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 Mellanox announced its 10 and 40GbE NIC will support the new Microsoft Open CloudServer (OCS) specification version 2. The OCS specification version 2 includes significant new performance ...

That design, "="">" is "our next generation hyperscale cloud hardware design," said company officials in an October 31 blog post. "We're taking a very different approach by contributing our next ...

Just because computing and storage are commodities does not mean, by any stretch of the imagination, that they are inexpensive. What it does mean is that these are raw materials that can be bought and ...

The OpenStack project has developed into an open-source cloud platform that can be deployed on-premise and encompasses all the major cloud computing components, including storage. Meanwhile, ...

The OpenStack foundation is holding a summit in Hong Kong this week, and a barrage of vendors used the event to roll out new products and upgrades of existing ones designed to further integrate with ...

Cisco on Monday unveiled a refresh of its networking equipment line with a new focus on 40-Gigabit Ethernet, cloud-to-cloud management, open source networking and software-defined networking (SDN).

In yet another example of how distributed systems sometimes work better than centralized ones, the hardware engineers at Microsoft have come up with a new battery-backed power supply for their ...

Open-Mesh is a brand of wireless Internet controllers and routers. Open-Mesh routers are used to provide cloud-server based Internet access in large indoor settings such as multistory office buildings ...