Roman Stanek has backed the "right thing" at the right time twice during his career in tech. Is he now onto his third??
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Microsoft is teaming up with the OpenNebula project to create infrastructure-as-a-service clouds combining open source software and Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform. While Microsoft has traditionally been no friend to open source projects, Redmond’s attempt to gain broader acceptance of Hyper-V has led it to submit drivers to the Linux kernel and to support several Linux-based operating systems.
But supporting Linux isn’t really enough. Virtualization is increasingly being used by businesses to deploy Amazon-like infrastructure clouds within their own data centers, using a mix of hypervisors and cloud automation software. OpenNebula, cloud software released under the Apache License, was already supported by VMware, Xen, and KVM, but not by Hyper-V. That will change in mid-October when a prototype of the Hyper-V and OpenNebula integration components will be released under the Apache license, says OpenNebula project director Ignacio Llorente.
“Microsoft is providing support and technical guidance to [the] OpenNebula open-source project to add and maintain Hyper-V on the list of officially supported hypervisors,” Llorente writes. “The integration will support both variants of Hyper-V, namely in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Disk images will be managed using a shared storage server (e.g. SAN) and standard POSIX calls from the OpenNebula server. OpenNebula will additionally leverage the networking management functionality provided by Hyper-V. The integration will not require the installation of new services in the nodes, making [it] quite simple and rapid to build an OpenNebula cloud on existing Hyper-V deployments.”
Microsoft previously ensured Hyper-V interoperability with OpenStack, another open source cloud computing project developed by NASA and Rackspace. Hyper-V is taking on an increasingly important role in Microsoft’s Windows platform, and will be featured in next year’s Windows Server 8 as well as in the Windows 8 desktop OS.
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Aloha! You know where I wish I were right now? That's right, Maui! You know who else is in Maui? Some of the Google Social team. Note: I am really jealous of anyone who is a Googler in Maui right now, because it sure beats being someone who has to write about being a Googler in Maui right now. According to unpaid blogger Michael Arrington, I'm not alone in my jealousy, as some other people who worked on Google+ apparently weren't included in the Maui offsite, and "wish they were." Makes sense.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/dhGfRC4yWws/
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The great game developer Double Fine has released an app for the App Store, and it's related to their very popular game Psychonauts (which recently arrived on the Mac App Store itself), but it's not, unfortunately, a port of the game. The Psychonauts Vault Viewer is instead sort of an ancillary add-on to the title, a compendium of all of the game's "memory vault" animations, along with new commentary from the game's creators Scott Campbell and Tim Schafer. It's interesting but if you've never played Psychonauts, you probably won't find a lot of enjoyment in the app itself. If you love the game, the app is like an extras DVD, with lots of game content and some other features.
Vault Viewer is a free universal app, available now on the App Store. We've seen quite a few game companies use Apple's platform in this way, creating ancillary apps to their main games, and making use of the mobile platforms as a sort of a "second screen" for players either while they're playing or for a game on another platform. I wouldn't be surprised to eventually see a full iOS game from Double Fine, but for now, this is what we've got.
Double Fine releases Psychonauts app originally appeared on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Source: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/09/29/double-fine-releases-psychonauts-app/
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HP is clearly overcome with buyer's remorse over its acquisition of Palm, and the future of the former mobile company and its webOS software hangs in the balance. Who will rescue it? Believe it or not, VentureBeat claims that Amazon is already in negotiations with HP to acquire what's left of Palm.
Quoting a "well-placed source," VentureBeat notes, "HP is currently looking to rid itself of Palm as soon as possible, and that Amazon is the closest to finalizing the deal, among a ...
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