Why OpenStack Is The Least Interesting Part Of Rackspace Clouds
We spend too much time talking about OpenStack. That may seem like a surprising statement, considering the resources and energy Rackspace devotes to the OpenStack project and to our offerings built...
View ArticleIs OpenStack Software Dead?
Boris Renski, CMO and co-founder of Mirantis, created a stir yesterday with his blog post, “Infrastructure Software is Dead,” which calls into question the viability of having users deploy and operate...
View ArticleOperating OpenStack Clouds at Scale
As anyone who’s ever tried to move a technology from development to production knows, operations and scaling are two of the most difficult elements to do well. Nowhere is that more true than when you...
View ArticleOpenStack Summit Day 1 Recap: OpenStack for Work That Matters
Like the city in which we are meeting, the Barcelona OpenStack Summit feels both old and new at the same time. Barcelona is a new venue for the bi-annual Summit and as usual, there are an impressive...
View ArticleOpenStack Summit Day 2 Recap: The Future is Multi-Cloud
Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation, kicked off day two of the Summit by tying it back to the first day’s keynote about the challenge of meeting the scalability requirements...
View ArticleOpenStack Summit Day 2 Keynote Recap: Let’s Collaborate!
If the day one keynotes at the OpenStack Summit in Austin emphasized technical diversity in the enterprise as the new reality, the day two keynotes were all about understanding that collaboration is...
View ArticleOpenStack Summit Recap: Crossing The Chasm
The sense that OpenStack is reaching a point of maturity that will propel it across the chasm to mainstream adoption was palpable during last week’s OpenStack Summit in Austin, where roughly 7,500...
View ArticleBeing The OpenStack Standard-Bearer
The OpenStack project originated in 2010 with a short e-mail from Jim Curry, then VP of Corporate Development at Rackspace, to Chris Kemp, CTO of NASA. From this humble beginning, an open source...
View ArticleWhy OpenStack As A Service Is The Best Model
If you’ve read my recent blog post recapping the Austin OpenStack Summit, you’ll know I believe OpenStack is beginning to cross the chasm from early to mainstream adoption. I’m not alone in that...
View ArticleBenefits Of The Rackspace Approach To OpenStack
As the co-founder and standard-bearer for OpenStack, Rackspace gets a lot of questions from users, journalists, analysts and vendors — about how we run OpenStack at scale, whether we use upstream code...
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