The OpenStack cloud platform works well for companies that aim to deploy software or infrastructure as a service but remain wary of doing so using public cloud services. Here's how to find out if ...

When OpenStack was originally launched, founders trumpeted its use of the Apache license, citing the license’s flexibility, which would let OpenStack providers modify the product for competitive ...

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.

Aubuchon said that they use NoSQL databasing and OpenStack tools that allow them to sift through metadata. “The key,” he elaborated, “is that we have an infrastructure with OpenStack that we ...

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.

You see, when OpenStack is fully prepared for their commercial implementation, companies signed up with them will be able to deploy cloud platforms using KVM and Xen virtualization in large numbers.

Oracle is now a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation, a show of support that has been welcomed by many across the technology industry. Oracle’s backing will hasten the development of ...

What are we to make of Oracle announcing support for an open stack of cloud foundation software for its distribution of Linux and Xen? Are we seeing a culture clash?

Perhaps the saving grace in terms of real customer use was a presentation by Tim Bell of CERN. CERN is using OpenStack to power the infrastructure that crunches an almost unfathomable amount of ...

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 ...