A recent survey found 85.8 percent of telecoms consider OpenStack to be essential or important to their success. That's not bad for an open-source cloud some people still think isn't ready for ...

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 ...

The San Antonio-based cloud giant on Monday unveiled its network of Certified Deployment Partners. At its launch, the network of partners includes systems integrators CloudTP, MomentumSI and TeamSun.

Tesora today announced its Database as a Service (DBaaS) offering for the OpenStack cloud platform. Tesora DBaaS Platform Enterprise Edition is the first enterprise-ready commercial product stemming ...

While hyperscalers and HPC centers like the bleeding edge – their very existence commands that they be on it – enterprises are a more conservative lot. No IT supplier ever went broke counting on ...

Cloud-infrastructure startup Nebula envisions a day when every company will be able to implement cloud computing as easily as plugging into a an electrical utility. By taking advantage of open source ...

Although a small-scale OpenStack private cloud appears cheaper on paper, when skill costs are factored in it may work out more expensive than proprietary alternatives. OpenStack distributions cost on ...

Online marketplace eBay runs one of its most crucial workloads – its website – on an OpenStack private cloud platform developed by itself. Three years ago, eBay’s website was operated fully in its ...

Last month we explored the pros and cons of open-source OpenStack, a platform I admittedly love, but which is not meant for everyone (for reasons laid out in that post). Today the topic shifts to ...

Oracle has made Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux distribution generally available so customers can use it with the company's own version of Linux and virtual machine (VM) services. The software also ...

Cisco is continuing its software acquisition tear by unveiling plans on Tuesday to buy OpenStack specialist Piston Cloud Computing to accelerate the networking giant's ambitious Intercloud strategy, ...

The problem with both the open source OpenStack cloud controller and its analog in the VMware world, formerly known as vCloud and now known as vRealize, is that neither of these tools have the look ...