openstack

VMware plays nice with OpenStack, unveils a VMware-powered data-center-in-a-box

Aug

27

2014

SUMMARY:At VMworld, the virtualization giant will unveil new service that makes OpenStack more compatible with VMware tools and VMware-loaded data centers as well as a new appliance that will come stocked with (what else?) VMware software. Virtualization giant VMware plans to announce Monday that its lineup of tools for the data center will soon be compatible ...

IO launches an OpenStack cloud running on open source servers

Jan

29

2014

SUMMARY:IO, which is known for its modular data center designs and specialized data center management software, is getting into the cloud provider space with a new service called IO.Cloud. It’s very open at the foundational level, at least, running OpenStack software on Open Compute hardware. Modular data center expert IO is getting into the cloud ...

There is no open core in OpenStack

Nov

11

2013

SUMMARY:It used to be that open-source business models were exclusively “open core”: take code from trunk, wrap it with proprietary “value-add” and sell a “commercial” edition. For a number of reasons, from fast growth to broad reach, that model doesn’t fit OpenStack. The most common model of monetizing open source is the “open core” ...

Flexiant readies OpenStack support with plug-in-friendly Orchestrator release

Nov

5

2013

photo: JULIADEBOER PHOTOGRAPHY SUMMARY:The British company, whose software aims to help service providers enter the cloud game, has “opened up” its platform to allow more flexibility. It’s also preparing to support OpenStack, claiming it will make service provider deployments less painful. Flexiant, a company that sells service providers software to help them start offering cloud ...

Bracing for the OpenStack deluge

Nov

5

2013

SUMMARY:Huawei, Hitachi and Aptira are aboard as OpenStack Foundation Gold members, Cisco beefs up its OpenStack bundles and more news out of the OpenStack Summit 2013. Here they come. The OpenStack faithful are gathering in Hong Kong this week atthe OpenStack Summit, hoping to show how the open-source cloud stack has matured enough for ...

OpenStack: is it a PaaS killer? The week in cloud

Oct

22

2013

SUMMARY:As the latest release of the open-source cloud infrastructure debuted, controversy swirled anew. Will OpenStack kill third-party PaaSes or vice versa? As the OpenStack Havana release went live last week, controversy over the viability of the open source cloud continued to swirl, this time thanks to a set of dueling blog posts. On Saturday, Simon Wardley posted a ...

OpenStack Havana goes live, but here’s what’s important: new users!

Oct

21

2013

SUMMARY:Next month’s OpenStack Summit will feature some new big-name users — Workday, Concur, Shutterstock — of the open-source cloud infrastructure. The OpenStack Havana release is available as of Thursday — but the delivery of semi-annual code updates is table stakes. What will be more telling is how many actual user companies — as opposed to OpenStack-affiliated vendors — ...

Canonical wants to make OpenStack less of a pain to deploy with Ubuntu Server 13.10

Oct

11

2013

SUMMARY:OpenStack may be on the rise, but its competitors often point to the complexity of setting it up. Ubuntu Server 13.10, due out next week, aims to eliminate that concern through the introduction of so-called charm bundles. Canonical will release version 13.10 of Ubuntu Server in a week’s time, not coincidentally in sync with ...

A Tale of Three OpenStack Clouds : 50,000 Cores in Production at CERN

Oct

8

2013

Tim Bell is CERN’s infrastructure manager, and the recent recipient of an InfoWorld Technology Leadership Award. He spoke about his work with Puppet at CERN at PuppetConf 2012. This post was republished with his permission I had several questions at the recent GigaOm conference in London regarding the OpenStack environments at CERN. This blog entry explains the different instances and ...

Verizon launches new built-from-scratch enterprise cloud

Oct

8

2013

photo: Jordan Novet SUMMARY:New Verizon Cloud, parlaying CloudStack and Xen, promises easy movement of VMware workloads, the end of the noisy-neighbor … pretty much cloud nirvana. Now comes the hard part: winning users. Verizon isn’t the first name that comes to mind when you think of enterprise cloud, but it’s fielded respectable, mostly VMware-based ...