I am at the OpenStack Summit here in Austin and the announcements and releases keep rolling out, illustrating that the growing OpenStack…
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Why boring workloads trump intergalactic scale in HP’s cloud biz
Although having a laugh at so-called “enterprise clouds” is a respected pastime in some circles, there’s an argument to be made that…
Read MoreHP fine-tunes its multi-cloud pitch
It must be really interesting to work at Hewlett-Packard these days. Not only is the company breaking itself in half, it’s making multi-billion-dollar…
Read MoreSooooo, what’s new with HP’s cloud strategy?
Look! Hewlett-Packard is doing something with Eucalyptus after all, at least according to a new web page touting HP Helion Eucalyptus, the “Open.…
Read MoreKubernetes comes to OpenStack this time thanks to Mirantis
For businesses wanting to run the Kubernetes cluster management framework for containers on OpenStack clouds, Google and Mirantis have teamed up to make that happen more…
Read MorePrivate cloud? Public cloud? Rackspace erases the difference
Rackspace is going to stop distinguishing between the money it makes from public cloud and what it derives from “dedicated” cloud, a category that encompasses a…
Read MoreOpenStack comes up huge for Walmart
For those skeptics who still think OpenStack isn’t ready for prime time, here’s a tidbit: @WalmartLabs is now running in excess of 100,000 cores of OpenStack…
Read MoreAWS suits up more enterprise perks
More AWS perks for business users Amazon Web Services has beefed up its identity management and access control capabilities so that businesses…
Read MoreThe poor private cloud gets no respect
Pity your private cloud, if you have one. If cloud analysts are to be believed, private cloud is losing ground as public…
Read MoreWhy VMware is going ‘space-age’ with Google and embracing OpenStack
VMware has developed a reputation in some circles as being proprietary and less innovative than it was when the company made server…
Read MoreInternap expands OpenStack public cloud push
Internap is now offering OpenStack-based public cloud services for the enterprise-rich New York metropolitan area from its Secaucus, New Jersey data center. Atlanta-based Internap paints…
Read MoreRackspace to users: It’s time to move to next-gen cloud
You know how hard it is to let go of things. That ancient high school sweatshirt, the Netware server in the closet … But…
Read MoreApprenda teams with Piston to gain OpenStack support
Apprenda, which started out as a .NET-and-Windows-focused Platform-as-a-Service but has since opened up to other languages and technologies, continues to broaden its horizon. A new…
Read MoreThe OpenStack opportunity: so how big is it?
Calculating how much revenue — or profit — commercial vendors wring out of open-source software is a tough nut to crack. One…
Read More4 thoughts on 4 clouds, from a guy who sees them all
Sebastian Stadil has been managing cloud environments for years as the creator of the Scalr project and founder of the startup he built…
Read MoreMo’ money, mo’ data, mo’ cloud on the Structure Show
If you want an informed opinion on the state of the cloud and the relative merits of the players, Sebastian Stadil’s…
Read MoreAt the ripe old age of 5, will OpenStack simmer down?
I don’t normally go for these year-ahead predictions by tech big wigs (remember that before you hit send) but an item on this list…
Read MoreMicrosoft plays nice with Docker while Azure takes a hit
While many tech enthusiasts may still be reeling from last week’s wave of Amazon-related cloud announcements, this week showed that Amazon isn’t the only company making big cloud news.…
Read MoreWhy eHarmony is rebuilding itself atop Hadoop and (probably) OpenStack
Dating site eHarmony is overhauling its IT infrastructure with a lot of open source technology. CTO Thod Nguyen explains what the company is looking to use and why it made those choices.…
Read MoreCloud computing makes for some strange bedfellows
OpenStack backer Rackspace jumps on Azure bandwagon, Microsoft ally Apprenda embraces Amazon Web Serivces. What's going on here? The week in cloud.…
Read MoreAfter years of touting its cloud computing tech, Joyent open sources it
After repositioning itself behind its years-old container-based approach to cloud infrastructure, Joyent has now open sourced the code underlying its distributed cloud infrastructure and storage systems. For a company long heralded as a tech leader, its time to shine is now or never.…
Read MoreWhy OpenStack needs to be more like instant oatmeal
Four years in, OpenStack has a ton of mind share and interest, but general adoption still lags. Why? Because it's still too hard. Customers want easy-peasy.…
Read MoreStratoscale scores $32M from Intel and others to converge your hardware
Startup says its software can turn standard X86 boxes into "hyper-converged" data center appliances that handle storage and compute.…
Read MoreRed Hat and Mirantis: The gloves are off
They may still be nominal partners, but the bad blood is now on show for all to see. Red Hat claims Mirantis reneged on their deal by releasing its own product, but Mirantis responded by accusing Red Hat of an OpenStack lock-in ploy.…
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