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Good Morning, Portland! Winter is almost here and Thanksgiving is fast approaching. But we still have some great events going on in Portland this week. If you’ve ever wanted to learn what it takes to get funding for your startup, then this week is for you. OEN has a number of startup funding events going on this week.

I’ve also started a Portland StartupDigest Google+ Page. Follow me there for more information during the week about Portland startups.

Enjoy the events and have a great holiday this week.

-Erik

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This week’s edition focuses on OpenStack improving three core projects and adding a Web-based dashboard, making Facebook self-healing, Facebook and Heroku teaming up to bring you the fastest and easiest way to get your own Facebook app up and running in the cloud, Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) unveiling its new Liquid technology, and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth’s ringing endorsement of Amazon Web Services APIs.

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What You Need to Read This Week

OpenStack Diablo is a Quantum Leap for Open Source Cloud
By Joe Brockmeier, ReadWriteWeb

OpenStack releases a new version.

Making Facebook Self-Healing
By Pat Power, Facebook

Half of Facebook software issues are managed by automation developed by two full-time engineers.

Facebook and Heroku
By Adam, Heroku

Facebook and Heroku have developed a friction-free workflow to develop Facebook apps and run them in Heroku PaaS cloud.

NSN to push cloud computing to telco gear market
By Tarmo Virki, Reuters

Network equipment vendor Nokia Siemens Networks moves into the cloud.

Canonical Founder Endorses Amazon Web Services APIs As Standard Cloud API
By Arnal Dayaratna, Huffington Post

Mark Shuttleworth endorses the AWS APIs, calling them the HTTP of the cloud world.

 

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This week’s edition focuses on some Office 365 customers saying they were unable to use the service for several hours, Sprint Nextel planning to enter the cloud services business in the fourth quarter, Amazon Web Services announcing a new special administrative district of its cloud, CloudSwing, an upcoming offering from OpenLogic that builds on its core business of providing technical support for open-source software, and VMware Inc. working with Dell Inc. and the Ubuntu Linux operating system to spur adoption of its cloud-computing software.

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Velchamy Sankarlingam – VP of Cloud Services Development and Operations at VMware
Brady Murray – Director of Alliances at Eucalyptus Systems

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

Microsoft’s Office 365, SkyDrive down for some users
By Nancy Gohring, Computerworld

Cloud outages still making news, with Microsoft getting hit this week.

Sprint to launch cloud services in 4th quarter
By Roger Cheng, CNET

More big telcos are offering cloud services, with Sprint expected to enter the game soon.

Amazon Builds a Wall Around Its Cloud for the U.S. Government
By Scott M. Fulton, III, ReadWriteWeb

AWS goes after the government cloud market with a unique new offering.

OpenLogic touts CloudSwing for open source clouds
By Chris Kanaracus, Techworld

Another addition to the crowded PaaS market of Heroku (Salesforce), CloudFoundry (VMware), OpenShift (RedHat), Azure (Microsoft), DotCloud, Joyent, App Engine (Google).

VMware Enlists Dell to Help Wage “Operating Systems War” in Cloud Business
By Dina Bass, Bloomberg

VMware partners with Dell, Ubuntu and Enstratus Networks to distribute Cloud Foundry.

 

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Good morning, Portland! 

Wanted to remind every one of Startup Riot: Seattle on August 24th. Hurry and sign up soon as an attendee or presenter. Now on to the events for this week.

Erik

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What’s Going on in the Portland Startup Community

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Cloud, the members-only guide to what you need to read in the cloud technology community every week.

This week’s edition focuses on the idea that Amazon.com Inc’s cloud computing unit may be its next billion-dollar business, HP joining OpenStack, former NASA CTO Chris Kemp announcing his new company Nebula, and the challenges healthcare organizations must overcome to integrate disparate healthcare systems using the cloud computing model. 

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Amazon’s next billion-dollar business eyed

By Alistair Barr, Reuters

The investment community is beginning to take notice of just how big a business AWS could be for Amazon.

HP joins OpenStack

By Derrick Harris, GigaOM

HP follows Dell and Cisco to support OpenStack.

Ex-NASA CTO Launches OpenStack Appliance Company Nebula

By Klint Finley, ReadWriteWeb

OpenStack-based appliances targeting ease of deployment and operation of OpenStack.

Challenges of cloud computing in healthcare integration

By Eliot Muir, ZDNet

Discussion on the lack of adoption of cloud computing in the healthcare industry.

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Welcome back to StartupDigest Cloud, the members-only guide to what you need to read in the cloud technology community every week.

