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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recent survey found 85.8 percent of telecoms consider OpenStack to be essential or important to their success. That's not bad for an open-source cloud some people still think isn't ready for ...

This past week Cloud.com released the latest version of its open source Cloud OS, CloudStack. “CloudStack provides a turnkey cloud infrastructure software stack for delivering virtual datacenters as a ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. OpenStack technology has evolved considerably since the project’s inception. The initial “Austin” release in 2010 included just ...

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 ...

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 ...

How to install OpenStack on a single Ubuntu Server virtual machine Your email has been sent If you want to install OpenStack, but don't want to have to dedicate ...