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by Nancy Gohring

Nancy Gohring is a freelance journalist who has been covering tech, including cloud computing and the mobile industry, for more than a decade.

Interoperability question shows OpenStack growing pains

Posted Apr 17, 2013 - 07:00 am

A panel discussion during the OpenStack Summit about interoperability issues shows that the community recognizes how important the issue is, but hasn't quite figured out how to handle it
Comcast, Best Buy take the wraps off OpenStack implementations

Posted Apr 16, 2013 - 04:58 pm

Comcast and Best Buy are talking about their OpenStack implementations for the first time.
Immaturity holding back OpenStack deployments

Posted Apr 16, 2013 - 02:48 pm

Attendees at the OpenStack Summit say that businesses worry about using OpenStack because it currently takes too much work to implement
Rackspace launches new business, hopes to build network of clouds around the world

Posted Apr 15, 2013 - 12:01 am

Rackspace is entering a new business that will build and maintain clouds for service providers like telcos
New OpenStack initiative could address interoperability questions

Posted Apr 10, 2013 - 04:00 pm

There is some debate over which OpenStack clouds are truly interoperable, but a new project could help clear up differences
OpenStack to start cracking down on incompatible clouds

Posted Apr 09, 2013 - 07:18 pm

The OpenStack Foundation is starting to get serious about making sure that cloud services are truly interoperable if they want to call their services OpenStack.
Piston CTO: 'Giant explosion of businesses moving off AWS'

Posted Apr 09, 2013 - 06:00 am

Piston co-founder Josh McKenty said businesses are fleeing AWS and while some surely are leaving, 'giant explosion' is surely an overstatement.
OpenStack spins up 700 test clouds a day -- on donated HP and Rackspace time

Posted Apr 04, 2013 - 11:00 am

OpenStack is releasing the latest version of the cloud stack this week and is talking about testing, contributors and the future.
Turns out, there already is a cloud for spooks

Posted Apr 01, 2013 - 03:26 pm

The NSA revealed it is running an OpenStack cloud
It’s the network, stupid

Posted Mar 28, 2013 - 09:00 am

Cloud service providers that also own the network will have a distinct advantage over competitors

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