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VMware Unveils Open Source PaaS Cloud Foundry
VMware has today announced the launch of an open source "Platform as a Service" (PaaS), Cloud Foundry.
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What is a Cloud?
A new discussion on focus.com “Is Facebook a cloud?” uncovers that there still is no agreement between practitioners on what a cloud really is.
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Microsoft releases Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7
On Mar 23, 2011, Microsoft announced the availability the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7. The toolkit, downloadable from CodePlex, installs as a Visual Studio 2010 extension, and is designed to make it easier for developers to build applications on Microsoft Windows Phone 7 devices that interact with Windows Azure.
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Cloud IDE for Java Launched by eXo
eXo has announced the launch of a new Cloud IDE, which is based on a hosted development environment that facilitates social coding, the collaborative development of gadgets and mashups that can be deployed directly to any Java PaaS. This includes multi-tenancy, social and collaboration features.
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Oracle's Java EE 7 Plans Include Adding Cloud and HTML5 Support to the Platform
Oracle filed the umbrella JSR for Java EE 7 last week, and the specification has now passed the initial review ballot stage. The overarching themes are emerging web technologies, cloud computing, and continued ease of use improvements including an overhaul to the JMS API. Elsewhere, JPA is scheduled to receive attention, and Oracle is talking about plans to revive the long dormant JCACHE JSR.
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IBM’s Reference Architecture for Creating Cloud Environments [Updated]
IBM has recently submitted the IBM Cloud Computing Reference Architecture 2.0 (CC RA) (.doc) to the Cloud Architecture Project of the Open Group, a document based on “real-world input from many cloud implementations across IBM” meant to provide guidelines for creating a cloud environment.Update: interview with Heather Kreger, one of the authors of Cloud Computing Reference Architecture.
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Rackspace Releases version 2.0 of Rackspace Cloud for iOS
Today, developers and system administrators may download Rackspace Cloud 2.0 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch from the Apple App Store. The new universal iOS application allows developers and admins to manage their Rackspace Cloud deployments as well as customize OpenStack Clouds.
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Microsoft Releases Windows Azure Platform SDK 1.4
Yesterday Microsoft released the Windows Azure SDK 1.4 for Visual Studio 2010. The release fixes several significant bugs including the nasty RDP bug and adds capabilities like multiple administrator support from the enhanced Windows Azure Connect portal.
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GigaSpaces Announces Upcoming Release of It's Second-Generation Cloud-Enablement Platform
GigaSpaces announced the launch of its Cloud-enabled Application Platform for Enterprise PaaS & ISV SaaS Enablement at CloudConnect on Monday, March 7. InfoQ caught up with the GigaSpaces team to take a closer look.
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NEC introduces a new Software Architecture for Unified Communications and Collaboration
NEC corporation has recently demonstrated its Unified Communications & Collaboration Platform software architecture (UC&C) for Rich Internet Applications and IT Architectures at the Enterprise Connect 2011 exhibition. The virtualized platform utilizes Rich Internet Applications to provide a collaboration solution for companies and their customers.
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A Load Balancing, Monitoring and AutoScaling Solution for Private Clouds Using AWS APIs
MomentumSI released today a set of services designed to provide the agility of Amazon cloud in their own datacenters, with APIs strictly compatible with AWS.
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MuleSoft Announces Next Generation Integration Platform-as-a-Service
A couple of weeks ago, MuleSoft announced the availability of its new Integration Platform as a Service: Mule iON. This iPaaS comes with a series of out-of-the-box connectors to integrate with SaaS solutions, Cloud services and social media platforms. Mule iON also provides a secure gateway to the enterprise to access these APIs and integration scenarios.
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Rackspace Load Balancers beta
Yesterday Josh Odom announced the beta release of Cloud Load Balancers for the Rackspace cloud computing stack. This release comes with their Fanatical Support and a documented API for implementation and management load balancing on their stack, Cloud Servers.
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Amazon AWS Launches CloudFormation
Today the Amazon AWS team launched a tool to simplify the provisioning and deployment of AWS resources using templates, AWS CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation is available via the AWS Management Console, command line tools and the APIs.
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Easier Deployment of Java Apps to Windows Azure
Microsoft has made available a kit for streamlining the process of deploying Java applications to Windows Azure.