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Developers working with OpenStack now have a Sandbox and a separate one-stop shop for the OpenStack APIs. The API site is "inspired by" sites like Twitter's API resource page, and

BitNami announced today that they're going to be offering ready-to-run images of popular open source stacks for a wider range of public and private clouds. Previously, BitNami's cloud images were

Red Hat has been involved with OpenStack development for some time. Unlike the bulk of companies involved, however, Red Hat has gone about its work quietly and without "officially" joining

Word is that Red Hat refused to sign on to OpenStack when it was announced, because it didn't like the governance model. Red Hat also has its own cloud management

Microsoft announced it had partnered with Cloud.com to support Hyper-V with OpenStack in October 2010. This was not long after the land-rush of companies clamoring to announce their support for

To abuse the cloud metaphor, there's a storm brewing over public and private clouds. Not surprisingly, providers of public clouds (who hope to see everybody move their computing to public

Today we've got links to presentations and slides from Hadoop World 2011, tutorials on scripting KVM with Python, a library for working with AWS services using Node.js and more. Hadoop

The OpenStack community is getting ready for a bug-squashing day, BitNami has Windows AMIs that qualify for Amazon's free usage tier and Christopher Miles has an interesting post on working

Today's links include some thoughts from Bruce Schneier on surveillance, the latest update from OpenStack on community work and a post from Neelie Kroes (vice president of the European Commission)

One of the nice things about following cloud technologies and virtualization? It's never boring, especially given how new cloud technologies are. That means that there's plenty of room for change,

The main functions for services like Dropbox and Box.net are simple sharing and, to a limited degree, collaboration. Multiple parties can share access to a cloud-based storage device that's easier

OpenStack release manager Thierry Carrez examines OpenStack Nova's current privilege model and how it's being improved with the root_helper option. Right now, OpenStack uses sudo to escalate privileges when it

Eucalyptus was once "the" open source cloud computing project. It was the core of Ubuntu's cloud strategy, and more or less the only game in town. Unfortunately, it was not

If customers won't come to Rackspace, then Rackspace will simply have to go to the customers. Rackspace announced today that it's going to be offering a "private edition" of OpenStack

The big story in the open source cloud these days is OpenStack. Rackspace's baby is sucking all the oxygen out of the room when it comes to attention, but what

This week, SUSE announced that it had joined OpenStack and today the company announced a development preview of SUSE Cloud which is powered by OpenStack. With the green team at

Last March, a new company called Gemini Mobile Technologies initiated an innovative, cloud-hosted database platform service, where objects are stored in Gemini's cloud and customers pay only for the space

OpenStack is going to be taking another major step in open governance next year. According to Rackspace, the time has come to form an OpenStack Foundation. Rackspace president Lew Moorman

Just in the last year, we've seen a rapid rise in adoption of open source scale-out software - a category that enables enterprises to pool together whatever resources they have,

Opscode is releasing new Cookbooks for rapid deployment and automation of OpenStack clouds. The new Cookbooks work with OpenStack's five core projects, including the new identity and dashboard projects announced

The space program is not entirely about space, and never was. It's about learning about how to solve problems. First, you change your perspective about what those problems are. From

Ubuntu 11.10 is approaching, and the second beta is bringing a couple of cloud-related features that bear watching. Codenamed Oneiric Ocelot, the next release of Ubuntu Server will include Orchestra,

The OpenStack Project is moving a bit closer to its proprietary competition with the Diablo release, out today. In addition to improving the three core projects, OpenStack is now adding

Today HP announced a private beta program for its Cloud Compute and Cloud Object Storage services based on Open Stack. This is their first implementation, and follows on their

Citrix is moving fast since acquiring Cloud.com in July. After less than two months with Cloud.com, Citrix has decided to bet heavy on the open cloud by merging all code