Q. OK, but why is OpenStack any different? A. There are several reasons why OpenStack is different and worthy of your attention. The first is that it really is open source. Each component has been ...

According to research carried out by analyst outfit 451 Group, running an OpenStack deployment is currently more expensive than buying in cloud services from VMware, Red Hat or Microsoft. This is ...

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I've been watching the open source cloud initiative OpenStack since its inception around five years ago. I've taken part in some events around the initiative culminating recently in my attendance at ...

Six years ago over two days engineers from Rackspace and NASA met in Austin, Texas, for the very first OpenStack Summit. Six years later, OpenStack is returning to its roots. As it does so, OpenStack ...

Out today, OpenStack's latest release, Liberty, takes up where predecessor Kilo left off, with improved management features. But it also adds an important advance in the Nova compute project, with the ...

VMware provides its own integrated release of OpenStack, the open-source cloud operating system. It’s a product you may not realise VMware packages up. iTWire spoke to VMware’s Mahesh Kumar to learn ...

With a host of new features, the launch this week of OpenStack's Juno is again raising questions about the impact of the cloud platform's frequent releases on its stability. The OpenStack open-source ...

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“VMware Integrated OpenStack is really about how to make OpenStack shrink-wrapped so IT departments — which are using our technology anyway — can make an OpenStack cloud,” Kumar says. “We have ...