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Making Plans for OpenStack Summit
We’re three weeks away from the biggest gathering of OpenStack community members yet. Nearly 2,200 developers, users, investors, media and analysts will descend on the Oregon Convention Center for the...
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State of the Stack – Image Management
…the feedback seems to suggest this was the best presentation of an excellent event.
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OpenStack’s Hottest Products Right Now
As the OpenStack Summit is underway in Portland, Ore., this week, a variety of companies are making product and services news at the show.
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OpenStack Summit: 10 Vendors Putting Storage Front And Center
The new release, which supports OpenStack Grizzly, targets enterprises, SaaS providers and cloud service providers with enhancements to OCS Block Storage including point-in-time copies of volumes that...
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OpenStack at 3: This is What Winning Looks Like
If winning derives from rapid iteration of a minimum viable product, then all indications are that the momentum driving OpenStack will only continue.Consider three facts that demonstrate the rapid...
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OpenStack’s Future Depends on Embracing Amazon. Now.
An Open Letter to the OpenStack Community:Our Future Depends on Embracing Amazon <UPDATE: Please see the follow up response to this letter .>Dear Stackers, For three years, elements of the...
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Looking in the Mirror: A Response to My Open Letter
Last week I published an open letter to the OpenStack community calling for more focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS) compatibility. I feel strongly about this, as do others. However, in retrospect, I...
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Vote Now: Fall OpenStack Summit Presentations
Voting is now open for the OpenStack Summit fall 2013 in Hong Kong. Cloudscalers have submitted a variety of presentations, from Randy Bias’ popular “State of the Stack” overview of the project to...
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Game On: OCS 2.5 Ships, New Programs and Features on Tap
As we celebrated OpenStack’s third birthday over the summer, the Cloudscaling team was also putting the final touches to OCS 2.5. Today, we are happy and proud to announce general availability of OCS...
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You Can’t Collapse Tiered Storage in Private Clouds Built on OpenStack:...
Fantastical thinking by private cloud builders has led to a deep misunderstanding of cloud storage technologies. If you are building a private cloud, you MUST understand the realities of cloud storage...
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Juniper’s OpenContrail Is a Sign of the Times
Today’s launch of OpenContrail by Juniper Networks is a sign of the times. As we have seen with the OpenStack project, some of the largest enterprise vendors have been embracing open source with a...
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OpenStack Skills: Critical for the new Cloud Era
We live in a world where the cloud is a key component of IT’s ability to become agile, accelerate innovation and open up entirely new ways of competing. As enterprises continue their movement to the...
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Webinar: Deploying an OpenStack-Powered Private Cloud
Cloudscaling gets asked these questions frequently – weekly if not daily.Is OpenStack production ready?Can’t I just download OpenStack from openstack.org for free?Are vendor OpenStack implementations...
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Demo: Hybrid Cloud Powered by OpenStack & GCE at Gartner Symposium
IT leaders across industries face immense challenges. On the one hand, they must deliver game-changing capabilities that utilize big data and analytics. At the same time they are expected to drive...
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Havana: OpenStack Continues Its March Toward Dominance
The OpenStack train keeps rolling, picking up steam. Today’s Havana release is a remarkable achievement for the Foundation which only recently had its first birthday.Some stats from the Havana release,...
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[VIDEO] Cloud Connect Chicago: OpenStack Roundup
If crowd size and quality of audience participation are any indication, the OpenStack community in Chicago is keenly interested in the project, and they’re actively engaged in learning more. Randy...
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Live From Hong Kong: State of the (Open)Stack, v2
If you want to know what’s new with OpenStack – new projects, code maturity, community growth, user stats and more – you’ll want to tune in for my live presentation of State of the (Open)Stack. I’ll...
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Neutron in Production: Work in Progress or Ready for Prime Time?
Earlier this week, we hosted an OpenStack Meetup at the offices of our customer, EVault, here in San Francisco. Titled “Neutron Networking and SDN in Production,” the Meetup featured panelists from...
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2013 Was YEAR ONE for OpenStack
It’s useful for all in the OpenStack community to remember that many believe OpenStack was not ready for prime time until Essex or possibly Folsom. Some might even claim Grizzly was the first true...
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OCS 2.6 is Now Available !
OpenStack is a powerful way of providing and consuming IaaS to achieve scale and agility, but its very nature as an open source project raises IT management challenges. Removing some of the...
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