There is no doubt that open source clouds are on the minds of both open source communities/projects and commercial entities.

With 3/4 of 2012 behind us, we thought it was time to get some feedback on The State of the Open Source Cloud.

We polled more than 100,000 community members to determine the prevailing sentiments concerning open source cloud deployments, the perceived advantages and disadvantages of this technology as well as to gain insight into future open cloud deployments within IT departments. You can download a copy of the full report here.

Highlights from the survey include:

Maturity Hampers the Deployment of Open Clouds

• 82.9% of respondents said they are not using an open cloud.
• Maturity (38.5%), lack of support (30.7%), and security (28.9%) were most commonly selected as reasons why respondents are not using an open source cloud.

OpenStack Dominates Adoption Plans …

SYS-CON Events announced today that Cameramanager.com has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Cameramanager.com is a dedicated surveillance operator with a mission to make the world safer and transparent. Our innovative service secures your shop, office or home through 24/7 availability of recordings on smartphone, tablet or PC. Established in 2007 connecting 50,000 cameras in over ten countries worldwide, we have built strong partnerships with brands like Axis, Panasonic, Dell and over 100 trusted resellers.

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With Cloud Expo 2012 Silicon Valley (11th Cloud Expo) due to open in four weeks’ time at the Santa Clara Convention Center, CA, let’s introduce you in greater detail to the distinguished individuals in our incredible Speaker Faculty for the technical program at the West Coast conference…

We have technical and strategy sessions for you dealing with every nook and cranny of Cloud Computing & Big Data, but what of those who are presenting? Who are they, where do they work, what else have they written and/or said about the Cloud and/or Big Data solutions that are transforming the world of Enterprise IT?

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The 2012 International Outsourcing Summit (IOS) is being held this week in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. I won’t be at the summit this year, but colleagues of mine will be.

This summit is a truly international event, with attendees from all of the world’s regions, drawing attention to the Philippines and its US$11 billion business process outsourcing (BPO) industry. BPO directly accounts for about 5% of the country’s economy, with local leaders driving to more than double its size by 2016.

Accenture, Infosys, CapGemini, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Cognizant, TSC, and CSC are among the best-known global companies with a major presence in the Philippine BPO industry, joined by numerous strong local companies such as Pointwest Technologies.

The country also has an emerging cloud-computing industry that is still a secret to much of the world. Telcos such as Globe Technologies, datacenters providers such as Arcus IT, investors such as Alfredo Ayala and Dado Banatao, and cloud-software developers such as MorphLabs all figure into the mix, along with an exuberant app culture. Much of this industry will also be represented at IOS this year.

This summit and its location remind me that there’s life beyond the G8 and even G20 economies, beyond the usual Asian stops, and beyond the BRICs.

In fact, the research we’ve been conducting over the past 18 months was inspired by what I saw in the economies and tech cultures during my three-year stay in Southeast Asia, based in Manila. Then, I was able to speak with many interesting people, develop some story ideas, and gain key advisors from several countries from contacts I made at last year’s IOS. The event transcends its ostensible, specific focus of BPO in the Philippines.

So as this year’s summit convenes, here’s a quick review of some of the leaders and emerging nations in our latest research at the Tau Institute. As I’ve written before, our analysis is unique and relative, taking into account local resources and resulting in rankings that show what countries are doing the most with what they have.

World – Global Leaders
1. South Korea
2. Estonia
3. New Zealand
4. Netherlands
5. Finland

Asia – Regional Leaders
1. South Korea
2. Vietnam
3. Taiwan
4. Hong Kong
5. Japan

Asia – Emerging Stars
1. Mongolia
2. Philippines
3. Pakistan
4. India
5. Laos

World – Emerging Stars
1. Eastern Africa (Kenya/Uganda/Tanzania/Ethiopia)
2. Ukraine, Bulgaria, & Romania
3. Nigeria
4. Morocco
5. Jordan

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SYS-CON Events announced today that the 20/20 Vision has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
20/20 vision Europe provides an easy-to-use, cost-effective cloud-based solution for Budget2Pay automation on Microsoft Azure. Automated PO, contract and invoice approval not just speeds up the process, but increases track and control over spend. 20/20 vision also supports generic workflow, document and transaction management. Cloud based Budget2Pay!

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SYS-CON Events announced today that the “Holland Pavilion,” eight leading Dutch cloud companies, has been named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Meet the leading Dutch cloud companies at the Holland Pavilion:
20/20 Vision
20/20 vision Europe is a Dutch company that provides successful standard solutions for your entire Budget2Pay process as well as electronic invoicing plus.
http://www.2020vision.eu

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Intel continues to churn out reference platforms for what it calls personal clouds, Atom-based storage used by SMBs to manage the dramatic growth of critical files, e-mail and media and consumers for their music, movies, photos, e-books and videos.
Besides local and remote access, the widgets offer centralized backup and restore, video security, sharing, video playback and streaming, compliance and hardware acceleration.
They’re now being built around the Atom D2550 and D2500 and content can be shared anytime across smartphones, tablets, notebooks and Ultrabooks.
The widgets support multiple file transfer protocols and various operating systems. McAfee AV SDK and VirusScan give small businesses protection against data corruption and virus attacks. And businesses with video surveillance systems can now attach up to two monitors to a single platform-based storage device and view up to four camera feeds that feature HD-quality clarity via the HTTP extension.

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SYS-CON Events announced today that Precog, the leading developer of infrastructure for data warehousing and analysis, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 11th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on November 5–8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Precog is the leading developer of data warehousing and analysis infrastructure designed to help developers build sophisticated Big Data capabilities into their applications. Precog’s family of warehousing, analysis and reporting products empower developers to quickly build Big Data applications without the headache of custom data infrastructure development and maintenance. Precog is the author of the Quirrel declarative query language and has developed the industry’s most complete and heavily optimized execution stack for Quirrel. A 2011 TechStars graduate, Precog is backed by RTP Ventures, Resonant Venture Partners, David Cohen and several notable individual investors.

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