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By the Time the Cloud Matures,It Could Be Too Late for IT

David M. Fishman — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:33:38 +0000

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 [...]

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OpenStack Project Technical Lead Interview Series #3: John Griffith, OpenStack Cinder (Block Storage) Project

Admin — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:00:53 +0000

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 [...]

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Fuel and OpenStack in Action: Central and Eastern Europe

David M. Fishman — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 03:07:10 +0000

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 Pomerania, an [...]

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What’s new in OpenStack Grizzly: Webcast update with questions and answers

Nick Chase — Wed, 29 May 2013 02:59:44 +0000

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 time [...]

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Travel less, save more: introducing the OpenStack volume affinity filter

Alexey Ovchinnikov — Tue, 28 May 2013 20:34:32 +0000

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 [...]

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OpenStack Project Technical Lead Interview Series #2: Monty Taylor, OpenStack CI(Continuous Integration) Project

Admin — Mon, 20 May 2013 07:01:23 +0000

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 [...]

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Segregation in Grizzly: Availability Zones vs. Host Aggregates

Nick Chase — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:13:21 +0000

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 [...]

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Introducing Murano: Bringing Windows Environments to OpenStack

Georgy Okrokvertskhov — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:22:36 +0000

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 [...]

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Project Savanna Moves Ahead: Red Hat and Hortonworks are on board

Boris Renski — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:00:20 +0000

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 project and [...]

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OpenStack Project Technical Lead Interview Series #1: Mark McClain, OpenStack Networking Project

David M. Fishman — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:00:39 +0000

We are introducing the the first 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 [...]

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