OpenStack networking today Two specific uses cases have led to improvements in OpenStack networking performance, but with compromises: single-root IO virtualization (SR-IOV) and Data Plane ...

Vying to become de facto standards in OpenStack Networking, Midokura and Akanda are each offering their code to the open source community.

Astara aims to clean up the confusion and make multi-vendor networking solutions play nice. Astara’s mission: to provide OpenStack cloud operators with a vendor-agnostic network orchestration platform ...

Hot on the heels of the latest iteration of OpenStack hitting general availability, Akanda Inc. is releasing an upgrade to its complementary network orchestration service that promises to greatly ...

They say OpenStack is ready for prime time deployment in the enterprise – as long as you understand the potential pitfalls and impediments.

Neutron’s role evolves in OpenStack networks We examine the progress of Neutron, OpenStack’s cloud networking module By Andre Kindness and Lauren E Nelson.

OpenStack has an impressive list of corporate backers. Red Hat, Rackspace, HP, IBM and AT&T are contributing thousands of lines of code to the open source project and helping deliver an updated ...

OpenStack backers say Folsom continues to improve the usability and stability of the existing code and includes 185 new features to the project, most notably in virtual networking. It also comes ...

The open-source OpenStack cloud platform is getting a security boost today thanks to software-defined networking (SDN) vendor PLUMgrid. PLUMgrid’s new OpenStack Networking Suite is an attempt to ...

As a four-year-old company, PLUMgrid, Inc. has big dreams of bringing OpenStack networking into the mainstream. “We provide networking in software. If you’ve heard of overlay networking ...