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There is little question regarding the prevalence and significance of open source software in enterprise IT, but one of the best places to more deeply examine open source software and how it fits into ...

Today, the OpenStack Foundation is launching the latest version of its platform that allows enterprises to run an AWS-like cloud computing platform in their data centers. Ocata, as the 15th release of ...

Can a vendor consortium cooperatively develop a cloud operating system without going off track? The new OpenStack Foundation and a small army of developers aim to find out The OpenStack project got ...

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst argued that enterprise software vendors are at an inflection point where they'll adapt or falter, noted OpenStack is keeper but needs enterprise support and Hadoop has ...

A recent survey found 85.8 percent of telecoms consider OpenStack to be essential or important to their success. That's not bad for an open-source cloud some people still think isn't ready for ...

Cloud computing infrastructure project OpenStack’s new release, “Havana,” its eighth major release overall, emerged from beta today with a wealth of new features. Many of those are courtesy of — and ...

Deploying OpenStack Neutron for NFV, requires a risk-free Neutron module and plugin means validating a number of protocols, network domains and security parameters ...

Rackspace expects to soon announce commercial private OpenStack distributions that it will support as part of its Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition set of services. Rackspace launched Rackspace Cloud: ...

The hubbub of the week in the cloud is a scathing Wall Street Journal article that accuses Red Hat of playing “Hardball on OpenStack Software,” but analysts say the accusations made by the paper more ...