Although a small-scale OpenStack private cloud appears cheaper on paper, when skill costs are factored in it may work out more expensive than proprietary alternatives. OpenStack distributions cost on ...

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.

AUSTIN, TX -- Six years ago, at the first OpenStack Summit, OpenStack started as an open-source infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud. It still is that, but telecom companies like AT&T and Verizon ...

Cisco is continuing its software acquisition tear by unveiling plans on Tuesday to buy OpenStack specialist Piston Cloud Computing to accelerate the networking giant's ambitious Intercloud strategy, ...

Open source cloud computing platform OpenStack has a new semi-annual version of its code out this month and one symbolically important aspect is a deepened partnership with Google’s public cloud.

Monday was a big day for Rackspace . The web host is one of the founders of OpenStack, an open cloud platform project that it collaborated on with NASA and a few others two years ago. Now, several ...

At LinuxCon and CloudOpen this week, attendees are being bombarded with cloud, cloud, cloud. Most of the cloud goings-on revolve around OpenStack, the open source infrastructure-as-a-service project ...

AUSTIN, Texas — AT&T has provided a glimpse into its efforts to virtualize and cloud-enable 75 percent of its network services by 2020. Speaking at the OpenStack Summit here, Sorabh Saxena, AT&T’s ...

For this purpose, the community has chosen to start with OpenStack in the cloud orchestrator role. Nothing prevents contributors from creating and resourcing a project to create an alternative ...

Following a four-month beta period, Rackspace has started offering its hosted servers and databases using the open source OpenStack suite of cloud software. That OpenStack has been pressed into ...

IT organizations are moving to the public cloud in droves to take advantage of cost savings and efficiency improvements over traditional on premise datacenters. The public cloud offers the promise of ...