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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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Rackspace enhances private cloud offering

Posted March 6, 2013 - 12:47 pm

Rackspace, the major public cloud provider, is not ignoring private clouds.
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IBM says OpenStack will be central to its future cloud strategy

Posted March 4, 2013 - 9:44 pm

Already a platinum member of the cloud operating system platform OpenStack, IBM officials said open source code from the project will be the foundation of the company's cloud strategy moving forward, including a new product it announced today.
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Huawei launches OpenStack-powered cloud aimed service providers

Posted February 27, 2013 - 9:26 am

Chinese telecom giant Huawei announces FusionCloud, an OpenStack-powered cloud aimed mostly at carrier providers.
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Piston CEO: loads of companies are switching from public to private clouds

Posted February 4, 2013 - 4:44 pm

Piston's CEO said that companies are leaving public cloud services because they aren't that cost effective and the customer service stinks.
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