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.

The total revenue is small potatoes compared to Amazon Web Services (AWS), but the growth rate is great. 451 observed that so far OpenStack-based revenue has been overwhelmingly from service providers ...

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 ...

Dell's launch of Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution Infrastructure-as-a-Serivce comes as customers look for alternatives to proprietary, licensed software cloud models, John Igoe, executive director of ...

This is an opportunity for Platform9, founded back in 2013 by a bunch of VMware engineers specifically trying to solve the problem of making OpenStack clouds based on the KVM hypervisor – and now ...

IT organizations are moving to the public cloud in droves to take advantage of cost savings and efficiency improvements over traditional on premise datacenters. The public cloud offers the promise of ...

The biggest news I see coming out of OpenStack Summit this week is the announcement of the OpenStack Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) training and certification. OpenStack is a collection of ...

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Suse, the newly independent open-source company behind the eponymous Linux distribution and an increasingly large set of managed enterprise services, today announced a bit of a new strategy as it ...

There is an adage, not quite yet old, suggesting that compute is free but storage is not. Perhaps a more accurate and, as far as public clouds are concerned, apt adaptation of this saying might be ...

Following a four-month beta period, Rackspace has started offering its hosted servers and databases using the open source OpenStack suite of cloud software. That OpenStack has been pressed into ...

Today, the OpenStack Foundation is launching the latest version of its platform that allows enterprises to run an AWS-like cloud computing platform in their data centers. Ocata, as the 15th release of ...