The focus on this release is to make OpenStack easier to deploy. OpenStack, which has tried to be all things to all cloud users, had become both very powerful and very difficult to install and manage.

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OpenStack allows enterprises to manage their own AWS-like private clouds on-premises. Even after 29 releases, it’s still among the most active open source projects in the world and this week, the ...

Back in 2010, Rackspace and NASA launched a project called OpenStack, which was meant to become an open source option for running an AWS-style cloud inside of private data centers. The two companies ...

Hone your OpenStack skills with a full deployment in a single virtual machine. It's hard to go anywhere these days without hearing something about the urgent need to deploy on-premises cloud ...

If you want headlines, just commit $1 billion to something. IBM has done that again and again, and Cisco did it in March. Now HP is running that play, attempting to grab attention in the world of ...

What layer of software is ultimately going to be in control of the fabric of compute, storage, and networking that organizations all over the world have been gradually building? Will it be OpenStack, ...

The battle between competing cloud-computing standards has caused a rupture in the open-cloud movement. Citrix, one of the primary cloud vendors, has discontinued contributing software projects to ...

A few weeks ago I was mystified when Marten Mickos, CEO of the open-source, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) private cloud program Eucalyptus, announced that he wanted to be a contributor to ...

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