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What the man behind HP's new internal IT plan has in mind

Posted April 23, 2013 - 11:43 am

As someone who spent billions with HP over 20 years while in IT leadership roles at Boeing and Verizon Wireless, John Hinshaw knew the big hardware, software and services company from the outside as well as anyone. In the year and a half since becoming executive vice president of technology and operations at HP, he's been putting that knowledge to use on the inside.
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How OpenStack should prepare itself for the enterprise

Posted April 22, 2013 - 3:27 pm

With major vendors such as Dell, HP, IBM and RackSpace throwing their weight behind OpenStack, the project is poised to be a preeminent private cloud player. But discussions at the recent OpenStack Summit show that the project does have some growing up to do before it gets there.
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PayPal dodges VMware question -- again -- but sheds light on OpenStack implementation

Posted April 18, 2013 - 2:17 pm

The company didn't clarify recent reports suggesting that it will dump VMware, but it did share some insight into its new OpenStack cloud
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Physicists link OpenStack, Nimbus clouds around the world to share resources

Posted April 18, 2013 - 12:28 pm

Particle physicists need huge computing resources but for relatively short periods of time. They've already started linking their clouds so they can better share those resources when they aren't being used.
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U.S. intelligence agencies embrace OpenStack

Posted April 17, 2013 - 1:38 pm

The NSA is already running a production OpenStack cloud and said it's about to share it with all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies
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HubSpot latest to leave Amazon Web Services -- mostly. Should Amazon worry?

Posted April 17, 2013 - 9:00 am

HubSpot announced at the OpenStack Summit that it built a private OpenStack cloud to take over some work it was running on Amazon Web Services
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Interoperability question shows OpenStack growing pains

Posted April 17, 2013 - 7:00 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
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Comcast, Best Buy take the wraps off OpenStack implementations

Posted April 16, 2013 - 4:58 pm

Comcast and Best Buy are talking about their OpenStack implementations for the first time.
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Red Hat advances enterprise OpenStack distro to early adopter program

Posted April 16, 2013 - 4:21 pm

Red Hat Distribution for OpenStack, or RDO, is designed to provide a place for the community to add upstream features to Red Hat's enterprise OpenStack distribution, similar to the role the open source Fedora Project plays for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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Immaturity holding back OpenStack deployments

Posted April 16, 2013 - 2:48 pm

Attendees at the OpenStack Summit say that businesses worry about using OpenStack because it currently takes too much work to implement
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OpenStack gains momentum as vendors give Grizzly a bear hug

Posted April 16, 2013 - 11:40 am

HP, NetApp, and an array of cloud startups roll out new cloud offerings built around OpenStack Grizzly
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Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop

Posted April 16, 2013 - 11:25 am

The software program, called Savanna, will make it easier to deploy Apache Hadoop on an OpenStack cloud service
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OpenStack grows up: But is it grown up enough for enterprise IT?

Posted April 15, 2013 - 9:49 am

Less than a year ago the cool thing for IT vendors to do was jump on the OpenStack bandwagon.
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Rackspace launches new business, hopes to build network of clouds around the world

Posted April 15, 2013 - 12:01 am

Rackspace is entering a new business that will build and maintain clouds for service providers like telcos
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Nebula - A turnkey private cloud brought to you by NASA

Posted April 12, 2013 - 8:00 am

What began as a NASA cloud computing project, and in partnership with Rackspace resulted in the OpenStack project, has now become a turnkey private cloud system for the enterprise. What this means is you can now buy an all-in-one solution to your organization's server needs and be up and running in no time.
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New OpenStack initiative could address interoperability questions

Posted April 10, 2013 - 4:00 pm

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

Posted April 9, 2013 - 7:18 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.
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Piston CTO: 'Giant explosion of businesses moving off AWS'

Posted April 9, 2013 - 6:00 am

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

Posted April 4, 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.
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How Intel built its own private cloud

Posted April 2, 2013 - 11:52 am

Intel not only embraces cloud computing and the technology behind it, the company uses it in a big way.
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Turns out, there already is a cloud for spooks

Posted April 1, 2013 - 3:26 pm

The NSA revealed it is running an OpenStack cloud
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Rackspace program looks to 'seed' cloud workforce

Posted March 19, 2013 - 12:10 pm

Rackspace's Open Cloud Academy is a training program to teach skills in various open source areas, such as OpenStack, Hadoop and Linux, with a specific focus on cloud computing.
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Oracle acquires Nimbula for hybrid cloud software

Posted March 13, 2013 - 3:00 pm

With the intent of rounding out its software stack for building hybrid clouds, Oracle is acquiring Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software.
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Cloud computing's big debt to NASA

Posted March 8, 2013 - 7:08 am

IBM is betting big on OpenStack, deeply rooted in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's ingenuity
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How many is too many public OpenStack cloud services?

Posted March 7, 2013 - 10:00 am

There's enough competition on the horizon that I predict soon enough we'll be wondering if there's too much competition
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