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Red Hat announces PaaS strategy and roadmap
Open source solutions provider Red Hat announced its platform-as-a-service strategy OpenShift, an open cloud application platform that is said to provide a consistent environment for both public cloud and on-premise data center usage.
by: Asia Cloud Forum editors 10-May-2012

Welcome to cloud reality

In Asia Pacific we're seeing a growing realization amongst the enterprise community that cloud computing has even greater business potential. Organizations like NTT Communications are actively demonstrating that cloud computing can be a powerful strategic force to enhance its competitiveness.
by: Damien Wong, Red Hat 02-May-2012

5 steps to introduce private cloud to your existing infrastructure

There's no single approach to "properly" adopt a cloud computing. It's more important to establish some deliberate process than it is to follow a particular one. This article outlines a 5-step approach to embark the first phase of private cloud adoption "Cut through the cloud clutter."
by: Damien Wong, Red Hat Asia Pacific 06-Jan-2012
Red Hat to acquire Gluster for open source storage
Gluster's speciality is simplifying storage using open source software and commodity hardware. Its GlusterFS is a software-only, scale-out storage system. It allows enterprises to combine large numbers of commodity storage and compute resources into a high-performance, centrally-managed and globally-accessible storage pool.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 02-Nov-2011
How to build a turnkey private and hybrid cloud
Companies skeptics about public cloud are opting to deploy private and/or hybrid cloud solutions which provides them the benefits of a public cloud while keeping their infrastructure under their leading to dramatic cost and time savings.
by: Garima Thockchom, CIO US 18-Sep-2011

Open cloud frees vendor lock-in, levels playing field

An open cloud provides the interoperability that frees companies from being locked in to a single cloud vendor. This allows companies to select the vendor whose SLA matches most with their requirements.
by: Carol Ko 30-Jun-2011
Italian hosting company launched open source cloud offerings
Dnshosting.it migrates to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization from VMware to become part of the open source community that uses Kernel-based virtual machine, which is also expected to gain added flexibility and interoperability for its cloud deployments.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 10-Jun-2011
Open Virtualization Alliance formed by 7-member consortium
BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Red Hat and SUSE today form the Open Virtualization Alliance to foster the adoption of open virtualization technologies, including Kernel-based Virtual Machine.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 18-May-2011
BMC Software and Red Hat co-offer hybrid cloud service
The two companies announce to co-deliver a hybrid cloud architecture, which will be delivered as an integrated platform that will include the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 05-May-2011

Wisconsin-Madison Uni supports scientific computing on cloud

The University of Wisconsin-Madison co-established The Center for High Throughput Computing with Red Hat to co-develop the Condor technologies for enterprise use. The university has been using Condor technologies to support a broad range of scientific computing projects and organizations.
by: Asia Cloud Forum staff 05-May-2011