Eucalyptus, Terracotta partner for private clouds Posted on February 9, 2010 by Jennifer Kavur 09 Feb 2010, ComputerWorld Canada The new partnership will combine Terracotta’s scalable infrastructure software with Eucalyptus Systems’ open source private cloud platform to solve issues related to scalable data management and elastic provisioning.
Like Firefox? Try Thunderbird 3 Posted on December 10, 2009 by Jennifer Kavur 10 Dec 2009, ComputerWorld Canada Thunderbird 3 literally borrows the best ideas from Firefox and applies them to e-mail, says Mozilla Messaging CEO in a one-on-one with ComputerWorld Canada. What gives Mozilla’s free, open source and cross-platform e-mail application an edge over Outlook.
XenServer: Free and (almost) open source Posted on November 16, 2009 by Jennifer Kavur 16 Nov 2009, ComputerWorld Canada Citrix CTO Simon Crosby talks about the free virtualization platform XenServer, which is the basis for the new Xen Cloud Platform. Why charging per server and not CPU cuts costs for enterprises.
Eucalyptus CTO discusses open source clouds Posted on September 10, 2009 by Jennifer Kavur 10 Sep 2009, ComputerWorld Canada Rich Wolski, UCSB professor and CTO of recently-established Eucalyptus Systems, discusses the company’s first commercial product for the enterprise – an open source private cloud platform that supports Amazon AWS APIs and leverages VMware. — reprinted by ComputerworldUK.com, Eucalyptus CTO discusses open source private clouds
Vancouver becomes role model for open source in government Posted on June 7, 2009 by Jennifer Kavur 07 Jun 2009, ComputerWorld Canada Open source activists are praising the Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source motion passed by the City of Vancouver last month. City Councillor Andrea Reimer provides an update on what to expect next.
Google in Canada: The biggest Chrome challenges Posted on October 29, 2008 by Jennifer Kavur 29 Oct 2008, ComputerWorld Canada IT departments aren’t providing feedback. Users are leery about sharing statistics. Developers need to get on board. Google’s mobile engineering manager addresses CASCON 2008.