It has been six years now since the “Austin” release of the OpenStack cloud controller was released by the partnership of Rackspace Hosting, which contributed its Swift object storage, and NASA, which ...

The IT industry likes drama perhaps a bit more than is warranted by what actually goes on in the datacenters of the world. We are always spoiling for a good fight between rival technologies because ...

This tutorial shows you how to easily get OpenStack up and running on a Ubuntu Server by way of DevStack. OpenStack is a free, open source platform developed specifically for cloud computing. Through ...

The total revenue is small potatoes compared to Amazon Web Services (AWS), but the growth rate is great. 451 observed that so far OpenStack-based revenue has been overwhelmingly from service providers ...

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OpenStack — co-founded by Rackspace and NASA in 2010 — certainly has the buzz, what with partnerships with AT&T, HP and IBM, to name a few, all of which have promised to use OpenStack as the base for ...

In 451 Research's recent report on OpenStack adoption among enterprise private cloud users, they found that 72 percent of OpenStack-based clouds are between 1,000 and 10,000 cores and three-fourths ...

With OpenStack finally making the inroads its proponents have hoped for, the next big questions are where and how to run it, as well as how to keep it fresh. Several companies have ready answers via ...

OpenStack technology has evolved considerably since the project’s inception. The initial “Austin” release in 2010 included just two core services, while the “Mitaka” release in first half of 2016 ...

IBM has reached into its software portfolio to provide a more sophisticated scheduler for the OpenStack deployments it builds for its customers. ”You don’t want a cloud user to feel like their ...

Back in the day, Red Hat saw a million-dollar opportunity in OpenStack. It went full steam in making sure that OpenStack is tightly integrated with its enterprise operating system, Red Hat Enterprise ...

The OpenStack Foundation today announced that StarlingX, a container-based system for running edge deployments, is now a top-level project. With this, it joins the main OpenStack private and public ...