Convirture unveils enterprise cloud management console

Convirture, maker of the ConVirt enterprise-grade software for managing Xen and KVM-based virtual and private cloud environments, is partnering with Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu open source operating system, to help organizations effectively manage virtual machines built using Ubuntu. ConVirt 2.0 Open is now available in the Ubuntu Partner Repository.

ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise Edition from Convirture brings automation, high-availability and private cloud management to open source virtualization

In days past, virtualization platforms that relied on an amalgamation of different technologies could present complications for IT managers.

Red Hat today acquired ManageIQ for its IT management software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ManageIQ is in the data center automation and virtualization business. Data center automation is essentially retrofitting a data center so it can have a degree of elasticity and integrate with public clouds.

Performance management specialist Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD) and virtualization giant VMware (NYSE: VMW) announced the latest step in their partnership to help enterprises move to the cloud with Riverbed wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions, which accelerate virtual machines (VMs) moving between clouds — private, public and hybrid — using VMware vCloud Connector. Built on VMware

Choice is usually a great thing, but it has its downsides. In IT, one of them is the complexity of managing the host of different configurations that arise when users have lots of competing software products to choose from.

Microsoft, Red Hat, HP and Oracle all had big cloud announcements this week that highlight the growing trend toward enterprise cloud computing.

Xen.org, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced the availability of Xen Cloud Platform 1.6 (or short XCP), an industry-leading virtualization platform for companies to create and manage virtual infrastructures for servers, desktops and clouds.

Hi all,

Private, Public and Hybrid Clouds

I'm now testing OpenStack; Home OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software -Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) -Platform as a Service (PaaS) -Software as a Service (SaaS)

It is an Open Source software.

I'm interested to know whether there are other Open Source software with equivalent features?

TIA

B.R. satimis