Cisco moves to open cloud

The move to cloud-based infrastructure is one in other words set to dominate networking discussions in 2011, writes IT Management.

One of the leaders in the move to cloud is networking giant Cisco, which provides servers, routing and switching infrastructure that enables cloud computing deployments. At this hour of cloud development and deployment, standards are on the whole emerging, which is where open source software may be able to help, the report states.

"We are interested in working a lot more with different open source communities as that's where a lot of the cloud activity is happening," Lew Tucker, Cisco CTO for Cloud Computing told InternetNews.com. "Open source is contributing a lot of research to the cloud computing arena today."

Object-orientated data innovation is a data-sharing architecture Nasa developed to use metadata to seek out disparate and geographically dispersed data sources for access by any user. It was developed for that purpose in 1998 and has evolved in the past 12 years to accommodate data sharing among several Nasa Earth science projects, including the Npoess Preparatory Project, a joint effort by Nasa, the US Defence Department and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Soil Moisture Active and Passive test bed.

Different data type

"Each database is broken into a different data type," says Chris Mattmann, a senior computer scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab. "The system collects data with different research and turns it into an online entry point that allows people to search across datasets."

The open source NES emulator, called SharpNES, has been ported to Windows Phone 7 by Matt Bettcher, who says it only took a couple of hours and for all that needs work to optimise it for the platform, states Geek.com.

However, it may never make it on to the shiny new Windows phone as Microsoft has already said it will never get on Marketplace, the report says. Although Bettcherwill makes it available for free, Microsoft has told him to forget it.