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Discussion on the state of cloud computing and open source software that helps build, manage, and deliver infrastructure-as-a-service.
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Kevin
Kevin is the Vice President of Products at Citrix managing the team of engineers who are working on the CloudStack open source IaaS platform. Previously he was the VP of Engineering at cloud.com, where he lead all the product development of all their cloud computing products. Prior to joining cloud.com, Kevin was vice president of Engineering for Zimbra (acquired by Yahoo!), where he helped establish the company as the leader in open source collaboration and email solutions. Kevin has also held senior engineering positions at Corvigo (acquired by Tumbleweed), Onebox.com (acquired by Phone.com), Portola Communications (acquired by Netscape), and Sun Microsystems. Kevin has a BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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CloudStack Process Changes: Working the Apache Way
Recently, Citrix announced that it will donate CloudStack to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). This is a very exciting moment in the history of the CloudStack project. The ASF is the premier open source foundation in the world and it has a track record of successful, completely open projects. The CloudStack project has been increasingly open ...Apr 17 -
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Sheng
Sheng is the CEO and founder of Cloud.com, where he drives the vision and overall direction for the company as it transforms the way business can harness the power of their own cloud. Sheng is a recognized expert in virtualization technologies as the lead developer on the original Java Virtual Machine team at Sun Microsystems. Sheng was co-founder and CTO of Teros (acquired by Citrix), a leader in perimeter and network security solutions for enterprises and service providers. Sheng has also held technology leadership roles at SEVEN Networks and Openwave systems where he developed software products for leading service providers and operators around the globe.
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CloudStack and Hadoop: a Match Made in the Cloud
Today Citrix announced that CloudStack would become the cloud platform project in Apache Software Foundation. I’m excited not just because CloudStack will be an incredibly vibrant and successful project by itself, I also believe there is a tremendous amount of synergy between CloudStack and other cloud-related projects in Apache Software Foundation ...Apr 03 -
Citrix Acquires Cloud.com
Today we announced that Cloud.com had joined forces with Citrix. This is not only a great day for Cloud.com investors, all of us at Cloud.com are also extremely excited to become Citrix employees. Cloud.com has a long history working with Citrix. We have supported various versions of Xen hypervisor since our 1.0 release in Nov 2009. Some of ou ...Jul 11 -
Cloud.com turns one today!
This month cloud.com celebrates its first birthday since we came out of stealth mode last year; and we have a lot to be excited about these days. It’s hard to believe how far we have come. Will, Alex, Shannon, Chiradeep and I started VMops (now cloud.com) back in 2008 and launched our first product in 2010. We were 5 guys who had an idea and we be ...May 03 -
The Road to Private Clouds will be through the Public Cloud
The past week marks a significant milestone in our industry. Cloud service provider Rackspace Hosting (RAX) market capitalization exceeded $5B. This represents financial market’s recognition of Rackspace as a leader in cloud computing. At Cloud.com we are... ...Feb 12 -
Why Cloud.com Joined the OpenStack Initiative
Today Rackspace and the Nebula team at NASA announced OpenStack.org, an Open Source initiative designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and interoperability in the cloud computing market. It received support from... ...Jul 19 -
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Microsoft Partners with Cloud.com on OpenStack
As many of you already know, we have been working closely with the OpenStack team and their efforts to rid the cloud ecosystem of lock-in and proprietary systems. Yesterday was an enormous milestone with the release of "Austin" and we are... ...Oct 22 -
Managing a Secure Multi-Tenant Cloud Environment with NetApp and Cloud.com
Last week at VMworld 2010 we demonstrated how customers can leverage the innovation of Cloud.com CloudStack integrated on a NetApp, Cisco and VMware cloud environment. The whole SMTC project at NetApp is an aggressive push to address one of the main inhibitors of cloud computing in the enterprise and it is clear they... ...Sep 08 -
Why Collaboration and Co-opetition Are Both Important and Healthy In Open Source
