Tag: OpenStack
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SolidFire’s OpenStack reference architecture is driving new sales and thought leadership
My report on SolidFire’s OpenStack reference architecture (RA) is now up. In addition to covering the RA itself, I was more curious to hear how the business had been going that is, “is it a thing?” As I put in my newsletter the day of the briefing, it seems like the answer is yes. Here’s…
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Coté Memo #27: More on VMworld, Intigua and systems management APIs,
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #27. Today we have 33 subscribers, so we’re +/-0. I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsors Come check out cloud hijinks at 451’s HCTS conference Oct…
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HP Orchestrates Datacenters With OpenStack, Chef
Also, [see this other story on the topic](http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DataCenterKnowledge/~3/KIgB7EGoc6A/). HP Orchestrates Datacenters With OpenStack, Chef
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How VMware sees OpenStack as a standard – Network World
How VMware sees OpenStack as a standard – Network World
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The great OpenStack conundrum: with 15,000 members, why is adoption lagging?
This is the common OpenStack meme for coverage. Each Summit there’s more and more users – “customers” – but it will take a while before OpenStack is suddenly us an “overnight success.” Looking at it from a different perspective, OpenStack is one of the biggest, new model for open source development: they’re iterating on the…
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OpenStack Dominated By Tire Kickers, Code Testers – For Now
OpenStack Dominated By Tire Kickers, Code Testers – For Now
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Reflections on the OpenStack Atlanta summit
Lydia at Gartner summarizes the motivations of OpenStack vendors, touching on what it means for “lock-in”: Customers should expect to be no less locked into an OpenStack-based vendor/provider than they would into any other CMP or cloud IaaS provider. Reflections on the OpenStack Atlanta summit
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Networking in OpenStack
In many ways, Neutron’s failure and planned rebirth are a metaphor for OpenStack as a whole, with the tech promising too much at the start, becoming overly dependent on vendors, and only being fixed when paying punters started to confront its weaknesses. As the OpenStack collective learn these lessons the hope is that they will…
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Embedding OpenStack in Solaris – Press Pass
Oracle announced that it’s putting OpenStack into Solaris, which is good fun. James Niccolai asked for my thoughts on the topic for his story. I hadn’t been briefed, so it was just speculation, but here’s the full text of what I sent over: Solaris was always – and no doubt still is – technically advanced.…
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Red Hat revenues, old vs. new and early cloud momemtum
Brandon Butler sums up the “old” (Linux) vs “new” (middleware and cloud) revenue stream for Red Hat The company gets about 80% of its $1.3 billion in revenues from a category that’s headlined by RHEL, and those subscriptions aren’t likely going away any time soon, says Joel Fishbein, who tracks Red Hat’s stock closely as…
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“Leveraging OpenStack”
In the context of covering Cisco’s “InterCloud” announcement, the following is quoted: The Cisco Intercloud will be built upon industry-leading Cisco cloud technologies and leverage OpenStack for its open standards-based global infrastructure. We’ll support any workload, on any hypervisor and interoperate with any cloud. You see that notion frequently now-a-days, the idea of OpenStack being…
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Mirantis has trained over 1,000 people on OpenStack
So far, those 200 organizations have enrolled more than 1,000 staff members in Mirarantis’s OpenStack training and certification program. Mirantis has trained over 1,000 people on OpenStack
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IBM customizes OpenStack workload placement with Platform code
Within an OpenStack deployment, the Platform Resource Scheduler can choose the most appropriate server in which to place a new virtual machine based on policies crafted by the administrator. Criteria can include how much of each machine is already being used in terms of its CPU utilization, memory utilization and other factors. I’d expect to…
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OpenStack on Wall Street – Developers
To speed up development of custom written applications, of course. OpenStack on Wall Street – Developers
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There’s big expectations mis-alignment in OpenStack-land
While this dude’s tone is pretty harsh, there’s not too much wrong here if you peel that back. The issue is one of contextualizing OpenStack. I think a lot of people want it to be a finished, done product. There’s even the sense from some OpenStack die-hards I’ve spoken with over recent years that commercializing…
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OpenStack vs. Amazon
The differentiation [between Amazon and OpenStack] is that OpenStack technology is driving an initiative, throughout the world, which can be adopted and molded in a non-proprietary way. If you, as a user, want to integrate some proprietary technology into OpenStack, you can do that very easily. It’s basically an open system. The companies and brand…
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Some Kind of Hybrid Cloud
Our customers are asking for two interrelated items: federation to public clouds and a choice of public cloud APIs. It’s been very consistent. Customers are all deploying some kind of hybrid solution. Some times they start in public and want to move some workloads back to private, like Zynga. Some times they start in private…
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