Tag: openstack
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OSCON: ex-NASA cloud lead on his OpenStack startup, Piston
Last week at OSCON in Portland, I dragged Josh McKenty away from the OpenStack one-year anniversary (that’s what Josh is referring to at the very end of the interview) to do a quick video. Josh, who headed up NASA’s Nebula tech team and has been very involved with OpenStack from the very beginning has recently…
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Structure: OpenStack launches Incubation program
Today was second day of the two-day Structure conference here in San Francisco. Cloud was the topic du jours with heavy referencing of big data and concepts and projects such as OpenFlow, Open Compute and OpenStack. The format consisted mainly of moderated panels seated in comfy chairs with break out sessions scheduled a couple of…
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Cyber Infrastructure org goes with OpenStack and Dell
Cybera, a Canadian not-for-profit recently selected OpenStack along with Dell systems to build out their Infrastructure as a Service cloud. The organization, which is based in Alberta, “collaborates with public and private sector partners to accelerate research and product development that meets the needs of today’s society.” Most recently Cybera used OpenStack to build out…
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Ubuntu cloud update — OpenStack, Eucalyptus, Ensemble & Orchestra
Today when I was walking the floor at the Cloud Expo here in New York, I ran into fellow Austinite Dustin Kirkland. Dustin is the manager for systems integration team for Ubuntu. I got Dustin to give me the low down on the most recent UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) that concluded a few weeks ago…
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Cloud.com on OpenStack and powering RightScale’s myCloud
Last night at Cloud Expo, I got some time with Cloud.com‘s CMO Peder Ulander to learn how they are working with two key partners, OpenStack and RightScale. Peder told me how OpenStack is a key relationship for Cloud.com and gave me a quick overview of today’s announcement that Cloud.com is powering RightScale’s myCloud Private Cloud…
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Gettin’ the scoop on the OpenStack Design Summit
Earlier this week, I attended the first two days of the OpenStack Design Summit out in Santa Clara, CA. Before I took off I grabbed sometime with Jim Curry, GM of Rackspace Cloud Builders and the leader of Rackpace’s OpenStack efforts. I got Jim’s thoughts on how the summit was going, how the project was…
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Eucalyptus back at OpenStack Design Summit
At the last OpenStack design summit, I sat down with Eucalyptus co-founder Graziano Obertelli and got his thoughts on the effort. This morning I bumped into a now clean-shaven Graziano and thought Id get his input on this week’s summit. Some of the ground Graziano covers: What Graziano’s goals are for this weeks OpenStack summit…
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Forrester’s James Staten on OpenStack
Earlier today the OpenStack Design Summit kicked off here at the Hyatt in Santa Clara. This four day event is bringing together developers, users and business people to discuss OpenStack and design its future. Among this morning’s attendees was James Staten Forrester Research’s cloud guru. I grabbed James at the first break and got his…
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Rackspace’s head of OpenStack talks about Facebook’s Open Compute
This morning at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto the company announced their Open Compute project Partners and kindred spirits were there to tell the story behind Open Compute and explain what they think it means to the industry. One group of kindred spirits were the individuals from Rackspace. I got some time with Jim Curry…
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Dell, Equinix and Rackspace launch Free OpenStack Demo environment
OpenStack, the open source cloud platform based on code donated by NASA and Rackspace, has gained considerable traction since it was launched eight months ago. The community has rapidly grown and there have been several releases. Now its time to get potential customers trying it out and kicking the tires. With the idea of removing…
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Dells Data Center Solutions group turns Four!
Dell’s Data Center Solutions group (DCS) is no longer a toddler. Over the weekend we turned four! Four years ago on March 27, 2007 Dell announced the formation of the Data Center Solutions group, a special crack team designed to service the needs of hyperscale customers. On that day eWeek announced the event in their…
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Rackspace evolves OpenStack Governance
One of the trickiest things to get right in an open source project is the governance model. Who makes up the various boards and gets what authority is something struggled over and something that virtually no one gets right straight out of the gate. Its particularly interesting if you are a commercial entity sponsoring a…
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OpenStack Installer Demo at SXSW
Last week and this, Austin’s downtown has been taken over by the South by Southwest festival (SXSW). What started out nearly 25 years ago as a music festival/conference has grown to include parallel film and interactive events as well. During the event every bar and venue downtown is occupied with bands, films or tech companies…
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OpenStack heads into Interstellar Overdrive
One small step for OpenStack, one giant step for mankind! Ok, that may be taking it a bit far but today there is some exciting news that Dell and Rackspace have announced. If OpenStack is new to you it’s the open source cloud platform based off of the Nebula cloud code base donated by NASA…
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DCS systems, solutions and MDC steal show at Dell sales kick-off
Every year at the end of January Dell holds a giant kick-off meeting for our enterprise and public sales forces. The event, which has been held in Las Vegas the last two years, is a four-day happening consisting of keynotes, sessions and a full-scale expo where the sales team can touch and learn first-hand about…
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Mark Shuttleworth on UEC and OpenStack
Mark Shuttleworth, the ever gracious founder of Ubuntu, stopped by Dell this morning to talk to various folks about various subjects. I was able to grab some time with him between meetings and get his thoughts on a few topics. I was particularly interested in getting his thoughts on Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) which will…
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Rackspace’s CTO on the promise of OpenStack
Yesterday morning at the Web 2.0 summit out in San Francisco I sat in a session led by RackSpace‘s CTO John Engates. After the session finished I grabbed some time with John to learn more about his thoughts on OpenStack, the open source cloud platform that Rackspace, along with NASA helped kick off. Some of…