VMware is not necessarily known as a company that thoroughly embraces open source, but one of its top CTOs says OpenStack could play an important role as a standard in the cloud computing market. The ...

Rackspace launched its OpenStack open source cloud computing platform earlier this year to a great deal of fanfare and whispers that it could represent a major shift in the cloud computing landscape.

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) ancestor, was already around, and Microsoft launched Azure in February 2010. But even though these depended on Linux and other open-source ...

A survey of OpenStack users, done by members of the OpenStack Foundation has found that Ubuntu is by far the most widely used operating system with OpenStack, not Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS ...

What makes OpenStack so popular? Howie Xu, who's worked in virtual switching at Cisco, Big Switch, and VMware, took a look at the platform with fresh eyes and shared You mentioned that going to an ...

OpenStack Swift allows users to store and retrieve large amounts of data with a simple API. Built for scale and optimized for durability, availability and concurrency across the entire data set, Swift ...

As the recent uproar over the Amazon outage cast in bold relief, Amazon Web Services has become the de facto standard for IaaS in the public cloud. While companies such as VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, ...

One of the major decisions faced by channel partners adopting cloud business models involves whether to focus completely on public cloud offerings or to adopt a private cloud strategy that enables ...