The OpenStack cloud platform works well for companies that aim to deploy software or infrastructure as a service but remain wary of doing so using public cloud services. Here's how to find out if ...

Last week’s OpenStack Summit left me with some strong impressions, along with some questions and reservations. The bottom line: If you’re an enterprise CIO, OpenStack is going to be very ...

When OpenStack was originally launched, founders trumpeted its use of the Apache license, citing the license’s flexibility, which would let OpenStack providers modify the product for competitive ...

Aubuchon said that they use NoSQL databasing and OpenStack tools that allow them to sift through metadata. “The key,” he elaborated, “is that we have an infrastructure with OpenStack that we ...

OpenStack knows the aggregate amount of storage and RAM and CPU processing power available. Driven by the business logic software that ensures applications are performed in the most effective and cost ...

Vendors use OpenStack to “integrate it into their own commercial products and offer sales and support to their customers.” So in a sense, OpenStack is not a direct competitor of VMware but ...

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.

How to Secure an OpenStack Cloud Providing security in OpenStack is not as easy as simply deploying a firewall and enabling antivirus; many additional controls need to be deployed, Clark said.

The demise of Nebula indicates that delivering OpenStack via a hardware appliance was bound to fail in the long run Nebula, maker of a hardware-based OpenStack turnkey solution, closed its doors ...