Open Source Cloud Computing Software

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1. Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is a great virtual resource management system. It is open source implementation of Amazon Web Service. Eucalyptus implements IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) style private and hybrid clouds. This software provides a single interface that lets you access virtual infrastructure resources (machines, network, and storage) available in private clouds and resources available externally in public cloud services.
Eucalyptus includes these nice features:
-Compatibility with Amazon Web Services API.
-Installation and deployment from source or DEB and RPM packages.
-Secure communication between internal processes via SOAP and WS-Security.
-Support for Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs) .
-Support for multiple clusters as a single cloud.
-Elastic IPs and Security Groups.
-Users and Groups Management.
– Accounting reports.
-Configurable scheduling policies and SLAs.

2. OpenNebula
Just like Eucalyptus, OpenNebula  is open source IaaS solution for building private clouds. OpenNebula supports the Xen Hypervisor, KVM, and VMware vSphere virtualization approaches. Unlike Eucalyptus, OpenNebula allows to move running instances between the connected nodes. To date, however, OpenNebula only provides basic support for the EC2 SOAP and EC2 Query APIs. It is possible to retrieve a list of images and instances and to start, restart, and stop instances. In addition, OpenNebula can be used to control Amazon EC2 resources. A cutting-edge feature of OpenNebula is its node grouping capability, so that it enables High Performance Computing as a Service (HPCaaS). Contrary to Eucalyptus, OpenNebula does not include a storage service which is compatible with the S3 or EBS API.

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IBM Lotusphere 2011 – Get Social, Do Business

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A week ago, IBM has just held a Lotusphere 2011, an annual gathering event of all IBM Lotus stakeholders which was held at Disney World, Orlando, USA.

On this occasion gathered more than 5000 people who have an attachment with IBM Lotus, like IBM employees, business partners, as well as users from around the world. The tagline this year is Get Social, Do Business.

Among many social networks that arise and sink, two of which have become icons, Facebook and Twitter. Of course, the phenomenon is the presence of Facebook, which has made its founder Mark Zuckerberg as the world’s youngest billionaire. Time magazine even made it as a Person of the Year 2010.

And it’s not a coincidence that in the opening of Lotusphere 2011 this time, IBM presents Kevin Spacey to be the keynote speaker. He is the protagonist in the American Beauty who won the Oscar 2 times, and also the executive producer of the Social Network.

Continue Reading >>> IBM Lotusphere 2011 – Get Social, Do Business.

Vatican Approve Virtual Confession App on iPhone

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First time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, the iPhone is used as a device for confession. Is this going to remove the old tradition of the Vatican?

Along the development technology, the Vatican has approved an application called ‘Confessions: A Roman Catholic App’ which now has been in the App Store for USD 1.99.

When using this application, Catholics can choose list of sins that exist in the application, or add it yourself. Like the sacrament of sin confession in general, Catholics can choose penitence – penalty of sin in the form of prayer- thereafter.

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Quora, a Twitter killer?

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Throughout the year 2010, the popularity of Facebook and Twitter is dominating. In contrast, MySpace, Friendster, and Bebo, slowly are fading in the universe of social networking. How are social networks in 2011?

Some say Facebook will fail to reach IPO (Initial Public Offering) despite its valuation which already reached US$50 billion, MySpace will be sold, Twitter will be boring. However, talking about Twitter like services, it seems still becoming the trending in social networking this year. Continue Reading >>>Quora, a Twitter killer?.

Best Games of 2010

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Nowadays games have evolved very rapidly! Features that previously could only be dreamed by gamers had become a reality, for example, controlling the game without using a controller on Kinect for Xbox 360. So is the graphic quality that increases beyond the scale, at least in the minds of gamers a few years ago. Here are games that we think are the best of 2010 in various genres.

Mass Effect 2

Genre: Role Playing Game
Why We Choose It:
Mass Effect 2 has a very exciting game and is able to combine real time action and the RPG element. The theme and story are also very interesting to follow. Moreover, this game still has a strong relationship with the first game (Mass Effect). In fact, you can use the character you played in the first game and the world at this game would be influenced by the choices you made in the first game! Plus this game has many interesting features that give you the options to form a character according to what you want. Mass Effect 2 is the games you should play when you think you’re real RPG gamer.  Continue Reading >>>Best Games of 2010.

Want to Learn Human Anatomy? Use Google Body Browser

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Google is now developing a new browser that map the entire human body parts.The browser is called Google Body Browser, a brand-new application with advanced 3D technology that is considered as a breakthrough in the study of anatomy that could revolutionize our understanding of human body and perhaps even more rapidly absorbed than study through a textbook.

This application has not been officially released by Google. Similar to applications previously issued, Google lets you explore the anatomy of the body from different angles as you please, exactly as you explore the Earth with Google Earth. Continue Reading >>> Want to Learn Human Anatomy? Use Google Body Browser.

Turkey Claims That They Have Developed Faster Search Engine Than Google

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Head of a software company based in Ankara, Turkey said that they have developed an online search engine which works faster and more accurate than Google Inc., the leading player in the world of search engines.

“Epiri Professional 5.1 is an excellent program that displays the exact amount of results for this type of information you requested without distinguishing the types of documents found in a way that you can archive and reorganize them or do another search in them,” said Murat Karaveli, generals director of Horizon Software Co., in an interview with the Anatolia news agency when talking about his search engine company. Continue Reading>>>Turkey Claims That They Have Developed Faster Search Engine Than Google.

Wow, Mozilla Released the Final Beta Version for Firefox 4

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Mozilla released the final beta version for Firefox 4, their latest Internet browser, before releasing the final version. Several improvements have been made including full support WebGL standards-based three-dimensional (3D) graphic.

“Firefox 4 beta now supports WebGL for modern built-in graphics card which is common in use. This makes the developers more easily create interactive 3D games, sharp graphics, and a new visual experience on the Web without depending on third party plug-ins,” said Mike Beltzner, Firefox Product Manager, in his blog, yesterday. Continue Reading >>>Mozilla Released the Final Beta Version for Firefox 4.

WWF Had Created Eco-Friendly Document Format

reducing printed documents can help saving trees

World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), international organization that focuses on environmental preservation, announced that they have created their first file format named WWF (.wwf). This file format was designed to replace the PDF format (.pdf).

This document format created by WWF is identical with PDF files. But there is one significant difference. Document files in this format cannot be printed to the printer.

WWF hopes these document formats can reduce the need for unnecessary printing, or at least give knowledge to various parties that a lot of papers use is not really an urgent need. Continue Reading >>> WWF Had Created Eco-Friendly Document Format.

LibreOffice is Better than OpenOffice ?

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One of the biggest news in the open source world in 2010 was the separation of OpenOffice developers from their big boss, Oracle, and formed their own group named The Document Foundation (TDF).

TDF has been supported by various parties such as Google, Canonical, the Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative, Novell, Red Hat and many more.

By separating themselves from Oracle, TDF make their own office suite named LibreOffice. TDF was originally planned to use OpenOffice name if allowed. Unfortunately Oracle refused invitation to join TDF, including refused to give permission using OpenOffice name.

Many Linux distributions are ready to replace OpenOffice with LibreOffice in the standard installation package. One of them is Ubuntu, as informed by Mark Shuttleworth. Continue Reading >>> LibreOffice is Better than OpenOffice ?.