Piston Cloud Airframe — A Free Starter Package For Building An OpenStack Cloud

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August 22, 2012

Piston Cloud has built a free OpenStack distribution that is promised to include what is needed to evaluate the open cloud environment.

To really create a cloud environment and to make it useful, you can’t have it dependent on someone else to do it for you But just to get a cloud environment up and running is a task. And that’s the challenge that OpenStack faces. How to get people from working on OpenStack to working with OpenStack as Piston Cloud CEO Josh McKenty said in an interview last week.

Piston Cloud is approaching the problem by combining all the necessary pieces that go into building an OpenStack cloud. That means it has the compute, storage, networking, management and platform as a service (PaaS).

Airframe is meant to serve as a starter kit of sorts to give OpenStack a try. It’s a software package that can run on any commodity server. It is primarily meant for development and test or evaluation. The full Piston Cloud service is available as an upgrade.

OpenStacker Stuffs Free Moxie on USB

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August 22, 2012

Piston Cloud repackages OpenStack for devs

The people who stuffed an enterprise-ready version of the OpenStack cloud onto a USB stick have devised a cut-down freebie edition to get you started.…

Distribution Release: PCLinuxOS 2012.08

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August 22, 2012

PCLinuxOS 2012.08, a new version of the project’s easy-to-use, Linux-based operating system for x86 desktops or laptops, has been released: “PCLinuxOS KDE and KDE MiniME 2012.08 are now available for download. These are 32-bit quarterly update ISO images which can also be installed on 64-bit computers.

Adobe Flash Player Update Patches Six Critical Holes

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August 22, 2012

Adobe has released an update for its Flash Player software that closes six critical vulnerabilities spread over a variety of platforms. Users should install the patches as soon as possible; Google’s Chrome browser will update itself.

VirtualBox 4.1 Update Improves Stability

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August 22, 2012

Version 4.1.20 of Oracle’s desktop virtualisation application has been released with fixes for crashing bugs and better support for Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. The developers have also disabled the clipboard by default for new VMs.

5 Areas Most Likely to be Outsourced in IT: Survey

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ZDNet

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August 22, 2012

New survey of 200 executives finds close to half plan to hire contract talent to fill cloud and mobile development needs.

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Rackspace Sets Up First Australian Datacentre

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August 22, 2012

The cloud service provider is launching its 9th datacentre globally, at Erskine Park in Western Sydney.

Mobility; It’s not a Device, It’s an IT Architecture

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ZDNet

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August 21, 2012

IT needs to address mobility as an architecture issue and consider a myriad of technology, infrastructure and policy decisions, so said Gartner during the opening of its annual Catalyst Conference.

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Samsung Tailors Security for Enterprise Mobility Push

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ZDNet

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August 21, 2012

South Korean electronics giant aims to win over enterprises concerned with bring-your-own-device trend and Android vulnerabilities by customizing offerings based on vertical-specific workflows.

Dell Forms Desktop Virtualization Solutions for Government

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ZDNet

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August 21, 2012

Dell’s formula for desktop virtualization for government: take one part access virtualization we got when we acquired Wise, add one part Dell server hardware, add one part Dell’s partnerships and ecosystem, add one part Wyse thin client hardware, and then stir in the customer’s workload. Nice cake, but will Government customers buy it?

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