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On March 30, TurnKey Linux announced the availability of version 1.0 of the TurnKey Hub, a free web service that integrates TurnKey Linux with the Amazon Web Services cloud.
TurnKey Hub provides two main feature:
Amazon has announced that it now supports running Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2 on their Amazon Machine Images (AMI). Amazon is also planning to add support for running Windows Server 2008 R2 in the Amazon Virtual Privat Cloud (VPC). AWS VM Import is also updated so that importing Windows Server 2008 R2 is supported.
Cloud.com has released version 2.2. of its open source cloud architecture CloudStack. Despite the fact that Cloud.com and Microsoft announced support for Hyper-V in October last year, expected to be released in Q1 2011 as reported by cloudcomputing.info, the support didn’t made it into this release of CloudStack though.
Although Cloud.com did a lot of work to get Hyper-V supported in OpenStack in October last year, the code didn’t make it into the mainstream branch, until the release of Bexar. Cloud.com states that in the next few months, it will be implementing and integrate much of the OpenStack compute code into their platform, including the support for Hyper-V.
In December last year, cloudcomputing.info reported about the fact that Microsoft made a VM role available in their Azure cloud computing platform, in this article we outlined that creating the VM was overwhelmingly complex, especially compared to solutions from other vendors.
Giovanni Marchetti, who is Senior Technical Evengelist at Microsoft published an article on how to publish a Virtual Machine to Windows Azure.
Amazon has announced that it is now capable of providing customers with the ability to launch a dedicated instance on single-tenant hardware meeting requirements of customers which have regulatory or restrictions that require physical isolation.
Amazon uses a highly customized version of the Xen hypervisor, which can run several instance which now support an associated tenancy attribute, which set to default will keep the existing behaviour; meaning that a single physical machine can run instances launched by serveral different EC2 customers. When the tenancy attribute is set to dedicated, all instances launched are single-tenant. Amazon doesn’t guarantee that the instances share the same hardware though because it spreads the machines out in order to minimize the effects of a hardware failure.
During the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas last week Microsoft announced the public Beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, the successor of System Center Virtual Machine Manager R2 and evolving into a private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) management tool.
Most of the features were already detailed in November last year (here and here), and this version also includes the Server App-V functionality, which Microsoft made available in a Community Technology Preview (CTP) in December last year, also announcing that Server App-V will become available as a complementary technology to Windows Azure, Microsoft’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering.
Secludit, an European cloud security startup based in Sophia Antipolis, France, announced today the availability of Elastic Detector.
Elastic Detector is a security event detection tool targeted at Amazon EC2 infrastructures, engineered as a SaaS: the pricing model follows the cloud logics, charging $0.025 per server per hour (the first 30 days are provided for free).
Nimbula announced the general availability of its flagship product, Nimbula Director, in the next 30 days.
The original launch date was set in H2 2010, and it seems that after a beta launch in December the company is finally ready to launch its cloud solution.
Director will support different use cases, from bare-metal private clouds to large hybrid cloud environments where burst can be relocated to external public cloud services.
CloudShare has hired Guri Stark to become their President and Chier Executive Officer (CEO). Stark comes from Autodesk, where he was VP AutoCAD & Platform Products for 3 years. Before that he was VP of Corporate Marketing & Marketing Operations at Synopsys for 6 years in the timeframe 2002 – 2008. He also was VP of Marketing & Professional Services at Syntricity for 2 years in the timeframe 2000 – 2002.
Stark also worked for ENCAD, AutoDesk, Spectragrapics, and Auto-trol Technology.