Open Source Journal

Download our iPhone app New: Download the This Week in Cloud iPhone app. Now it’s even easier to get your weekly cloud news and perspectives. Cloud News Google is reportedly close to introducing a cloud-storage service called Drive, which will be similar to Dropbox. This PC World article points out that the service offering could potentially turn Google partners into rivals. Are telcos poised to disrupt Amazon’s enterprise cloud? This Information Week article makes the case that they are, citing speakers from the Cloud Carrier Forum held at the Cloud Connect conference. One point consistently made at the conference: “not only do the carriers already own the networks across which all cloud-based data and content is already trafficked, they have a decades-old and relatively bulletproof track record in delivering secure and highly available services.†Uptime Software ... (more)

Why 6fusion’s Cloud Resource Meter Launch Matters

By the time this blog post hits the airwaves, 6fusion will have launched it’s second major software product in the first 45 days of 2012. For those of you that run start up software companies, you know what kind of pace it means. To be perfectly transparent, things are, well, nucking futs inside our little company. The product we launched simultaneously at VMworld Partner Exchange in Las Vegas and Cloud Connect in Santa Clara is called 6fusion Cloud Resource Meter (for VMware vSphere) – more on the vSphere part later. I wanted to take a few written words to explain a few things a... (more)

New Monitis MySQL Monitoring Tool’s Video

MySQL is the world’s most popular open-source database and platform for millions of web applications – it’s critical but cumbersome to monitor. Monitis’ MySQL monitoring provides three key benefits: Insight » 246 potential monitoring variables » 21 aggregated, percentage-based metrics » Adjustable thresholds to separate real issues from false alarms Control » Monitor entire IT universe from one dashboard » Quick diagnosis & root cause detection Simplicity » Cloud-based means no need to install, update or maintain it » Leaves you time to focus on more important things For a FREE trial,... (more)

Hadoop and Business Intelligence

Like my colleague Alex Olesker, I too attended Cloudera Day 2012.  While there were many panels of interest, perhaps one of the most important was Amr Awadallah‘s talk about big data applications to business intelligence. Many CTOVision readers with backgrounds in the intelligence community may think of corporate espionage when the phrase “business intelligence†is uttered, but I assure you that this is definitely not the case. Business intelligence is different from competitive intelligence, which is primarily based on open-source analysis of competitors and markets. Rather, bus... (more)

Swisscom Floats Red Hat Cloud

Swisscom, the Swiss telecom, is going into the cloud business. Its subsidiary Swisscom IT Services AG has signed up with Red Hat as a Certified Cloud Provider and launched a public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud targeting enterprise-class customers primarily in the Swiss market. It's offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux by the hour or year for virtual machine consumption on the IaaS cloud. Swisscom just posted its first quarterly loss in 10 years, losing $911 million largely because of a write-down in its Italian fixed-line unit impacted by the Italian debt crisis.... (more)