With major vendors such as Dell, HP, IBM and RackSpace throwing their weight behind OpenStack, the project is poised to be a preeminent private cloud player. But discussions at the recent OpenStack ...

VMware is not necessarily known as a company that thoroughly embraces open source, but one of its top CTOs says OpenStack could play an important role as a standard in the cloud computing market. The ...

A survey of OpenStack users, done by members of the OpenStack Foundation has found that Ubuntu is by far the most widely used operating system with OpenStack, not Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS ...

What makes OpenStack so popular? Howie Xu, who's worked in virtual switching at Cisco, Big Switch, and VMware, took a look at the platform with fresh eyes and shared You mentioned that going to an ...

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) ancestor, was already around, and Microsoft launched Azure in February 2010. But even though these depended on Linux and other open-source ...

Red Hat offers a number of major infrastructure platforms, with offerings like the Ansible automation service, the Kubernetes-based OpenShift container platform and the OpenStack platform for those ...

VMware wants to bring enterprise-class reliability to OpenStack by releasing a distribution of cloud hosting software that runs on top of the virtualization stack. “There’s a lot of interest as ...

As the recent uproar over the Amazon outage cast in bold relief, Amazon Web Services has become the de facto standard for IaaS in the public cloud. While companies such as VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, ...

Cisco’s intention to buy Piston Cloud Computing and IBM’s acquisition of Blue Box Group, both announced this week, are bids to make private cloud platform OpenStack less of a headache for IT ...

The vendor will remain committed to OpenStack until “I turn off the last LTE [virtualized network function] that’s running on it," exec Ian Hood said. Hood’s commitment comes on the heels of Red Hat ...