It seems that UShareSoft UForge is the new rPath! UForge is an Adobe AIR app that lets you create CentOS or Ubuntu software appliances and VMs (with packages of your choice such as alfresco cms and apache httpd) for use on your own (cloud.com, Cloud Stack, Eucalyptus, VMware, Xen) clouds !
CloudStack IAAS Cloud Software Platform (from Citrix) includes
Virgin Media Business virginmediabusiness.co.uk are now reselling clouds from Century Link centurylink.com owned Savvis savvis.com/Enterprise-Cloud
The Oracle Public Cloud will be arriving shortly !
Cloud Foundry have created a Micro Cloud that you can download onto your desktop !
SYS-CON have published a Cloud Computing Journal http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/ and some Cloud Webcasts http://webcast.sys-con.com/
Amazon have just added support for Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to the AWS Management Console.
Amazon SQS offers a reliable and highly scalable queue-based messaging service which supports distributed application and makes it easy to exchange time-sensitive data between components or EC2 instances.
VMware (and VMworld) now have half a dozen IPTV channels full of videos including
Try the IBM SmartCloud cloud simulator
or try the real IBM SmartCloud cloud FREE for a month until 11 Nov 11 !
theres even a cost calculator to use so you can see how much it your cloud will cost to run after that
The VMware Player to Virtual Box migration how to from the Fat Bloke @ Oracle includes this piece of advice which i completely agree with !
“the Fat Bloke’s First Rule of VM Migration is: Don’t“
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