Two well-known Joyent engineers leave as company rejiggers strategy
Mark Cavage was Joyent’s former VP of engineering who spearheaded the company’s Manta object storage service and Ben Rockwood was Joyent’s former director of cloud operations.
Better late than never? Oracle adds OpenStack support to Solaris
The week in cloud: Oracle furthers its OpenStack committment in its new Solaris 11.2 release and Red Hat surprises ecosystem with Inktank/Ceph buy.
Opscode boosts scale, adds Active Directory support to Chef
Striving to make Chef more enterprise-friendly, Opscode added Microsoft Active Directory and Solaris support to the automated configuration management tool. It also says that its Private Chef version can now wring three times as much work out of the same old hardware.
Red Hat attacks cloud-app gap
Red Hat says its new POSIX-compliant virtual storage appliance will make it easier for IT shops to move legacy Unix applications to Amazon’s public cloud. The scale-out NAS appliance, based on Gluster technology, also replaces Centos with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.