With the OpenStack Summit in San Diego this week, open cloud headlines were dominated by OpenStack announcements and analysis. But some new criticisms of the project emerged as well. A Forrester analyst cautions that companies may not get a return on their investment with OpenStack. And TechTarget writes that some key enterprise features are missing from the new Folsom release.

Earlier this week I wrote about the VIP/speaker gift we're giving away at LinuxCon Europe (Twitter hashtag: #linuxcon) and shared with the community how anyone could win their own Linux Futbol Club soccer jersey (make sure to read that story, you could still win if you comment).

Meet Tushar Kute, a new member of The Linux Foundation and a graduate student and assistant professor at the Sandip Institute of Technology & Research Centre in Nashik, India. 

Open source cloud platforms OpenStack, CloudStack and Eucalyptus have made much progress this year in testing Hadoop deployments. Here’s what each of the three major platforms had to say recently about their progress with Hadoop on the open cloud.