There’s a real explosion of cloud platforms and management tools, it seems you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one these days. In the commercial proprietary solutions space you have – CA’s 3Terra AppLogic, Enomaly, Nimbula, RightScale. In open source there are Eucalyptus, Cloud.com, Open Nebula and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. There are a bunch more [...]
Today I caught a tweet from Kara Swisher referencing some exclusive news she posted on Boomtown about VMware’s upcoming deal to buy Zimbra from Yahoo! This is would be VMware’s second acquisition of an open source ISV in under a year. In August 2009 VMware acquired open source java vendor SpringSource that not only developed [...]
SWsoft announced that in 2008 it will adopt "Parallels" as its new corporate name. They also announced a new unified computing vision. SWsoft is probably best none for their Plesk hosting control panel. SWsoft also has seen great success with their Parallels virtualization solution especially with the recent popularity of Mac OS. Parallels has been [...]