This week’s edition focuses on Citrix purchasing open-source cloud software provider Cloud.com, VMware launching the latest version of its vSphere virtualization management software, AWS and Microsoft joining together to extend Microsoft License Mobility through Software Assurance to the AWS Cloud, Missile Defense Agency looking to cloud computing to better serve their customers, and Piston Cloud Computing, Inc., raising $4.5 million in funding.

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What You Need to Read This Week

Citrix Moves Into the Cloud with Cloud.Com Purchase
By Joab Jackson, CIO.com

Citrix purchases Cloud.Com. Considered as an offensive move against VMware and responding to threat from OpenStack and KVM.

How VMware wants to be the OS for the cloud
By Derrick Harris, GigaOM

VMware announces Cloud Infrastructure Suite and new licensing model based on virtual memory allocation.

Extending Microsoft Licensing Mobility to the AWS Cloud
From Amazon Web Services Blog

AWS and Microsoft working out licensing to allow you to move MS servers into the AWS cloud.

Why I’m Sold on the Cloud
By Jim Armstrong, CIO.com

Jim Armstrong, CIO of the Missile Defense Agency, talks about their use of private cloud.

Piston Cloud Computing Raises $4.5 Million For Open Source Cloud
From Business Wire

Commercial version of OpenStack gets funding.

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What’s Going on in the Vienna Startup Community

IT-Cluster: Building large cloud computing applications with Amazon EC2
When: July 14 – 17:00
Where: BRC – Meldemannstrasse 18, 1200

Amazon’s Matt Wood shows startups, entrepreneurs and IT professionals how to create complex, cloud-based applications, including best practices for Amazon’s AWS service.

Crowdsourcing podium discussion with OpenStreetMap founder Steve Coast
When: July 14 – 17:00
Where: Raum D, Museumsquartier Wien – Museumsplatz 1, 1070

Prior to the State of the Map Europe conference, OpenStreetMap and CloudMade founder Steve Coast is holding a podium discussion about crowdsourcing and the history of OpenStreetMap.

Werbeplannung Summit
When: July 14 – 15
Where: Hofburg – Heldenplatz, 1010

Austria’s annual premier online advertising and marketing conference is here again. 2 days of discussions and workshops around the topic of online marketing, social media marketing and much more.

State of the Map Europe 2011
When: July 15 – 17
Where: TU Wien – Gußhausstraße 27-29, 1040

The first European State of the Map Conference by the OpenSteetMap Project is happening in Vienna! Featuring talks about best practices, showcases of OSM-powered projects and an opening Keynote by Steve Coast, founder of CloudMade and OpenStreetMap.

 

 

Alex Barrera – Co-Founder of Inkzee
Luis Rivera – Founding partner at Okuri Ventures

 

 

What’s Going on in the Madrid Startup Community

Betabeers workshop: HTML5
When: Mon June 20, 7:00pm
Where: Vivero de Puente de Vallecas, Calle de La Diligencia, 9 28018 Madrid

For those of you that want to know about html5, our friends and alumni from Tetuan Valley will be giving a workshop on it. Definitely worth checking it out if you’re getting into mobile development and multiplatform apps.

Workshop on Amazon Web Services
When: Tues June 21, 9:00am
Where: Pradillo 54, Nave F, 28002 Madrid

And after some html5, let’s get on with some cloud! Amazon will be giving a free workshop on AWS and all the cool stuff they’re doing there. It’s by Amazon invitation only but I’m sure that if you register, you’ll get one after all — Amazon people are cool.

AndroidStartup: Innovadores+desarrolladores
When: Wed June 22, 6:00pm
Where: CIBALL – Corredera Baja de San Pablo, 51

Once you know html5 and AWS, it’s time to get on the Android board. If you want to know more, discuss ideas or simply look for Android developers, this is the place to check.

Sushi & Tweets
When: Wed June 22, 9:30pm
Where: Madrid, TBD

And to end the day, some sushi with the Twittersphere of Madrid. They still have to post the restaurant but keep checking it as it looks like yummy!

TEDxCibeles
When: Sat June 25, 10:00am – 06:00pm
Where: EOI, Av de Gregorio del Amo, 6 (metro Metropolitano L6)

To close the week, one of those cool events that rock. TEDx comes back to Madrid (still need to figure out why do we have so many as of lately). This time the focus is on education! I wonder when they’ll invite me.

 

There’s quite a variety of events going on around town this week. A little something for everyone. The next couple of months are also going to be jammed-packed. Stay tuned. If you have an event you would like featured on the Portland Startup digest, just send an email to erik@thestartupdigest.com or via Twitter. See you next week.

Erik

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