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StackOps Distribution Offers an Introduction to OpenStack Cloud - Cloud Computing OpenStack is out to be the Linux of the cloud infrastructure world-the project, founded by NASA and Rackspace, is aimed at rounding up the various compute, storage and networking components that make up a public or private cloud into an open-source cloud operating system. Just as most people who use and deploy Linux rely on distributions to take care of the many packaging and configuration details required to get up and running, the OpenStack world will have its own distributions. I've been testing one such OpenStack distribution, called StackOps, which makes it rather easy to get up and running with a single-node OpenStack implementation, suitable for early testing and for familiarizing oneself with this fast-moving cloud computing project. StackOps consists of an Ubuntu Linux-based distribution, which, paired with a Web-based Smart Installer application, speeds the process of configuring and deploying OpenStack clouds.

balderton capital April 1st, 2014 BALDERTON CAPITAL raises $305m Series A venture fund to invest in European technology start-ups London, 1st April 2014 - Balderton Capital, one of Europe’s largest venture capital investors and behind breakthrough successes such as Betfair, Lovefilm, MySQL, NaturalMotion and Yoox, has announced the closing of its fifth European fund, raising a further $305 million and bringing its total funds to $2.2 billion to invest in European technology start-ups. Does OpenStack Change the Cloud Game? July 20, 2010 Randy Bias This week Rackspace Cloud, in conjunction with the NASA Nebula project, open sourced some of their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud software. This initiative, dubbed ‘OpenStack’, should have a dramatic impact on the current dynamics for building cloud computing infrastructure.

Jeff Clavier's Software Only Forbes released its third annual ‘30 Under 30‘ list of young disrupters, innovators and entrepreneurs – and we’re proud to see many of SoftTech’s founders represented again this year and joined by several our new rising stars. Meet our founders that made the list and a huge congratulations to Aaron, Xan, David, Alex, Sam, Liam, Tyler, San, and Rafael! Aaron Feuer, Xan Tanner, David Carel (22, 22, 23), Cofounders, {*style:<a href=' Education{*style:</a>*} ({*style:<a href=' ’30 Under 30′ Education{*style:</a>*}) {*style:<a href=' Yale grads (from left: Feuer, Tanner, Carel) saw their company become one of the most talked about ed tech startups of the year when it announced $4 million in seeding funding from Mark Zuckerberg’s Startup: Education, among others, in October. Panorama is specifically designed for K-12 schools to help them find data-driven solutions by collecting and analyzing feedback from teachers, parents, students and staff.

The Red Ocean of Cloud Infrastructure Stacks (updated) Update: am revising this still… Reposting now – but send me your comments via @CloudBzz on Twitter if you have them. It seems like every day there’s a new company touting their infrastructure stack. I’m sure I’m missing some, but I show more than 30 solutions for building clouds below, and I am sure that more are on their way. The market certainly can’t support so many participants! Not for very long anyway. This is the definition of a “red ocean” situation — lots of noise, and lots of blood in the water.

Commodity Clouds for the Enterprise–Inside the Economics Recently at the Cloud Connect event in San Jose, Randy Bias, co-founder of cloud builder Cloudscaling gave a fascinating talk which sought to dispel many of the myths around enterprise cloud computing. Bias’ talk is an excellent way to spend ten minutes – I’d recommend watching it below. Cloudscaling is an organization that has been building some of the worlds biggest clouds and it was great to have someone peel back some of the covers around the economics involved with that. I caught up with Bias last week and took a very deep dive into some (unfortunately private) information that he uses to differentiate between “traditional enterprise clouds” and the commodity clouds that Cloudscaling has been building customers.

QuickStudy: Cloud computing Ask any five IT specialists what cloud computing is, and you're likely to get five different answers. That's partly because cloud computing is merely the latest, broadest development in a trend that's been growing for years. Cloud computing is the most recent successor to grid computing, utility computing, virtualization and clustering. Cloud computing overlaps those concepts but has its own meaning: the ability to connect to software and data on the Internet (the cloud) instead of on your hard drive or local network. To do anything with a PC 10 years ago, you needed to buy and install software. Now, cloud computing allows users to access programs and resources across the Internet as if they were on their own machines.

Five open source tools for building and managing clouds Open source technology is going to seriously impact the cloud computing world, and there are two main reasons why: Open source software is essentially free, and it is not generally encumbered by the software license models of proprietary software. Many proprietary software vendors, such as Microsoft and Oracle, are trying to maintain old and expensive license models, even though they impede the flexibility gained by virtualization and cloud computing. Proprietary tools for building and managing clouds are no further along than their open source counterparts, and the open source tools are free.Bill Claybrook

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