Rackspace launched its OpenStack open source cloud computing platform earlier this year to a great deal of fanfare and whispers that it could represent a major shift in the cloud computing landscape.

The total revenue is small potatoes compared to Amazon Web Services (AWS), but the growth rate is great. 451 observed that so far OpenStack-based revenue has been overwhelmingly from service providers ...

Lured by the siren song of better business agility and accelerated innovation, an increasing number of companies are considering or have already deployed private clouds as part of their IT strategy.

Today, the cloud is everything. But, in 2010, the cloud was barely real. Still, at NASA Ames Research Center and Rackspace, developers decided that the best way to build a cloud was to build it from ...

It’s no secret that it’s still hard to find good tech talent, and that’s definitely the case for the kind of complex and highly specialized skill set it takes to administer an OpenStack cloud. To grow ...

Dell is delivering an Infrastructure as a Service cloud solution based on the open source OpenStack platform. Called the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution, it consists of a reference architecture that ...

Dell's launch of Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution Infrastructure-as-a-Serivce comes as customers look for alternatives to proprietary, licensed software cloud models, John Igoe, executive director of ...

Piston Cloud Computing was one of the darlings of the OpenStack movement. A founding father of the cloud computing project, it produced one of the first private cloud products based on the open source ...

That said, Platform9 thinks companies want a cloud controller experience that is more like AWS and less like either OpenStack or vCloud/vRealize as it comes out of the box. And the VMware customer ...

IBM’s and Cisco’s recent acquisitions of Blue Box and Piston Cloud Computing, respectively, just top the list of big names closing deals that position OpenStack as the coming standard for cloud ...

Suse, the newly independent open-source company behind the eponymous Linux distribution and an increasingly large set of managed enterprise services, today announced a bit of a new strategy as it ...

OpenStack is the largest and most active open source cloud computing project, but interest in the platform has leveled off in the last quarter as momentum for competing project CloudStack continues to ...