The total revenue is small potatoes compared to Amazon Web Services (AWS), but the growth rate is great. 451 observed that so far OpenStack-based revenue has been overwhelmingly from service providers ...

OpenStack, the open source cloud software provider, celebrates it's third birthday on July 19th. As with all things disruptive, the open-source "cloud operating system" started off enabling many under ...

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.

Today, the OpenStack Foundation is launching the latest version of its platform that allows enterprises to run an AWS-like cloud computing platform in their data centers. Ocata, as the 15th release of ...

Dell's launch of Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution Infrastructure-as-a-Serivce comes as customers look for alternatives to proprietary, licensed software cloud models, John Igoe, executive director of ...

SUSE, which probably is best known for its Linux distribution, has long been a quiet but persistent player in the OpenStack ecosystem. Over the last few months, though, the German company has also ...

Piston Cloud Computing was one of the darlings of the OpenStack movement. A founding father of the cloud computing project, it produced one of the first private cloud products based on the open source ...

Look out Amazon. OpenStack is shaping up to be a game changer in the cloud world. On Thursday Atlanta-based Internap Network Services announced the launch of the first public cloud built on OpenStack.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover how technology helps business compete. Two of the most interesting open source cloud initiatives of recent years have been ...

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, ...

The biggest news I see coming out of OpenStack Summit this week is the announcement of the OpenStack Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) training and certification. OpenStack is a collection of ...

Following a four-month beta period, Rackspace has started offering its hosted servers and databases using the open source OpenStack suite of cloud software. That OpenStack has been pressed into ...