Some enterprises choose to adopt OpenStack because of its open source nature, DIY approach and reduced vendor lock-in risks. Still, it's a complex technology, and those who deploy it continue to seek ...

To help users weigh up the options when designing and configuring their clouds, the OpenStack Foundation today lifts the lid on a new online tool it says will aid that process. The aim of OpenStack’s ...

Automation and orchestration are key elements to reduce manual tasks in cloud computing. While major providers, such as AWS, Microsoft and Google, offer their own suite of services, OpenStack is an ...

OpenStack developers have taken their first key steps to reduce interdependencies between the different parts of OpenStack, allowing some of the pieces to be more easily used individually and ...

At the OpenStack Summit today, Red Hat announced RDO, “a freely available, community-supported distribution of OpenStack that runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and their derivatives.” In ...

At its core, OpenStack is an operating system that builds public or private clouds. But OpenStack is a platform, it’s not just one piece of software that’s downloaded and installed to – voila! – build ...

OpenStack is a mainstream open source cloud management platform, aiming at providing rich cloud platform services supporting easy implementation, large-scale scale-in/out and unified standard.

OpenStack is gaining increasing industry attention and, while it can deliver huge advantages, some may say it is “hyped”. Although OpenStack has an ever growing range of enthusiastic practitioners and ...

This post provides a high level overview of various components of OpenStack, thereby setting stage for more in depth discussions in subsequent posts. With the buzz around Folsom release and the ...