The idea of the open cloud has different meanings. There are open infrastructure groups that are working toward federating clouds at the infrastructure level. These are groups such as OpenStack and Cl
Over the past few days I've been in San Francisco for <a target="_blank" href="http://vmworld.com">VMware's annual show</a> and in San Diego to spend some time with the technologists at <a target="_
Services (AWS); Citrix via the now open source Cloudstack; OpenStack and a host of companies such as ManageIQ that are specializing in developing environments specifically tuned for enterprises to abs