The OpenStack platform is an open-source collaboration to develop a private cloud ecosystem, delivering IT services at web scale. OpenStack is divided into a number of discrete projects, each with a ...

It’s been almost eight years since the first release of OpenStack and the promise of a platform that would deliver a new era in open source private cloud. In that time, we’ve seen OpenStack’s star ...

Storage is one of the key building blocks of clouds, and so it was no surprise that storage technology was a key part of the recent OpenStack Summit. Several vendors used the conference to show a ...

Building a cloud without storage is like building a house without closets, cupboards, cabinets, or garage space. In each instance, the finished product might elicit oohs and aahs from the outside, but ...

OpenStack is the open source cloud operating system that people either love or hate – its detractors say it is an immature and over-hyped technology. At the same time proponents say that OpenStack ...

The Ironic project now enables OpenStack cloud administrators to deploy and manage workloads on bare-metal server infrastructure. Erasure Codes Land in OpenStack Swift Storage In the OpenStack Swift ...

At its core, OpenStack is an operating system that builds public or private clouds. But OpenStack is a platform, it’s not just one piece of software that’s downloaded and installed to – voila! – build ...

Red Hat’s long been one of the big go-to outfits for deploying Linux in the enterprise. Now, after its announcements at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong this week, it’s angling to move up a level and ...