This morning Citrix announced its acquisition of Cloud.com , a company that sells virtualization infrastructure for building private clouds. Cloud.com brings with it a number of high profile customers such as Bechtel, GoDaddy, Tata Communications and Zynga. The announcement follows Citrix’s announcement of its private cloud infrastructure play called Project Olympus , which is based on OpenStack.
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Citrix Buys Private Cloud Vendor Cloud.com
A new ebook to help users of Rackspace setup and manage their cloud-based servers is out this week. Called Managing Rackspace Cloud Servers and written by Jacek Artymiak, it is a very practical and useful guide, and seems to be unique. Sponsor The 75 page book teaches you how to use the openstack-compute Python-based tool to manage server farms built on top of the Rackspace Cloud Servers service
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How to Manage Rackspace Cloud Servers
Yesterday former Google Wave engineer Dhanji R. Prasanna wrote on his blog about why he is leaving the company. It’s an interesting look at Google’s company culture, but there’s also an interesting technical nugget in there.
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Ex-Google Engineer Says the Company’s Software Infrastructure is Obsolete
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