VMware is not necessarily known as a company that thoroughly embraces open source, but one of its top CTOs says OpenStack could play an important role as a standard in the cloud computing market. The ...

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 ...

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) ancestor, was already around, and Microsoft launched Azure in February 2010. But even though these depended on Linux and other open-source ...

What makes OpenStack so popular? Howie Xu, who's worked in virtual switching at Cisco, Big Switch, and VMware, took a look at the platform with fresh eyes and shared You mentioned that going to an ...

In one of Canonical's most significant deals ever, BT, formerly British Telecom, announced it would use Ubuntu Linux and OpenStack cloud to bring 5G to its the UK and worldwide customers. Specifically ...

One of the major decisions faced by channel partners adopting cloud business models involves whether to focus completely on public cloud offerings or to adopt a private cloud strategy that enables ...

As the recent uproar over the Amazon outage cast in bold relief, Amazon Web Services has become the de facto standard for IaaS in the public cloud. While companies such as VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, ...

A survey of OpenStack users, done by members of the OpenStack Foundation has found that Ubuntu is by far the most widely used operating system with OpenStack, not Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS ...

Cisco’s intention to buy Piston Cloud Computing and IBM’s acquisition of Blue Box Group, both announced this week, are bids to make private cloud platform OpenStack less of a headache for IT ...