OpenStack

OpenStack Service Targets Deployment Hassles

Rackspace and Red Hat are responding to complaints that the OpenStack cloud-computing platform is too complicated with a new managed service feature designed to make it easier to deploy ...Full Article

Hewlett Packard Reboots With Enterprise Focus

Hewlett-Packard, HP, the iconic company often credited with laying the foundation for Silicon Valley and, with it, an unprecedented burst of technological creativity, attempts to reinvent itself beginning today ...Full Article

Rackspace Jumps on Container Bandwagon with Carina

Rackspace used this week's OpenStack Summit in Tokyo to jump on the application container bandwagon with a native container environment. Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) said its Carina container environment combines ...Full Article

Filling Storage Gap Could Boost OpenStack Deployments

As OpenStack cloud deployments slowly grow, so too do nagging concerns about complexity and the persistent difficulty of installing the open source platform, including much configuring and customizing. As ...Full Article

Red Hat Acquires DevOps, Automation Startup Ansible

The growing emphasis on DevOps and IT automation as vendors seek to provide "frictionless IT" to ease the transition to hybrid cloud infrastructure has prompted open source leader Red ...Full Article

VMware Stresses Integration in Hybrid Cloud Platform

VMware unveiled its "unified hybrid cloud platform" this week, stressing "tighter integration" of new public cloud services with a software-defined datacenter approach designed to speed the building and delivery ...Full Article

OpenStack Developer Gets Another Boost from Intel

OpenStack developer Mirantis is on the receiving end of another big investment round led by Intel Corp., which headed a previous $100 million funding round last October in the ...Full Article

Mirantis, CoreOS Marry OpenStack With Containers

Capitalizing on momentum generated by the release of a production-ready container cluster manager, OpenStack vendor Mirantis and hyperscale Linux developer CoreOS are combining the former's OpenStack distribution with the ...Full Article

Intel, Rackspace Target OpenStack Development

Chipmaker Intel and OpenStack leader Rackspace are joining forces to promote enterprise applications and cloud scaling within OpenStack source code. As part of a new cloud initiative announced by ...Full Article

Cisco to Acquire Piston Cloud Computing

A wave of technology industry consolidation continues as established companies coping with market disruptions tap into their cash reserves to both acquire new capabilities while seeking synergies in areas ...Full Article