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OpenStack allows enterprises to manage their own AWS-like private clouds on-premises. Even after 29 releases, it’s still among the most active open source projects in the world and this week, the ...

A few years ago, Red Hat, Inc. and Cisco Systems, Inc. partnered with a vision of an application-centric infrastructure based on open-source platforms. One of the goals of the collaboration was to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I focus on disruptive trends in technology and cloud computing. One of the more vocal opponents to VMware's involvement in ...

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 ...

If you want headlines, just commit $1 billion to something. IBM has done that again and again, and Cisco did it in March. Now HP is running that play, attempting to grab attention in the world of ...

Search-to-cloud giant Google has nailed its flag firmly to the OpenStack mast by today signing up as a corporate sponsor of the cloud-computing software platform. OpenStack is an open-source project ...

Here is a cool fact for you: the original version of OpenStack was published on Joshua McKenty’s blog. When OpenStack launched Nova, there were some 6,000 lines of code. OpenStack now has over 1.25 ...

No matter if users had dozens, or thousands, of CPU cores in their cloud, most preferrred Ubuntu. It was followed by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone CentOS, which is now part of the Red Hat ...

Joshua McKenty is CEO of Piston Cloud, an enterprise cloud software company. He was the founding technical architect of NASA's Nebula cloud computing platform. According to the OpenStack website, it ...

Last week's ugly split between OpenStack and Citrix highlights the high stakes in establishing a dominant open source orchestration layer for cloud computing For some time, I’ve been fascinated by ...