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One of the most frequently cited advantages of bringing OpenStack into your corporate world is the ability to easily add resources when your developers or other teams need them. Starting a new project? Start up a server. Experimenting with changes to an existing application? Start up a server. An application needs more resources? Start up [...]

Cross-posted with WIRED | Innovation Insights Red Hat’s annual conference in Boston this year features a major foray into cloud computing, with a commitment to OpenStack, the open source cloud alternative gunning for market traction against Amazon’s EC2 and VMware. Red Hat has prospered by taming the open-source beast without killing its animal spirits. By metabolizing [...]

This post is the third of a continuing series of interviews with OpenStack Project Technical Leads on our Mirantis blog. Our goal is to educate the broader tech community and help people understand how they can contribute to and benefit from OpenStack. Naturally, these are the opinions of the interviewee, not of Mirantis. We’ve edited [...]

Three noteworthy open source events in Central and Eastern Europe this week and last in the OpenStack and cloud space. Polish OpenStack User Group, June 6th The first Open Stack User Group in Poland takes place in Szczecin Thursday June, 6th, on June 6th 2013, 5.00 pm CEST (GMT + 2 hrs) at Hackerspace in Technopark [...]

This past week, we offered a live webcast about the new Grizzly Release of OpenStack. You can access the slides and the video of the webcast, as well as a curated list of resources and references, by opting in here. As is often the case, there were more questions than we could answer in the [...]

It is a common desire to have some storage space associated with an instance running on cloud. It is also a common desire to have access to it be as fast as possible. One obvious way to achieve this is to place the instance on the same host to which the volume of interest physically [...]

Here’s the second in our series of interviews with OpenStack Project Technical Leads on the Mirantis blog. Our goal is to educate the broader tech community and help people understand how they can contribute to and benefit from OpenStack. Naturally, these are the opinions of the interviewee, not of Mirantis. We’ve edited the interview for [...]

You’ve probably been wondering what to make of the new features that have surfaced in the OpenStack Grizzly release – the list is substantial. That’s why on Thursday, May 23, I’ll be presenting a live Mirantis webinar about this and many of OpenStack Grizzly’s other new capabilities. It’s free – you can sign up on [...]

At Mirantis, within our customer and partner base we see growing demand for deploying and running Windows based applications on OpenStack cloud. Today we are pleased to announce the forthcoming Murano project, which is designed to ease this process.  The main goal of this initiative is to create a native OpenStack component that enables fast [...]

Within the last week, Project Savanna took two significant steps forward. First, today we announced, with Hortonworks and Red Hat, a commitment to work together on the project to deliver Apache Hadoop on OpenStack. If you read our blog post here on April 1, you know some of the history and details of the Savanna [...]