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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 ...

Rackspace would welcome a world in which the cloud standardized around OpenStack, because the company’s value proposition has always been the distinctive quality of its support and customer service.

OpenStack is the product of the collaboration between Rackspace Hosting and NASA, launched in July 2010. The initiative was started to enable any organization to create and offer cloud computing ...

Hewlett-Packard is expanding its HP Helion cloud solution portfolio with the introduction of Amazon Web Services compatibility and embedded OpenStack capabilities. HP Tuesday introduced the HP Helion ...

Mirantis, once a pure-play OpenStack vendor, took its first step out of the data center Tuesday, leveraging recent investments in container-tech to find a hybrid cloud posture. The latest version of ...

The division of Sony that suffered a cyberattack last year, which led to a major PlayStation network outage and sensitive customer data being compromised, has dropped Amazon Web Services for at least ...

If you're looking for a de facto standard for clouds, quit holding your breath: OpenStack and AWS are it. But the buck won't stop there forever Forrester Research’s newly issued report, “The State of ...

Today’s opening of the Amazon Web Services Marketplace will give cloud customers a lot more convenience in cloud deployment, while sending up clouds of dust for the still-behind OpenStack to inhale.

Cloudscaling has opened up the Google Compute Engine (GCE) APIs to OpenStack, allowing customers that use the open, federated cloud to access Google’s vast infrastructure. Cloudscaling, a San ...

OpenStack is the industry’s most successful private cloud technology. That may not be enough. As Gartner analyst Alan Waite posits, there are a limited number of use cases for which OpenStack actually ...