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Coming off of its own acquisition by VMware, SpringSource, a provider of Java application infrastructure and management software, has announced its acquisition of Cloud Foundry and a new SpringSource cloud offering based on the Cloud Foundry technology.
– Coming off of its own acquisition by VMware, SpringSource, a provider of Java application infrastructure and management software, has announced its acquisition of Cloud Foundry and a new SpringSource cloud offering based on the Cloud Foundry technology.
In an interview with eWEEK, Rod Johnson, CEO …

Last week I took the 20-minute BART ride from the East Bay over to Moscone West in San Francisco to visit what was once known as LinuxWorld and is now OpenSourceWorld, Next Generation Data Center, and CloudWorld all rolled into one event. Like many others, having been to previous LinuxWorlds, I was curious to see how this re-branding and grouping of events would pan out. LinuxWorld had been getting quite the panning (no pun intended) over the last five years or so, so could the new event cut the mustard and reel back in its once committed group of sightsee

Shipping data quickly using intermodal transport (van, jet, boat, etc) opens up pipelining of workflows across cloud providers, with real-time marketplace-based routing to the best providers.

Linux cluster vendor Penguin Computing has created a cloud computing environment aimed at the HPC space. Penguins POD service is built on the vendor’s Intel-powered Linux clusters, high-speed interconnect technologies like InfiniBand, NetApp SANs, Nvidia graphics chips and Penguins Scyld ClusterWare management software, all important technologies for highly parallel, memory-intensive HPC applications. Penguin also is not using virtualization technologies on its server clusters, which officials said will improve server and I/O performance.
– Penguin Computing is creating a cloud environment specifically for the high-performance computing space.
Penguin Aug. 11 announced its POD (Penguin on Demand) service that is aimed at researchers, scientists and businesses that need extra compute power for their HPC applications or organizations th…

Acquia has raised $15 million in funding and they’re putting it into dev for their next gen open source content management system. A key part of that is a new cloud based service powered by Drupal 7.

Another powerful trend that undercuts Microsoft is toward programs that look and function the same way in any operating system. "Over the past five years there’s been a steady move away from Windows-specific to applications being OS-neutral," says Michael Silver, a software analyst at the research firm Gartner.

Though Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed seemed to garner most of the headlines on Aug. 10, the bigger story for the enterprise was easily VMware’s announcement of its intent to acquire SpringSource for $362 million to bolster its cloud strategy against Microsoft and others.
– Though Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed seemed to garner most of the headlines on Aug. 10, the bigger story for the enterprise was easily VMware’s announcement of its intent to acquire SpringSource for $362 million to bolster its cloud strategy against Microsoft and others.
Make no mistake, tha…

VMware said Monday that it will pay US$420 million for privately held SpringSource in a bid to become a bigger player in cloud computing application management and the open source community.

Yahoo! is losing the founder of Hadoop, that increasingly popular open source grid platform based on Google’s proprietary software infrastructure. On September 1, after three and a half years with Yahoo!, Doug Cutting will join Cloudera, the commercial Hadoop startup that launched earlier this year. As reported by the New York Times, Cutting announced his departure from Yahoo! this morning at a company meeting.

Chromium developer Tim Steele has revealed that Google is working on a new cloud synchronisation function for its Chrome web browser. Chromium is the open source base on which Google’s WebKit-based Chrome web browser is built. In his post on the Chromium development message board, Steele says that the feature for syncing user data will be linked to a users Google account and that work is being started in the Chromium project this week.