Year: 2012

Another company is joining Openstack: VMTurbo announced today, 25th July, to have joined the project for an open source cloud operating system.

VMTurbo was founded in 2009 and delivers a solution for cloud operation management. Their product is an Intelligent Workload Management and it is used by cloud services providers and enterprises worldwide to manage the collection of data and to control the environment, optimizing  the infrastructure on demand

As  a new collaborator of the OpenStack project launched two years ago by Rackspace and NASA, VMTurbo provides its intelligent workload management solution to optimize and ensure an efficient utilization of the infrastrucures.

Openstack is becoming rapidly the main open source cloud operating system and it is working to become the industry standard for public and private clouds.

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This week Gartner released an interesting research titled Evaluation Criteria for Cloud Management Platforms.

The document, published from Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP), is an assessment framework intended for that kind of enterprises that need a scorecard to autonomously assess or compare one or more products, develop a coherent RFI (Request for Information) or drive a POC (Proof of Concept).

Judging from the few public informations, these criteria could be used to evaluate products like:

• BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management
• CA Automation Suite for Clouds
• Cisco Intelligent Automation for Clouds
• HP Cloud Service Automation
• IBM SmartCloud Provisioning
• Microsoft System Center
• Red Hat CloudForms
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
• VMware vCloud Director (or the bundle called Cloud Infrastructure Suite)

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Yesterday GigaOm, reported that seven OpenStack developers have left Rackspace to work for Nebula.

The news, late confirmed by Chris C. Kemp, Founder & CEO at Nebula, Inc. and Co-Founder at OpenStack, state that most of the developers leaving came to Rackspace via its acquisition of Anso Labs in February 2011.

Both Rackspace and Nebula are part of the OpenStack project launched two years ago by Rackspace and NASA, when Chris C. Kemp was CTO of NASA.

The OpenStack collaboration was meant to build an open-source alternative to Amazon and VMware for their cloud computing and virtualization dominance.

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On July 2nd, VMware announced the acquisition of DynamicOps, Inc. Headquartered in Burlington, MA,

DynamicOps is a company that works in the emerging market for cloud automation solutions that enable provisioning and management of IT services across heterogeneous environments.

DynamicOps products help enterprises to accelerate the creation and the benefit of private and hybrid cloud adoption.

From the start of 2012, VMWare’s main focus was to help customers realize the benefit of virtualization, with the acquisition of DynamicOps and the combination of their existing products they could provide a complete infrastructure stack to build a cloud as well as a comprehensive management solution that addresses the consumption of cloud resources in a uniform way.

In this plan perfectly fits the recent acquisition of Nicira, specialized in software-defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization for open source initiatives.

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Private Cloud Solution Suite will be the new solution created to facilitate Systems Integrators and consultant working in Microsoft’s ecosystem to simplify the transition to private clouds infrastructures.

The suite should cover from Private Infrastructure as a Service and Cloud management tools to Private Platform as a Service focused on productivity and cloud putcomes for enterprise software developers.

The collaboration among ServiceMesh, Apprenda, Cloud Cruiser and Derdack is sponsorized by Microsoft, as the suite is supposed to be using Microsoft stack and will offer an enhanced market solution.

Each of the company brings to the solution an integration between the cloud computing technology and enterprise business value.

Aprenda provides PaaS technology to enterprise software developers, Cloud Cruiser cost intelligence soluction helps manage all aspect of IT cost including chargebacks, Derdak provides advances enterprise notifications and rapid response software. the ServiceMesh agility platform orchestrates delivers and manages applications across hybrid clouds.

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Update: A typo in the post title: Duncan Epping still holds its position at VMware.

CloudPhysics was founded on November 2011 by the former Product Manager for VMware’s John Blumenthal and Irfan Ahmad, former technical lead and co-inventor for two of VMware’s flagship features: Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control.

The company was presented for the first time publicly only yesterday, July 19th, at the New England VMUG.

As Irfan affirms on his Linkedin’s perfile:

CloudPhysics, a stealth-startup that will change the world. It is currently composed of smart people who have these things in common: the audacity and the capability to turn conventional wisdom on its head and to rethink the world of systems research.

CloudPhysics is focusing on centralized data, analytics and modeling data.

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Last week Big Switch Networks announced that OpenStack developers con now plug-in to the company’s open source OpenFlow Controller, Floodlight, for programable networking in multi-tenant cloud and virtualized environments.

The objective is to create and manage virtual networks using together both hypervisor-based virtual switches and OpenFlow physical switches filling the automation gap, in virtualized and cloud based infrastructures.

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Yesterday, the official Citrix’s Blog, published a post that talks about the  growth of CloudStack community since the donation to the Apache Software Foundation.

The author basically has shared two independent analysis as follows:

CloudStack has proof: Foundations is the way to create a FOSS community
“It’s just amazing! In just 3 months, CloudStack has gone directly to the same level as OpenStack is. This is much steeper community growth than I could have predicted”

CY12-Q2 Open Source Iaas Community Analysis — OpenStack vs OpenNebula vs Eucalyptus vs CloudStack
“During the past 3 months, the CloudStack numbers were growing at the fastest pace”

Today Google has revealed, through its developers’ blog, its plans to launch an Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) in competition with Amazon’s Elastic Compute (EC2) service.

Google Compute Engine will be focused on distributed computing power, in fact, according to Om Malik, Google is planning to show off a genomic app that runs on 600,00 cores and another that will use 10,000 virtual machines.

Following this marketing placement Google is going to initially offer a limited preview and then sell the service to customers that are looking for 100 or more cores.

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