The San Antonio-based hosting and cloud king teamed up with NASA to launch a bold open-source cloud computing initiative dubbed OpenStack. Through OpenStack, an open source cloud operating system, ...

Rackspace and NASA have paired to deliver an open-source cloud computing platform, dubbed OpenStack, and cloud providers and partners are pumped for the possibility of more open cloud computing and ...

Although somewhat late to the market for cloud computing infrastructure, OpenStack enjoys an advantage over other cloud stacks in that it has a modular architecture, said one of the first developers ...

IT world is changing. Evolution of cloud computing in recent past has brought drastic change in era of IT field. Major advantage of cloud computing is that the hardware need not to be upgraded as ...

The combination of Ubuntu and OpenStack for deploying private clouds is a match made in heaven for several reasons. Ubuntu serves as the most popular operating system on OpenStack deployments, thanks ...

The latest OpenStack Summit has kicked off in Boston, with the Foundation naturally being tooled up with news and announcements for attendees. Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack ...

Less than a year ago the cool thing for IT vendors to do was jump on the OpenStack bandwagon. Everyone was hopping on: Red Hat, IBM, and even VMware signed on as partners to the open source cloud ...

Kata "Containers" is something of a misnomer. Rather than true containers, such as LXC, Kara Containers are lightweight VMs designed to feel and perform like containers. Why bother? Eric Ernst, an ...

As cloud computing configurations become ever more complex and expansive, seemingly simple tasks, such as configuring storage infrastructure, become more challenging. The number of technology options ...

Ames' answer was to create Nebula, an early Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. But, as Brian Gracely, Red Hat's senior director of product strategy, pointed out, "NASA didn't have the staff to ...

OpenStack continues to add partners as cloud federation RightScale jumps on board and rolls out management support for Rackspace's OpenStack-powered cloud RightScale, whose management platform that ...