VMware is not necessarily known as a company that thoroughly embraces open source, but one of its top CTOs says OpenStack could play an important role as a standard in the cloud computing market. The ...

A survey of OpenStack users, done by members of the OpenStack Foundation has found that Ubuntu is by far the most widely used operating system with OpenStack, not Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS ...

Rackspace launched its OpenStack open source cloud computing platform earlier this year to a great deal of fanfare and whispers that it could represent a major shift in the cloud computing landscape.

As the recent uproar over the Amazon outage cast in bold relief, Amazon Web Services has become the de facto standard for IaaS in the public cloud. While companies such as VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, ...

Red Hat offers a number of major infrastructure platforms, with offerings like the Ansible automation service, the Kubernetes-based OpenShift container platform and the OpenStack platform for those ...

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) ancestor, was already around, and Microsoft launched Azure in February 2010. But even though these depended on Linux and other open-source ...

Cisco’s intention to buy Piston Cloud Computing and IBM’s acquisition of Blue Box Group, both announced this week, are bids to make private cloud platform OpenStack less of a headache for IT ...

There seems to be a perception that the cloud infrastructure OpenStack software is primarily used by service providers and not used so much by enterprises. At last week’s OpenStack Summit in Vancouver ...

One bit of accepted wisdom in some cloud circles is that OpenStack, the open-source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud, is declining. Nothing could be further from the truth. It's alive, well, ...

I loved reading “Accelerating NFV Delivery with OpenStack,” a white paper recently published by the OpenStack Foundation that documents the strides OpenStack is making. In collaboration with other ...

Attachmate’s Suse division has announced plans to offer software based on the OpenStack platform for enterprises to build private clouds. Suse Cloud, which won’t be available for nine months to a year ...