Mohamed El-Refaey

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder and leader of Canonical Ltd., the authors and distributors of the Ubuntu distro of Linux, announced the code name of the new version Friday and noted that the Ubuntu team had several priorities, including the design of the system’s “look”, according to a CNET article. The most interesting of the priorities, perhaps, was the inclusion of cloud computing features as a basic part of the package, especially on the server side of the release. The statement released by Shuttleworth was very detailed, although somewhat metaphorical, in the area of cloud computing. The cloud computing section of the release reads as follows, in its entirety: "A good Koala knows how to see the wood for the trees, even when her head is in the clouds. Ubuntu aims to keep free software at the forefront of cloud computing by embracing the API’s of Amazon EC2, and m... (more)

No Plans for Sun to Build Compute Cloud Like EC2

Edward Screven, Oracle's chief corporate architect, mentioned that Oracle would not be offering Sun's long-planned and highly-vaunted compute resource service. They will just play the role of supplier to components and pieces that can be used in cloud services; From the beginning Larry Ellison hates Cloud, and it looks that this will be applied for Sun as well after the complete acquisition done recently ... ... (more)

Cloud Computing Certifications

Cloudonomics Journal on Ulitzer Though am not that fond of certificates in general and believe in practical hands-on to the extremes, it looks that within two years I should be aware of the training kits and certificates exist for cloud computing and virtualization technology :) ... 3Tera (Cloud Computing Platform and services company) announced today their cloud computing certifications and education offerings ... Mark Ortenzi, president of 3Tera partner CariNet, mentioned that "If you don't do it, in two years you won't have a business," According to these announcements there will ... (more)

VMware to Acquire SpringSource

Steve Herrod (VMware CTO) announced today that VMware is intending to acquire SpringSource, a 5 year-old company rapidly becoming a leader in enterprise and web application development and management. http://blogs.vmware.com/console/2009/08/vmware-acquires-springsource.html Seems interesting but we will wait till we see how they will complement each other, cloud/virtualization core vendor and enterprise level Java platform. ... (more)

Ever thought about sharing your idle desktop ?!

Never thought about sharing your desktop idle time with others ? ... NereusV enables idle time donation with a single click on a link in a webpage - there is no software to download and install. Indeed the software developer can remotely "push" new versions of application code to NereusV clients without any action required of the donor. NereusV is a simple, secure, reliable open source for making computer idle time available for productive use. fantastic! I wish I could have more time to test it out and write more about it ... ... (more)