openstack

Enterprise OpenStack Deployments—Why Hide?

With more than 4,700 attendees, double the number at the Hong Kong Summit a mere six months ago, the May 2014 OpenStack Summit in Atlanta was by all measures a resounding success. So why are so many enterprises reluctant to go on record about their OpenStack implementations?

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Atlanta OpenStack Summit: OpenStack Grows Up

Have you been waiting to jump into an OpenStack cloud deployment in support of your business or application but were afraid it's still an unsupported mess? Based on the recently published Atlanta OpenStack Summit presentations list, OpenStack is finally coming into its own as a maturing project.

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Can OpenStack Get Operations Right?

According to many industry pundits—including Forrester—OpenStack is well on its way to becoming a standard, but the platform is still struggling with developing the proper tools to operationalize it. Beth Cohen examines whether or not OpenStack can get operations right.

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After Three Years, Is OpenStack Still on Track?

There are many exciting new projects planned for the upcoming Icehouse release of OpenStack, but there are also some troubling developments as the project moves from being an incubated alternate cloud toolkit to a serious production-ready platform. Is OpenStack finally ready for prime time?

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Will the Chinese Dominate OpenStack?

Who could have guessed that Beijing is home to the largest pool of OpenStack developers in the world? The huge Chinese market has been all but invisible to outsiders until the Chinese OpenStack activities were highlighted at the November 2013 Havana Summit held in Hong Kong.

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Is Private Cloud a Sustainable Solution for the Enterprise?

With a lot of press about the coming private cloud revolution, it might seem like a sign that the anticipated widespread enterprise adoption of the private cloud has final arrived. Beth Cohen looks at why companies might not be quite ready to switch from a public to a private cloud.

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The Building Blocks of Private Cloud Architecture

The public cloud is a well-established place where consumers and enterprises are increasingly more willing to put their mission-critical applications. After a rocky start, there is growing interest by companies in building private clouds to complement their public cloud application portfolio.

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Cats vs. Cows—Which Cloud Do You Have?

If you are treating your private cloud like a pampered and spoiled pet cat that requires expensive care and feeding, then maybe it is time to start treating your cloud infrastructure more like a consumable commodity, like hamburgers—cheap, reliable, and interchangeable.

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