Voting is now open for the Spring 2014 OpenStack Summit in Atlanta! Cloudscaling (and our friends at Mirantis) have submitted a variety of great session abstracts, from Randy Bias’ walkthrough of hybrid cloud landmines to avoid when architecting applications to Boris Renski’s discussion on updating the OpenStack mission statement to...

For Cloudscaling, the journey to the hybrid cloud begins (but does not end) with API compatibility between the OpenStack powered private cloud and leading public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Cloudscaling customers run OCS, our OpenStack powered private cloud solution, because it enables them to burst to and...

Recently, Barb Darrow wrote a note to Google Compute Platform, suggesting “8 Things it Could do to Freak Amazon out.” As long term readers know, I called out Google’s entry into the public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) a while ago. My extensive experience at GoGrid and in the service provider and hosting business, provides...

It’s useful for all in the OpenStack community to remember that many believe OpenStack was not ready for prime time until Essex or possibly Folsom. Some might even claim Grizzly was the first true production release. My money is on Folsom for what it’s worth. What this means is that...

At Cloudscaling, we believe the future of IT platforms rests in the cloud. Predictions are always a gamble, but the following synthesis of insights from our interactions with customers, partners, analysts and our own prescient point of view, point the way to a compelling case for how cloud-enabled IT will...

(UPDATED: Video embedded below) Earlier this week, we hosted an OpenStack Meetup at the offices of our customer, EVault, here in San Francisco. Titled “Neutron Networking and SDN in Production,” the Meetup featured panelists from major contributors to Neutron and those offering open source plugins that leverage Neutron. (SiliconANGLE covered...

If you want to know what’s new with OpenStack – new projects, code maturity, community growth, user stats and more – you’ll want to tune in for my live presentation of State of the (Open)Stack. I’ll will be broadcasting live from the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong on Wednesday, November...

If crowd size and quality of audience participation are any indication, the OpenStack community in Chicago is keenly interested in the project, and they’re actively engaged in learning more. Randy Bias and Narayan Desai (Argonne National Laboratory and OpenStack pioneer) led an OpenStack boot camp on Monday for a near-capacity...

The OpenStack train keeps rolling, picking up steam. Today’s Havana release is a remarkable achievement for the Foundation which only recently had its first birthday. Some stats from the Havana release, launching today: More Developers: Havana has code contributions from 910 developers, up 60+% from Grizzly, which was itself up...

Today’s launch of OpenContrail by Juniper Networks is a sign of the times. As we have seen with the OpenStack project, some of the largest enterprise vendors have been embracing open source with a vengeance. Most notable in the open sourcing of OpenContrail is that Juniper acquired Contrail as a...