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The co-creator of OpenStack will be certified by Red Hat as a provider of management services for OpenStack deployments based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
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The world fares so much better when the warfare stops. Yesterday's partnership agreement between Linux leader Red Hat and that other operating system leader Microsoft could remove the biggest cultural and political obstruction to the evolution of data center and server technology.
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The growth rate in the adoption of cloud platforms by businesses is too slow.
That’s the message that was explicitly delivered by Intel today during a press briefing to unveil its newest partnership with cloud platform provider Rackspace.
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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 for running services and applications.
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“Just because you can start using containers doesn’t mean that you should,” said the lone woman on the OpenStack panel of experts. She is Caroline McCrory, vice president of business development for Cloudsoft, a cloud orchestration platform maker. But McCrory isn't alone.
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The keynote address Monday at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver — where the world’s data center admins and engineers discuss the evolution of the data center — was ostensibly about “Connecting the Clouds to Create Huge Value.
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The distinction between an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform and a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform used to be clear and consistent. You would deploy services on an IaaS that you would otherwise deploy on your own servers, whereas you would produce custom applications to be run from a PaaS.
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Put your money on hybrid cloud computing — and Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Rackspace. But be forewarned: Security (or lack thereof) is still a concern and one of the chief reasons for underuse of cloud resources. The findings, contained in RightScale’s State of the Cloud Report for 2015
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Enterprise computing needs some new mojo — and if Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz and his crew have their way, it will first be built — and then found — atop their brand of Cloud Foundry.
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Unless you’ve had your ears plugged and your eyes closed for the past few years, you know that we’re quickly moving away from computing’s 2nd Era and onto the 3rd.
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Big Blue announces a series of steps that build on its SoftLayer acquisition with the release of new cloud-based business services. In June, IBM spent US$ 2 billion buying cloud computing firm SoftLayer to help boost its ability to deliver services, and these new announcements feature the roll out of
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Using Cloud Foundry IBM continues to play in the open source and cloud space, this time with the announcement that it is teaming up with EMC spin-off Pivotal to develop technologies that will enable Cloud Foundry’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to work with IBM’s technology, as well as the OpenStack IaaS cloud.
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Cloud hosting company Rackspace has debuted its Private Cloud software on Openstack Grizzly, the latest version of the Openstack system, and the release adds virtual networks and active directory integration to the Private Cloud.
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OpenStack, the open source platform for building public and private clouds, has now gotten a big boost from a big player: IBM. The computing giant announced this week that, henceforth, all of its cloud services and cloud-related software will be based on the OpenStack open cloud architecture and related
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