April 18, 2013
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No, it’s not your imagination. You have been hearing more and more about OpenStack in recent weeks and you’re only going to be hearing a lot more as time goes by. First, for those of you who haven’t met … Continue reading
April 4, 2013
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If you like open source in your cloud, you have to be happy that the OpenStack Foundation has just released the latest version of its popular open-source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud, Grizzly. OpenStack, the so-called Linux of … Continue reading
April 4, 2013
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Intuit, makers of Quicken and QuickBooks, is making its popular online personal finance service Mint available to financial institutions. As Ron Shevlin, senior analyst at Aite Group, told American Banker, “I’m surprised it took so long“. Indeed, you could see this … Continue reading
March 29, 2013
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Google’s Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge, in which Google promises “not to sue any user, distributor, or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first ‘attacked”, sounds good. Indeed, it is good. But this is far from the first … Continue reading
March 29, 2013
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Where there is the cloud, confusion all too often follows. That’s no great surprise. Ever since cloud computing started to become popular, cloud-washing — the pasting of the word cloud on any old software — has become popular too. … Continue reading
March 12, 2013
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Some people are still stuck in the idea that the cloud is just so much vapor. While they’re still sneering at the very idea of a cloud, others have moved on to the next logical step: That cloud-based computing will … Continue reading