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We have partnered with Alfresco to bring Alfresco Team, a platform for content sharing and collaboration, to the cloud! Alfresco Team is a powerful tool for teams that create content such as business documents, spreadsheets, presentations, designs, images, videos, and audio. Now that it is available in the BiNami Cloud Hosting library, you can deploy Alfresco Team to the cloud in minutes! Alfresco Team is a new version of the Alfresco Content System geared towards smaller teams. … more

Together with Cloud.com and Zenoss, we co-sponsored a survey of over 500 IT professionals to determine the key IT objectives and inhibitors for cloud adoption. Unsurprisingly, the results show that there is an overwhelming amount of interest in cloud computing; 61% of organizations are either working on their cloud strategy or already have one approved. Another 20% have cloud implementations in place already and only 20% have no plans for cloud computing at this point. The survey results also answer some other important questions about the cloud: Why are companies moving to the cloud? According to the survey results, the … more

At BitNami, we are committed to making it easy for anyone to run their favorite open source applications natively, virtually and in the cloud. We are excited to announce that we are making it even easier to run BitNami apps in the cloud by offering a free plan for our BitNami Cloud Hosting service! The new free tier of service for BitNami Cloud Hosting allows you to deploy and manage your favorite open source applications on one Amazon micro instance … more

We’re pleased to announce that we have added support for Fedora to BitNami Cloud Hosting. This means you can now choose to run your favorite open source applications in the cloud on either Ubuntu 10.04 or Fedora Linux 14 (32 and 64 bit versions of each are available). BitNami Cloud Hosting users will now see the Fedora options available in the ‘Advanced’ section of the ‘Create a New Server’ screen, as shown in the screenshot below. If you aren’t yet using BitNami Cloud Hosting, sign … more

Amazon announced today support for custom metrics in their CloudWatch service. This means that in addition to the current existing metrics, like CPU or Disk I/O, it is possible to monitor additional services. The new metrics can be used together with all the existing CloudWatch functionality. In particular it is possible to scale up and down based on application-level metrics such as the number of simultaneous connections or the internal load of the database. We are glad to announce that we will be offering custom metrics for most services and applications bundled with our stacks, including Apache, MySQL, Tomcat and … more

As we announced last week, we’re very excited to be partnering with SugarCRM to offer their Professional and Enterprise editions on BitNami Cloud Hosting. With this partnership, BitNami Cloud Hosting becomes the SugarCRM’s preferred method for deploying its software on the Amazon Cloud. BitNami Cloud Hosting provides solutions providers, resellers and end user organizations with an easy to use platform for deploying and managing both the open source and commercial versions SugarCRM in the cloud. In one click, users can launch new servers, … more

BitNami Announced Today its acquisition of Amazon Web Services, the leading platform for public cloud computing. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) April 1st, 2011 — Leading online cloud vendor BitNami today announced it has acquired Amazon Web Services, a division of Amazon.com the world’s leading online retailer. The acquisition brings together two companies who share a passion for serving customers and whose customers benefit from cultures of innovation and long term thinking. BitNami makes it easy for developers and solution providers to deploy and manage popular open source applications natively, virtually and in the cloud. It’s flagship product, BitNami Cloud … more

We would like to send a special thanks to BitNami user Christian Riley for putting together a great demo of how to launch phpBB to EC2 using a BitNami CloudFormation template. As you’ll see in the demo video, he is able to launch phpBB to EC2 in just a few minutes using CloudFormation. In addition to phpBB, all other PHP and Ruby on Rails-based BitNami-packaged applications are now available as CloudFormation templates. Enjoy! … more

Today Amazon announced AWS Japan. What better way to celebrate that launching a few BitNami instances in the new region? All BitNami AMIs are now also available for AWS Japan. Just check in the cloud section for each one of our stacks for the exact AMI id or launch them directly from the Amazon console. This is another step in our commitment to making BitNami the easiest way to deploy and manage applications on Amazon EC2. While you are at it, you may want to check our BitNami Templates for AWS Cloud formation and BitNami Cloud Hosting … more

Amazon has recently released AWS CloudFormation , a new service that helps you describe a ‘stack’ of cloud resources and bring them up as a single unit. A CloudFormation stack can include among other resources load balancers, databases, EBS volumes and of course EC2 instances. A stack definition is called a template and can contain configuration information to be passed to the various resources being provisioned. At BitNami, we are pretty excited about CloudFormation and want to make it easy for you to incorporate BitNami stacks to your deployments. We have now CloudFormation templates for all PHP and Ruby on … more

After several months in private beta, we’re excited to announce that BitNami Cloud Hosting is now available! BitNami Cloud Hosting simplifies the process of deploying and managing open source and other applications in the cloud.

• One-click Application Deployment: Launch servers with one or more applications or development stacks from the BitNami library in one click. Currently available applications include: SugarCRM, Alfresco, JasperServer, Drupal, Wordpress and many others. You can view a list at: http://bitnami.org/cloud/apps
• Automatic Backups and One Click Server Restores: BitNami Cloud Hosting offers automated backups that can … more

We would like to thank BitNami user @mmarschall for putting together a great tutorial on migrating your WordPress blog to a BitNami EC2 (Amazon Cloud) image.

If you’re interested in running your WordPress blog or other open source applications on the Amazon EC2 Cloud, sign up for the (free) beta for BitNami Cloud Hosting.

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We’re pleased to announce that the BitNami AMP and APP Stacks have just been updated to include the Amazon Web Services (AWS) PHP SDK as well as updated versions of Apache and PostgreSQL (where appropriate). As the Amazon website explains it, "The AWS SDK for PHP makes it easier for developers to build applications that tap into the cost-effective, scalable, and reliable AWS cloud. Using the SDK, developers can build solutions for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon SimpleDB, and more. " By including the Amazon PHP SDK in our Apache + … more

We’re very pleased to announce the release of virtually all of the BitNami Stacks as Amazon EBS images! Unlike standard AMIs, EBS volumes offer data persistence and the ability to create snapshots. This means that you can start and stop servers without losing your data. If your instance goes down for any reason, you will not lose any data either, as the EBS volumes are separate from AMI instances. You simply launch a new instance from the same EBS volume. With Amazon EBS, you can also use Amazon’s snapshot feature to save a ‘snapshot’ of an EBS volume at a … more