A CDN-Style Service for APIs A content delivery network (CDN) is fine for distributing the data from a Web page but the advent of a new programming interface will help create a new method for pushing data to the edge of the network. The first signs of this new network is coming from companies that are creating a new wave of API services for better distributing the billions of calls that are made daily to an increasing mass network of providers. The latest is a new API Delivery Network from Apigee, a provider of API products and services. Apigee is providing a new way to distribute APIs from a central point to the edge of the network. It's like a CDN except not for content but for API calls.
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Using Nimble.com to Unify Your Social Network Contacts If you are looking to bring some sense to your social networking life, take a closer look at the free tool from Nimble.com. (We last spoke to Nimble's CEO Jon Ferrara here.) Nimble imports your contacts from Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook and brings them together in new and interesting ways. Once you activate your account, you grant the service access by providing your user name and passwords to your social networks. It takes a few minutes to do the imports and Nimble will send you an email when everything is finished.
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Run Hypervisors on Bare Metal Thanks to MokaFive Today MokaFive announced the release BareMetal, a new hypervisor that runs on, well, bare metal. That is, BareMetal serves as both host OS and hypervisor. It requires only 2GB of RAM and a 64-bit CPU. This approach has two main benefits: 1) Every machine in the BareMetal fleet can be managed from a single console since the host OS has been cut out. 2) Powerful virtual machines can be run from lower end equipment.
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Cloudshare Makes VM Testing a Snap One of the better cloud computing bargains can be found at
Cloudshare.com. For a reasonable price, corporate IT departments can have up to six individual virtual machines (VMs) in their own private cloud. That is a deal, and makes the pain of software testing a lot more bearable.
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Citrix Acquires VDI-in-a-Box Vendor Kaviza Citrix announced yesterday at its annual Synergy user conference that it has acquired Kaviza, makers of the VDI-in-a-box SMB solution. The announcement gives a boost to both companies, primarily because the dearth of these sorts of solutions are just one of many reasons why VDI implementations aren't a slam dunk, as Alex Williams has written for us here previously.
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PaaS Consolidation: DotCloud Buys DuoStack Consolidation has been one of the main trends of 2011. In December of last year, Salesforce.com acquired Ruby PaaS Heroku and, Hat acquired Java PaaS Makara and CloudBees acquired Stax Networks. That lead to much speculation about the future of PaaS consolidation. But the real consolidation action in 2011 has been in telcos acquiring infrastructure-as-a-service companies. Meanwhile companies like VMware have decided to build instead of buy PaaS companies. Today GigaOm's Derrick Harris broke the news that dotCloud is acquiring DuoStack. It seems that this sort of acquisition is a long time coming.
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Remotely Connecting to Your Cloud Getting your cloud-based servers set up with data and applications usually involves making some sort of remote connection to move content from your enterprise network or desktop to the virtual instance of your server. I will show you four different ways to connect to your collection of virtual servers in the cloud. Not every cloud provider supports each method.
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Amazon Launches Oracle in the Cloud Amazon has added Oracle to its lineup of Web-based database services in the cloud. Starting today, you can bring up Standard, Standard One or Enterprise Editions of Oracle 11g Release 2 databases, with a variety of licensing and pricing options. This is the first time that you can have a cloud-based fully licensed Oracle database.
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Rackspace and Citrix: Virtualization for Smartphones and Tablets Rackspace is offering a hosted desktop virtualization service with Citrix that provides a way to virtualize all those tablets and smartphones that people are bringing to work. It also takes the burden off the enterprise, which is having considerable difficulty figuring out how to bring together the multiple parties that are needed to offer a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution. As we noted in a recent post on the topic of virtual desktop infrastructure, it requires the desktop, storage, network, virtualization and data center teams to work together.
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New Hybrid Cloud Management Service From Novell Novell has a new version 5 of its Operations Center hybrid cloud management software.
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Here is How Microsoft Will Win in the Cloud A recent story in Network World shows one way that Microsoft will make future wins over to its cloud-based Office offerings, now called Office 365 and still in beta: with favorable enterprise pricing for Exchange Online.
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The War on Sharing [Infographic] The war that the record labels is waging to protect its copyrighted music is mistakenly believed to only concern services that explicitly allow you to share music. That's not so true anymore. The RIAA is broadening its scope. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Its new targets are services such as Box.net, the subject of a subpoena this week in California, served by the RIAA's vice president of online piracy, Mark McDevitt. The RIAA seeks information about people it believes are using Box to illegally use "sound recordings." In a prepared statement, Box.net said to The Hollywood Reporter:
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Poll: Does Cloud Computing Change the Role of the CIO? The software companies that have risen to power in the past 40 years are talking more about the cloud. That has to be a factor of the business market and the interest on behalf of top IT executives, the ones who have in large part commanded the budgets for large-scale solutions projects. According to a study by IBM, 60% of Global CIOs are now preparing to invest in cloud computing, double the number of two years ago when IBM last did the study.
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Forrester Wave on PaaS Puts Microsoft and Salesforce.com at the Head of the Pack Forrester has released its Wave report on platform-as-a-service providers for 2011. It looks at how these providers serve two different types of user: professional developers and business developers. By professional developers, Forrester means those that we usually think of as developers: those who actually know programming languages and write code. By business developers, Forrester means business experts who use visual programming tools to snap together applications from existing components.
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New Data Center, Patents Shed Light on Apple's Cloud Ambitions Apple's huge new data center in North Carolina is getting a little brother. According to Data Center Knowledge, Apple is building a new data center in Santa Clara, CA. Data Center Knowledge reports that "Apple signed a seven-year lease for 2.28 megawatts of critical power load in a new data center being built in Santa Clara, Calif. by DuPont Fabros Technology." However, DuPont has not actually disclosed the name of the leaser. Data Center Knowledge reports that "multiple industry sources have since confirmed that the tenant is Apple." The North Carolina data center has been under construction for the past couple years, and has fueled speculation about Apple's cloud intentions. Earlier today, Patently Apple reported new filings by Apple that seem to confirm the company's cloud media ambitions. So the revelation of the new facility is timely indeed.
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