OpenStack
Nexenta Object Storage Targets OpenStack, Big Data
Software-defined storage specialist Nexenta launched the first version of it block and object storage package designed to provide inline data compression and deduplication on petabyte-scale clusters. The scale-out storage ...Full Article
SAP Teams With Cloud Foundry, OpenStack
SAP, the German enterprise software giant, is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation and OpenStack Foundation open source communities. The vendor also rolled out at an open source convention in ...Full Article
Ceph Clustered Storage Dons A Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's largest supplier of support services for open source software, and it has delivered its first update to the Ceph storage software it acquired back ...Full Article
OpenStack Sees Widespread Enterprise Adoption
As a recent attendee and speaker at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, I was amazed at what a difference a year makes in the life of the OpenStack project. ...Full Article
Debate: How Many Open Source Platforms Are Enough?
Representatives of competing open source cloud controllers debated the merits of each and whether multiple open cloud platforms are even needed. The platform debate often comes down to which ...Full Article
Red Hat Buys OpenStack Integrator eNovance
Red Hat is acquiring privately-held eNovance, an open source cloud computing service provider, for about 50 million euros ($67.8 million) in cash along with 20 million euros ($27.1 million) in ...Full Article
HP Orchestrates Datacenters With OpenStack, Chef
An "orchestrated datacenter" rolled out by Hewlett-Packard aims to accelerate the design and deployment of applications, infrastructure and cloud-based services, the company said. The adoption of cloud computing and ...Full Article
Rackspace Hires Bankers To Explore Its Options
The potent combination of OpenStack cloud computing software, Open Compute Project minimalist hardware designed explicitly for hyperscale datacenters, and fanatical support may not be enough to allow for Rackspace ...Full Article
Firing Up 75K VMs On OpenStack In An Afternoon
Running distributed applications on cloud computing capacity means, in theory, that IT shops never have to do capacity planning again. For large enough aggregations of lines of business inside ...Full Article
OpenStack Dominated By Tire Kickers, Code Testers – For Now
There is no question that OpenStack has momentum behind it and that organizations of all types and stripes are thinking about how they might deploy the open source tool ...Full Article
