HPE gears its updated Helion OpenStack distribution toward telcos

hpe_container HPE is in an interesting position. Now that it has shut down its Helion public cloud business, its main focus is on its private and managed cloud services, which center around the open source OpenStack cloud platform that’s pretty much the de facto standard for building private clouds now. HPE launched version 4.0 of its Helion OpenStack platform for enterprises this week. With… Read More Continue reading HPE gears its updated Helion OpenStack distribution toward telcos

A maturing OpenStack looks to the future

img_20161025_084640 OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform that allows enterprises to essentially run their own version of AWS in their data centers, was founded by NASA and Rackspace in 2010. Today, it’s being used by the likes of Comcast, PayPal, Volkswagen, CERN, AT&T, China Mobile and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs in the U.K. The OpenStack Foundation’s bi-annual… Read More Continue reading A maturing OpenStack looks to the future

OpenStack’s latest release focuses on scalability and resilience

openstack_planet-1-of-1 OpenStack, the massive open source project that helps enterprises run the equivalent of AWS in their own data centers, is launching the 14th major version of its software today. Newton, as this new version is called, shows how OpenStack has matured over the last few years. The focus this time is on making some of the core OpenStack services more scalable and resilient. In addition, though,… Read More Continue reading OpenStack’s latest release focuses on scalability and resilience

AppFormix now helps enterprises monitor and optimize their virtualized networks

cloud computing gears AppFormix helps enterprises, including the likes of Rackspace and its customers, monitor and optimize their OpenStack- and container-based clouds. The company today announced that it has also now added support for virtualized network functions (VNF) to its service. Traditionally, networking was the domain of highly specialized hardware, but increasingly, its commodity hardware and software… Read More Continue reading AppFormix now helps enterprises monitor and optimize their virtualized networks

Mirantis and SUSE team up to give OpenStack users new support options

IMG_20160809_103941 Mirantis, which specializes in offering software, support and training for running OpenStack, today announced that it is partnering with Germany-based SUSE, best known for its Linux distribution, to offer its customers support for SUSE’s enterprise Linux offering. The two companies also said that they will work on making SUSE Linux Enterprise Server a development platform for use… Read More Continue reading Mirantis and SUSE team up to give OpenStack users new support options

OpenStack will soon be able to run in containers on top of Kubernetes

Aerial view of container terminal OpenStack, the open source project that allows enterprises to run an AWS-like cloud computing service in their own data centers, added support for containers over the course of its last few releases. Running OpenStack itself on top of containers is a different problem, though. Even though CoreOS has done some work on running OpenStack in containers thanks to its oddly named… Read More Continue reading OpenStack will soon be able to run in containers on top of Kubernetes

Cray’s latest supercomputer runs OpenStack and open source big data tools

Cray Urika-GX super computer Cray has always been associated with speed and power and its latest computing beast called the Cray Urika-GX system has been designed specifically for big data workloads. What’s more, it runs on OpenStack, the open source cloud platform and supports open source big data processing tools like Hadoop and Spark. Cray recognizes that the computing world had evolved since Seymour Cray… Read More Continue reading Cray’s latest supercomputer runs OpenStack and open source big data tools

CoreOS’s Stackanetes lets you use Kubernetes to run OpenStack in containers

Container CoreOS today announced Stackanetes at the OpenStack Summit in Austin. Stackanetes (and yes, that name probably isn’t ideal) brings together OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform that allows enterprises to run their own AWS-style cloud computing services in their private and public clouds, and Kubernetes, Google’s open source container management service. The… Read More Continue reading CoreOS’s Stackanetes lets you use Kubernetes to run OpenStack in containers

Rackspace brings AppFormix’s cloud optimization platform to its private cloud

AppFormix_Grid Rackspace today announced that it is partnering with AppFormix to bring that company’s cloud monitoring and performance optimization tools to its private OpenStack cloud customers.
Thanks to this partnership, Rackspace will now license AppFormix’s tools and bring it to all of its private cloud customers who use Rackspace to manage their clouds. This will give them access to… Read More Continue reading Rackspace brings AppFormix’s cloud optimization platform to its private cloud