North Bridge Venture Partners:
What:
2012 Future of Cloud Computing Survey
Who:
Presented by North Bridge Venture Partners in Collaboration with 38 industry
leading organizations.
Where:
Take Survey Here
When:
Final results presented on June 19, 2012 at www.northbridge.com/software
North Bridge Venture Partners and the 38 leading cloud organizations today
announced the launch of its 2nd annual Future of Cloud Computing Survey. The
survey will capture current perceptions, sentiments and future expectations
of cloud computing from industry experts, users and vendors of cloud
software, support and services. The goal of the survey is to measure how and
to what extent the cloud is being used, the key drivers of growth and change
in the cloud, and the impact the cloud is having on IT and business
operations. The survey will explore areas such as current use, dr... (more)
Today, offerings such as Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are
providing a new model for on demand compute resources based on virtual
machines. Virtual appliances are a natural deployment vehicle for this type
of infrastructure, allowing a clean separation between the memory, compute,
and storage resources managed by the appliance provider and the complete
software stack managed by the end user. Virtual appliances also allow a
simple transition from internal virtualization clusters to outsourced
providers, enabling capacity spikes to be handled.
This session will ... (more)
rPath announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the European
Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have been using rBuilder to deliver
virtual appliances to both scientists’ desktops and computational
clouds. The use of rBuilder in these environments reduces the effort required
to support users and allows researchers to take advantage of underutilized
computational resources.
rBuilder is a product that simplifies and automates the creation of virtual
appliances. A virtual appliance is an application with a streamlined
operating system, offered in a format... (more)
One of the most touted benefits of Linux and open source programs is their
flexibility. However, as the popularity of Linux has grown, some of the
flexibility seems to have been sacrificed. As larger Linux vendors have
become more standardized to support certified applications, the freedom to
mold your Linux distribution to your needs has diminished a bit.
Adding an unsupported kernel module or otherwise modifying your distro may
void your support contract or introduce other problems that are not easily
resolved. Even larger, well-established independent software vendors who wish ... (more)
Looks like Ingres is going to try to build its own stack, starting with a
database software appliance.
It's integrating the Ingres database with rPath Linux, calling the joint
development Project Icebreaker.
They're just using those pieces of the operating system necessary to the
database making the OS transparent.
rPath is the appliance start-up kicked off in January by former Red Hat VP of
engineering Erik Troan and former Red Hat VP, North American sales Billy
Marshall. rPath says its Linux will run most of the programs that run on Red
Hat and SUSE without modification. The sta... (more)
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