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An open cloud must have freely accessible, open application programming interfaces (APIs), the freedom to move data between providers at will and no on-site hardware requirement, according to Alex Williams writing at TechCrunch. And an open cloud is federated, meaning that your organization can move data, images and files across multiple cloud environments at will.

Open Data is data that can be freely used, reused and distributed by anyone - subject only, at the most, to the requirement for attributes and sharelikes.

There is no doubt that open source clouds are on the minds of both open source communities/projects and commercial entities.

According to analyst house Gartner, the global app development market is going to hit £5.7 billion ($9bn) by the end of the year, a 1.7% upturn on 2011.

Last week Rackspace announced unlimited availability of its Cloud Servers, becoming the first large-scale public cloud deployment which runs on OpenStack and reportedly involves the biggest software investment Rackspace has ever made.

The cloud uptime debate rumbles on with Hewlett Packard promising their Cloud Object storage service will have at least 99.95% availability.

The secret to Amazon’s success is their ability to tune out the noise and focus on innovating, disrupting and creating new markets. Here’s five reasons how not to compete with Amazon AWS:

As the Google I/O conference gets underway in San Francisco, a Google-backed start-up has launched a cloud solution which aims to eradicate vendor lock-in.