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Release: Microsoft Service Bus for Windows Server 1.0

October 29, 2012 by editors

Microsoft last week announced the release of version 1.0 of the Service Bus for Windows Server. The Service Bus for Windows Server provides Windows Azure Service Bus messaging capabilities on Windows Server allowing customers to build, test and run message-driven applications in self-managed environments and on developer computers.

By releasing this component which works the same as the component in Azure, Microsoft makes it easier for companies leveraging the technology to later decide to host the application using the Service Bus to Windows Azure. The Service Bus is able to replace other so called Message Queuing (MQ) applications.

Release: Rackspace Cloud Block Storage, powered by OpenStack

October 25, 2012 by editors

On October 23, Rackspace announced the launch of High Performance Cloud Block Storage Products, powered by Openstack.

IT hosting and cloud computing company based in San Antonio, Texas, USA, is delivering a solution that is going to provide a better approach to attached storage in the Cloud by addressing customer demand for consistent and affordable performance for file systems, databases and other input/output (I/O) intensive applications, and according to their press release delivering high performance 5x to 6x faster than competing solutions.

Release: OpenNebula Cloud Management Platform 3.8

October 24, 2012 by editors

On October 22, OpenNebula project announced the availability of OpenNebula 3.8, Twin Jet.

The OpenNebula project provides a management console for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing platforms, with this release a set of new features are introduced and some old features are fixed. Furthermore OpenNebula 3.8 improved the integration with VMware and KVM, Twin Jet features an improved storage VMware interface with native support for VMFS and integration with cgroups and SPICE on KVM deployments.

Release: Citrix ShareFile with StorageZones

October 22, 2012 by editors

On October 17, at Citrix Synergy in Barcelona, it has been announced the release and availability of Citrix ShareFile with StorageZones.

Sharefile was acquired by Citrix one year ago, the solution for storing, syncing and sharing data securely. ShareFile with StorageZones would permit its customers the management of its data through a cloud-based service.

Nimbula joins OpenStack Community

October 17, 2012 by editors

On October 15, the OpenStack summit started in San Diego, California. The four days event is sold out this year, forcing a live streaming of the key note sessions.

One of the biggest news of the first day was the announcement of Nimbula joining OpenStack Community.

Paper: HP DBC Reference Architecture technical overview

October 16, 2012 by editors

HP has released a paper titled: "HP DBC Reference Architecture technical overview". The paper containing 55 pages details a reference architecture for database consolidation (DBC) provisioning, and running hundreds to thousands of I/O demanding workloads on a Microsoft private cloud. The DBC RA is based on a pre-tested, validated architecture design, thus eliminating the time-consuming tasks associated with designing, testing, and certifying the solution on-site. This can significantly lower the time to order the solution to when it is in place and ready to use by the business.

Release: Citrix XenServer 6.1

October 5, 2012 by editors

Citrix is really working hard these weeks, among aquisitions, partnerships and releases. On October 2nd, Citrix announced the release of the latest version of Citrix XenServer.

Citrix XenServer 6.1 , is a virtualization platform that allows to create and manage virtual infrastructures for servers, desktops and clouds, built on open-source Xen hypervisor.

Yandex opted for Nimbula Director for its private cloud infrastructure

October 3, 2012 by editors

On October 1st, Yandex, a Russian Internet company which develops a number of Internet-based services and products and owns the largest search engine in Russia announced to have choosen Nimbula Director for its private cloud infrastructure.

Nimbula Director is an extensible cloud platform that permits to build and manage private, hybrid or public clouds with global reach and scale. Yandex would employ Nimbula Director to improve its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) private cloud, as well as sharing

objects securely.

Release: Xen Cloud Platform 1.6 Beta

October 2, 2012 by editors

On October 1st, Xen announce the release of Xen Cloud Platform 1.6 Beta.

Xen scheduled a test day for October 9th, it would be possible to test the product, to give feedback and to report possible issues. Unless main problems are found the final release would be October 24.

While OpenStack releases Folsom, Gartner releases a report on OpenStack

October 2, 2012 by editors

On September 27, OpenStack released OpenStack 2012.2, also named Folsom.

OpenStack, the cloud computing project started by Rackspace and NASA in 2010, managed to release the project on schedule, as it was meant to be delivered before the OpenStack Design Summit, that will take place on October 15-18 in San Diego.

The Folsom release, which is the sixth version of the OpenStack software, was developed by about 350 open source developers, it counts with two new services, Networking (Quantum) and Block Storage (Cinder) and includes 185 new features to the project, especially focused in virtual networking.

While OpenStack gets ready for the summit, accomplishes to release on time its software and it is adding more companies in the project, Gartner is publishing a report warning to beware of the open source cloud computing project, and advises to better emply a third-party cloud management tool or API library that would be able to work with multiple clouds.