The ongoing effort to make OpenStack easier to deploy and maintain has received an assist from an unexpected source: CoreOS and its new Stackanetes project, announced today at the OpenStack Summit in ...

Moving technology services to the cloud has become commonplace over the last few years. But as government agencies weigh the pros and cons of various big-name cloud providers, another option has begun ...

OpenStack developers have taken their first key steps to reduce interdependencies between the different parts of OpenStack, allowing some of the pieces to be more easily used individually and ...

At the OpenStack Summit today, Red Hat announced RDO, “a freely available, community-supported distribution of OpenStack that runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and their derivatives.” In ...

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, ...

At its core, OpenStack is an operating system that builds public or private clouds. But OpenStack is a platform, it’s not just one piece of software that’s downloaded and installed to – voila! – build ...

This post provides a high level overview of various components of OpenStack, thereby setting stage for more in depth discussions in subsequent posts. With the buzz around Folsom release and the ...

The OpenStack Foundation has released Ocata, the 15 th iteration of the popular open source cloud platform. The latest release has focused on enhancing core compute and networking services and ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural journey of porting a hit VR title to seven non-VR platforms. He explains ...

The software-defined datacentre represents the current phase in the evolution of IT delivery to the business. It is an approach largely driven by virtualisation and the rise of VMware -- and to a ...