OpenStack gains momentum as vendors give Grizzly a bear hug

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	OpenStack gains momentum as vendors give Grizzly a bear hug Enterprise companies and startups alike continue to throw their support behind the open source cloud platform OpenStack, evidenced by the slew of announcements coming out of this week's OpenStack Grizzly Summit in Portland, Ore. Among companies touting their latest OpenStack endeavors today are CloudBase, CloudByte, CloudScaling, Hewlett-Packard, Midokura, NetApp, and Piston Cloud Computing. Read More WHITE PAPER: Falconstor Software RecoverTrac Demo: Failback in a Multi-server Environment RecoverTrac technology orchestrates the failback and recovery of resources in a simplified, automated fashion. Watch how RecoverTrac enables failback from virtual resources at a disaster recovery site to physical servers, and from one set of hardware to another, restoring services at the data center.t Learn More In this Issue Final arrangements: Hitting the digital dead man's switch Report: Microsoft may also make smart watches Rackspace to offer OpenStack deployments for service providers FAA says hijack-a-jet app works only on simulator Google's wearable computer faces bans even before Glass goes on sale WHITE PAPER: Riverbed The CIO's Guide to Optimizing Virtual Desktops Read this white paper to learn how Riverbed solutions can help you realize the full benefits of desktop virtualization. Read More Final arrangements: Hitting the digital dead man's switch The one part of our lives online that we need to do a lot more thinking about is our deaths online. Right now, when someone dies, the fate of their digital life -- their online accounts, their virtual possessions -- typically is left up in the air to the discretion of his survivors (assuming there are any). Read More Report: Microsoft may also make smart watches Microsoft is working on designs for a touch-enabled smart watch, joining a number of other large competitors like Samsung Electronics and Apple who are said to be working on similar devices, a newspaper reported. Executives at suppliers to Microsoft told The Wall Street Journal that the company was sourcing components for the prototype of what could potentially be a "watch-style device." Read More Rackspace to offer OpenStack deployments for service providers Expanding beyond its own OpenStack hosted services, Rackspace is offering to build OpenStack deployments for other hosting providers as well, such as telecommunication companies. "We're getting into the business of helping large service providers become cloud providers," said Scott Sanchez, Rackspace's director of strategy. "We're taking all of our accumulated knowledge around how to be a successful cloud provider and we're delivering that to service providers around the world." Read More FAA says hijack-a-jet app works only on simulator When a security researcher announced last week to great media fanfare that he'd written an Android app that allowed him to hijack a jet with his Samsung Galaxy smartphone, he acknowledged an important caveat to his exploit: It had been tested only on a simulator. Read More Google's wearable computer faces bans even before Glass goes on sale Waltzing into a Las Vegas casino wearing Google Glass could be a risky proposition if staffers suspect you're using the wearable computer to surreptitiously shoot videos or photos. Read More
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