I’ve been called a lot of things during my career, but this is the first time I have ever been called a turkey. Interesting opinion on our efforts to support OpenStack from the guys over at The Virtualization Practice. When we made the decision to join OpenStack, we understood... ...Aug 09 -
Some Favorites From OSCON 2010
I was up in Portland last week for OSCON where I had a chance to mix and mingle with some of the greatest minds and efforts around open source and cloud computing. If you haven't had a chance to check out the videos, here are a couple of my favorites that were posted over the weekend. ...Jul 26 -
You Are Now Free to Move About in the Cloud
It's been an exciting week at OSCON this week with all of the announcements and initiatives around open source and cloud computing. On the tails of the successful launch of OpenStack Initiative, the Rackspace guys offered me the chance to discuss some of the things that Cloud.com... ...Jul 22 -
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The Cost of a Big Software Ecosystem
There was a great article yesterday about VMware by Juergen Urbanski on Gigaom that talked about the new VMware vSphere rollout. The most interesting thing Mr. Urbanski, who is an analyst at TechAlpha, noted was the cost of leveraging the VMware ecosystem, if you... ...Apr 23 -
Rooting for the Cloud Security Alliance
This week marks the first meeting and launch of the Cloud Security Alliance, and I imagine it will be a welcome arrival for everyone who is interested in the long-term growth of cloud computing.These industry groups often get written off for too much talk and too little action, but in the case of security, I think... ...Apr 20 -
Enterprise Systems Journal: Q&A on Building Private Clouds
Recently, the Enterprise Systems Journal did an extensive interview with VMOps CEO Sheng Liang on the opportunity for enterprise IT departments to leverage cloud platforms to build private clouds.I wanted to reprint one question, because it is a common... ...Feb 11 -
Replay - Building a Computing Cloud Webinar
The Web Host Industry Review recently hosted a webinar with Cloud.com and one of our customers ReliaCloud on how service providers could deploy a computing cloud using the CloudStack. We've made a replay of the webinar available here for you to review. Feel free to send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You ...Feb 10 -
Cloud.com Webinar: "Build Your Own Cloud" January 21st
January 21st, Cloud.com is hosting a webinar with The WHIR on how to turn your hosting company into a cloud computing provider.Cloud computing is changing everything about the hosting industry, and if you aren’t adapting to this reality, your business is at risk. Recently, the largest computing clouds have been adding hundreds of new physical serve ...Jan 05 -
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mrhinkle
Checking out code.nasa.gov neat list of OSS projects from the "astronauts"
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CloudStack Building “Communities of Inclusion” with Apache
When CloudStack was launched as an open source project back in 2010 our goal was to make CloudStack the leading open source cloud computing platform and to enable our users, partners, and customers to easily use, modify, and contribute to the project. We chose to license the project under the GNU Public License v3 (GPLv3) then. The reasoning was t ...Apr 02 -
Presentations Online from Virtual Build a Cloud Day Event
On February 28th and 29th we held a Virtual Build a Cloud Day event to educate users on how to combine open source software into an infrastructure-as-a-service cloud. We know that not everyone could attend all the great talks so we have made the recordings and presentations available for viewing at your leisure. All video broadcasts and sli ...Mar 09 -
Networking-as-a-Service in CloudStack 3.0
One of the most powerful but lesser known features of CloudStack is it's ability to integrate with networking devices like F5 and NetScaler loadbalancers. With CloudStack 3.0 you can deploy NetScaler with core Load Balancing rules. The core protocols like TCP, HTTP and UDP are supported and you can use the load balancing algorithms like Round Rob ...Feb 18 -
Xen Hackathon March 6-8
For those of you that are Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) users and are in Silicon Valley the CloudStack community team and some of our developers will be attending the Xen Hackathon at Oracle in Silicon Valley on March 6th-8th. If you want to help make Xen Cloud Platform a better hypervisor for your cloud come on in the XCP project lead Mike McClurg will ...Feb 18 -
Virtual Build a Cloud Day 2/28 & 2/29
On February 28th and 29th we'll be holding a two day session focusing on the open source technologies you can use to build, manage and deploy an open source cloud compute environment as well as DevOps presentation on operational methodologies for managing "cloudy" infrastructure. The program will feature speakers from CloudStack, Citrix, Xen.org, ...Feb 17 -
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