Server virtualisation has transformed the datacentre, spurring growth and consolidation in x86 workloads. And as virtualised infrastructures have matured, the ecosystem surrounding them has moved to ...

The OpenStack platform is an open-source collaboration to develop a private cloud ecosystem, delivering IT services at web scale. OpenStack is divided into a number of discrete projects, each with a ...

Rackspace has relinquished the reigns of the OpenStack code to an independent foundation and has made significant progress on its own commercial plans. At OpenStack Summit Wednesday, one Rackspace ...

Storage is one of the key building blocks of clouds, and so it was no surprise that storage technology was a key part of the recent OpenStack Summit. Several vendors used the conference to show a ...

While innovators in the HPC and hyperscale arenas usually have the talent and often have the desire to get into the code for the tools that they use to create their infrastructure, most enterprises ...

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 ...

At the time I got into the data storage industry, I was working with and developing RAID and JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) controllers for 2 Gbit Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SAN). This was a ...

Hewlett-Packard expanded its software-defined storage strategy Friday with several additions to its storage lineup targeting virtualized and cloud environments, with a particular emphasis on OpenStack ...

This is a highly scalable, open-source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform. It's designed to deploy, scale, and manage private cloud, public cloud, and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) ...

OpenStack is becoming the de facto standard for infrastructure orchestration for NFV deployment by leading Communications Service Providers (CSPs). CSPs are trading off the challenges of OpenStack ...