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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dell, Intel and Chinese venture firm back OpenStack consultancy Mirantis for $10M

Posted January 10, 2013 - 9:52 pm

Two big names in the OpenStack movement -- Dell and Intel -- have thrown money behind a consultancy that has carved a niche out helping users deploy the open source cloud platform.
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Open source cloud battles: OpenStack leveling off as CloudStack interest gains

Posted January 7, 2013 - 5:46 pm

OpenStack is the largest and most active open source cloud computing project, but interest in the platform has leveled off in the last quarter as momentum for competing project CloudStack continues to build.
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Technologies to watch 2013: OpenStack cloud backers hope 2013 is the year of user adoption

Posted January 2, 2013 - 11:53 am

In the cloud computing market, there are a handful of major vendors. Most agree Amazon Web Services is a market leader on the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) side, but Microsoft, Google and younger companies like Joyent are looking to dethrone AWS. And then there's OpenStack, which is for almost everyone else.
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EMC joins OpenStack, likens it to Linux development

Posted December 12, 2012 - 12:11 pm

Looking to stay up to date on the latest trends in the cloud computing world, EMC today became an official sponsor of OpenStack.
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Consultancy launches DIY cloud, OpenStack-style

Posted December 11, 2012 - 12:42 pm

A series of support options from cloud consultancy Mirantis helps customers launch test or full-scale deployments of OpenStack-powered clouds.
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HP makes public cloud service official; bolsters hypervisor support

Posted December 5, 2012 - 1:15 pm

HP is taking the beta label off its public cloud and making it generally available today, along some other features that are part of its converged cloud strategy.
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