With a little more than a month to go ahead of Google I/O, the Internet giant is sprucing up Compute Engine.

Roughly six months after the launch of its “Folsom” release last fall, OpenStack on Thursday unveiled version 2013.1 “Grizzly,” the seventh and latest release of the open source software for building public, private and hybrid clouds.

Cloud services still need a better understanding of what the service level agreements should be and ultimately a more concerted approach towards the applications.

The ownCloud developers have released the third update to ownCloud 5.0 in 24 hours after two security updates caused installations of the software to become unusable. ownCloud 5.0.3 seems to fix these problems...