Category Archives: OpenStack

Pixeom raises $15M for its software-defined edge computing platform

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Pixeom, a startup that offers a software-defined edge computing platform to enterprises, today announced that it has raised a $15M funding round from Intel Capital, National Grid Partners and previous investor Samsung Catalyst Fund. The company plans to use the new funding to expands its go-to-market capacity and invest in product development. If the Pixeom […] Continue reading Pixeom raises $15M for its software-defined edge computing platform→

Open-source communities fight over telco market

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When you think of MWC Barcelona, chances are you’re thinking about the newest smartphones and other mobile gadgets, but that’s only half the story. Actually, it’s probably far less than half the story because the majority of the business that’s done at MWC is enterprise telco business. Not too long ago, that business was all […] Continue reading Open-source communities fight over telco market→

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds etcd to its open-source stable

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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the open-source home of projects like Kubernetes and Vitess, today announced that its technical committee has voted to bring a new project on board. That project is etcd, the distributed key-value store that was first developed by CoreOS (now owned by Red Hat, which in turn will soon be […] Continue reading The Cloud Native Computing Foundation adds etcd to its open-source stable→

Overcoming OpenStack Obstacles for vCDN at the Edge

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Akamai and Wind River have collaborated to provide a validated, joint solution for virtual CDN services delivered with the reliability, scalability, and edge-optimized footprint that are required for cost-effective deployments in telecom networks….
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Overcoming OpenStack Obstacles for vCDN at the Edge

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Akamai and Wind River have collaborated to provide a validated, joint solution for virtual CDN services delivered with the reliability, scalability, and edge-optimized footprint that are required for cost-effective deployments in telecom networks…. Continue reading Overcoming OpenStack Obstacles for vCDN at the Edge→

Pulumi raises $15M for its infrastructure as code platform

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Pulumi, a Seattle-based startup that lets developers specify and manage their cloud infrastructure using the programming language they already know, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Madrona Venture Group. Tola Capital also participated in this round and Tola managing director Sheila Gulati will get a seat […] Continue reading Pulumi raises $15M for its infrastructure as code platform→

OpenStack’s latest release focuses on bare metal clouds and easier upgrades

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The OpenStack Foundation today released the 18th version of its namesake open-source cloud infrastructure software. The project has had its ups and downs, but it remains the de facto standard for running and managing large private clouds. What’s been interesting to watch over the years is how the project’s releases have mirrored what’s been happening in the […] Continue reading OpenStack’s latest release focuses on bare metal clouds and easier upgrades→

OpenStack in transition

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OpenStack is one of the most important and complex open-source projects you’ve never heard of. It’s a set of tools that allows large enterprises ranging from Comcast and PayPal to stock exchanges and telecom providers to run their own AWS-like cloud services inside their data centers. Only a few years ago, there was a lot of […] Continue reading OpenStack in transition→

OpenStack spins out its Zuul open source CI/CD platform

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There are few open source projects as complex as OpenStack, which essentially provides large companies with all the tools to run the equivalent of the core AWS services in their own data centers. To build OpenStack’s various systems the team also had to develop some of its own devops tools, and in 2012, that meant […] Continue reading OpenStack spins out its Zuul open source CI/CD platform→

Heptio launches an open source load balancer for Kubernetes and OpenStack

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Heptio is one of the more interesting companies in the container ecosystem. In part, that’s due to the simple fact that it was founded by Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, two of the three engineers behind the original Kubernetes project, but also because of the technology it’s developing and the large amount of funding it […] Continue reading Heptio launches an open source load balancer for Kubernetes and OpenStack→