The Open Cloud Initiative is also engaging governmental agencies in dialog to identify immediate uses for cloud technologies.
Rackspace also said it is installing a tiered pricing system for its open cloud products, starting with its Cloud files object storage service.
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The Linux Foundation provides a neutral environment where work on Linux, mobile and embedded development, open cloud, and more can be accelerated and advanced.
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The WEF Open Cloud Initiative is observing projects like ULAP and refining their approach to advocacy and fundraising as governments and the private sector make their priorities known.
Unlike other cloud gaming platforms, Agawi CloudPlay is a flexible, white-label B2B solution that can be deployed on an open cloud environment, eliminating the need to build proprietary data centers.
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The company has long been a contributor to the Linux and open source software communities and is well known for its work on open operating systems as well as the open cloud.
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Open Cloud Visionaries is a series of articles about how IT can navigate the transition to expanded use of cloud resources in a way that meets business requirements, avoids restrictive lock in, and expands choice.
The second reason for building the open cloud centers around the same motivators that bring enterprises to the cloud in the first place: cost efficiency, range of service delivery options, reduced overhead and better asset utilization.
Some vendors, such as Red Hat and Rackspace, are consciously positioning themselves as advocates of an open cloud built around open source, and foresee great benefits accruing to the enterprises that can charge into the cloud without being locked in to a particular vendor, particularly when it comes to cloud infrastructure.
The 22-person firm, which sells software for integrating and divvying up the servers of computers used by cloud computing services, is pushing an initiative it calls "Open Cloud, " a cloud computing standard that would allow a company's IT systems to be shared between different cloud computing services and moved freely between them.
The battle between competing cloud-computing standards has caused a rupture in the open-cloud movement.
Designed around an open, cloud-based architecture to provide high availability, scalability and secure multi-tenancy.
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Open Stack cloud services company, SoftLayer, seems to be doing the acquisition dance with a couple of suitors at the moment.
In the battle for who will become the most used open source cloud platform CloudStack has just hit a major milestone.
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Crenshaw applauds the enthusiasm for open source, but, as it did with Linux, Red Hat believes there is a significant demand for a more robust open-cloud offering.
As our enterprise customers move to open, hybrid cloud architectures, we are addressing their needs with a clear roadmap based on industry-leading open source technologies.
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To date, OpenStack has 130 participating companies to develop to open standards for cloud software and services.
Its challenge is to provide open-source cloud software that is functional enough that no one will actually want to replace it.
It covers activities such as the creation, retrieval and deletion of data elements from the cloud and is an open standard for self-provisioning and accessing cloud storage.
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The company just announced Cloud Foundry, an open source system in which developers can build applications for cloud computing, without having to work in specific underlying technologies.
When we open-sourced our cloud technology, a lot of people thought we were crazy.
Open software in the cloud would translate to a near-term decline in sales, support, consulting and upgrades.
The OpenStack Foundation and the Open Compute Project is a community of 150 companies committed to building cloud architecture based upon open source software and open hardware standards.
Citrix, one of the primary cloud vendors, has discontinued contributing software projects to OpenStack, the open-source software foundation for cloud development, of which it had been one of the founding partners.
So the first entropic principle at play is that Creative Cloud aims to open additional, complementary skill-sets for its users.
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However, to me, Openness (and with it Broader adoption, private, hybrid of Public) about the Cloud starts with open Standards for APIs, reference architecture and hardware (Open Compute is a good example of that).
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He believes the next 24 months will be crucial in determining if the cloud becomes an open area in which most of the value goes to customers or a closed shop where the vendors reap most of the benefit.
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New tools now appearing in the market are cloud-based, open, efficient and easy to use.
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Governments are finally becoming aware of the implications of combining cloud computing practices with open source initiatives for their citizenry.
Farther down the hall, Open Kernel and CohesiveFT, a cloud-computing firm run by Patrick Kerpan, ex-CTO of software icon Borland, run larger operations.
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