europe
• Virtuon launches a VMware-powered Desktop-as-a-Service cloud
• Xen.org is evaluating GRE for network isolation in XCP
• Amazon allows VMs custom Linux kernel on EC2
• What is the Intel Hybrid Cloud?
• Morphlabs launches mCloud, secures $5.5M in Round B funding
• Symplified brings SSO to Amazon EC2 with Trust Cloud
• Amazon introduces the Cluster Compute Instances for EC2
• Microsoft to offer Azure on-premises – UPDATED
• CloudAudit API 1.0 submitted as IETF draft
• CloudSleuth service benchmarks IaaS and PaaS worldwide clouds
• Eucalyptus Systems secures $20M in Series B funding
• ManageIQ extends EVM Suite support to Service-now.com
• Release: CloudSwitch Enterprise 1.0
• enStratus introduces support for VMware vSphere private clouds and Google public storage cloud
• Zuora launches a billing system for cloud platforms
• VMware working to port the Spring framework on Amazon EC2
• Diane Greene is back: Nimbula leaves the stealth mode and enters the IaaS cloud computing market