Urban Robotics Extends Octree Format to Point Cloud Library Open Source Community

Urban Robotics, a leading provider of three-dimensional (3D) imaging sensors, software and algorithms, today announced it is making its highly scalable, spatially searchable and colorized 3D octree-based point cloud format available to the Point Cloud Library (PCL) community. PCL is a standalone, large scale, open source project for 3D point cloud processing. Willow Garage of… Continue reading Urban Robotics Extends Octree Format to Point Cloud Library Open Source Community

Nimbula Offers to Help Public Cloud Users Migrate to Private or Hybrid Clouds

Nimbula, the Cloud Operating System Company, today announced the launch of the Nimbula Cloud Migration Service, its newest professional services offering for customers looking to migrate from the public cloud to private or hybrid clouds. Many customers start their online operations on a public cloud infrastructure like Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) because they cannot… Continue reading Nimbula Offers to Help Public Cloud Users Migrate to Private or Hybrid Clouds

New CaseCentral CloudConnect Software Advances Self-Service eDiscovery

CaseCentral, the leader in secure, cloud-based eDiscovery software for corporate counsel and law firms to simplify eDiscovery, today announced the immediate availability of the new self-service CaseCentral CloudConnect software for the CaseCentral eDiscovery Platform. CaseCentral CloudConnect enables law firms and corporate legal departments to securely upload data directly into the CaseCentral eDiscovery Platform to conduct… Continue reading New CaseCentral CloudConnect Software Advances Self-Service eDiscovery

GlobalOne Launches Mobile Cloud Services Practice

GlobalOne, a leader in Cloud Computing, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Social Collaboration professional services for the enterprise, today announced GlobalOne Mobility, a new practice that will offer professional services for building, deploying and maintaining mobile cloud apps for both consumer and enterprise environments. Doug Maloney, former General Manager Innovation and New Business at Vodafone Hutchinson Australia,… Continue reading GlobalOne Launches Mobile Cloud Services Practice

Cloudant Appoints Derek Schoettle as CEO

Cloudant, leading architects & operators of the BigCouch data management network, announced that it has named Derek Schoettle as the company’s new chief executive officer. Schoettle is a veteran software and internet industry executive who was most recently a VP Sales at analytic database leader, Vertica Systems, Inc., targeting telecommunications and media companies. He joins… Continue reading Cloudant Appoints Derek Schoettle as CEO

Symplified Expands Authentication, Mobile and Deployment Options for Cloud IAM Service

Symplified, the Cloud Identity Company, today announced the Winter 2011 release of its cloud identity and access management (IAM) service, a new entry-level version called Symplified ONE™ for businesses that only need to integrate with a single cloud application, and support for the new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. With this release, Symplified now supports strong… Continue reading Symplified Expands Authentication, Mobile and Deployment Options for Cloud IAM Service

OpenFlow 1.2 Marks Big Step Forward for Software Defined Networking

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced today the Board’s approval of OpenFlow Switch Specification Version 1.2 – the first update of the OpenFlow Software Defined Networking (SDN) standard since the ONF’s launch in March, 2011. The new release builds significantly on Stanford University’s Version 1.1 in a number of ways, including support for IPv6, extensible… Continue reading OpenFlow 1.2 Marks Big Step Forward for Software Defined Networking

L.A. Hearing Justifies CAGW’s Caution on the Cloud

Today, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved the second amendment to the Computer Sciences Corporation’s (CSC) contract with the city of Los Angeles. As part of the contract amendment, CSC will not seek reimbursement of the $250,000 advance intended as an incentive for the city to encourage other government users to adopt Google, and… Continue reading L.A. Hearing Justifies CAGW’s Caution on the Cloud