OpenStack is leading the way to a standards-based cloud, an even marketplace, and an adaptive IT business model. Here are three ways to get involved with OpenStack: Attend an OpenStack event.

Anyone attending the latest May 2014 OpenStack Summit in Atlanta can be excused for thinking that OpenStack is taking over the universe or at least the planet of cloud computing. Over 4500 ...

OpenStack makes all this possible because it's open source, and so works like Linux itself. In fact, some people refer to it as the Linux of cloud computing.

OpenStack, on the other hand, is developed in the open and doesn't have a proprietary component. Q. So there's more than one component to OpenStack? A. Yes, there are actually three.

At the OpenStack Summit 2017, I slunk into a session entitled "What is OpenStack?" to get the basics about the open source cloud software.

The latest bi-annual survey data of OpenStack users shows the continued march of the open source cloud software into mainstream of enterprises, but also reveals the project’s continued ...

OpenStack turns five this year, and the project has come a long way in its short life so far. Last year brought major improvements in areas such as upgradeability between versions and overall ...

“VMware Integrated OpenStack is really about how to make OpenStack shrink-wrapped so IT departments — which are using our technology anyway — can make an OpenStack cloud,” Kumar says.

The competitive OpenStack landscape Of course, IBM’s plan to make the latest, unvarnished OpenStack bits core to all its cloud offerings is only one approach.

To help firms identify expert staff more easily and raise skill levels, the OpenStack Foundation has today unveiled the first qualification in its professional certification scheme.

To this point, OpenStack was largely KVM- and Xen-focused. VMware had been another OpenStack holdout, but it joined the effort last summer (or should I say, jumped on the bandwagon).

In the strange and sometimes ridiculous parlance that technologists have created for themselves, a stack is a collection of technologies that interoperate with one another to provide a platform ...