A busy week in OpenStack, headlined by the release of Swift 2.0 with Storage Policies, the launch of Project Calico — an open source Layer 3 SDN architecture that meets requirements for NFV, and the release of RHELOSP 5.0. Meanwhile, contributors to the third OpenStack Book Sprint created a massive OpenStack Architecture Design Guide, soon to be available for download at a URL near you. 

Swift 2.0 Released – Now with Storage Policies

On Tuesday last, OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) released an upgrade hailed as the most significant since the project was initially open sourced. Swift 2.0 debuts Storage Policies, a simplified way to dynamically requisition storage meeting application requirements for storage tier/medium type, speed, capacity, replication level — even geographic area, to enable compliance with data sovereignty laws and regulations. Extensions to the Storage Policies scheme will support additional new features expected later this year, such as Erasure Coding. Read the full story

• OpenStack Swift 2.0: introducing Storage Policies

• OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) Adds Storage Policies for Enterprise Users and Cloud

• OpenStack Swift 2.0 Released and Storage Policies Have Arrived » The OpenStack Blog

• OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) Adds Storage Policies for Enterprise Users and Cloud

• OpenStack Storage Component Swift Matures With Release 2.0

• Storage policies come to OpenStack Swift | Opensource.com

• Here’s what Swift’s ‘most significant update’ brings to OpenStack | SiliconANGLE

Metaswitch Launches Project Calico: Open Source Layer 3 Virtual Networking

Also on July 8, network virtualization pioneers Metaswitch Networks announced the launch of Project Calico, to which they’ve contributed the initial codebase under a (permissive) Apache license. Present virtual networking solutions for OpenStack run at Layer 2, requiring implementors to specify overlay networks as VLANs, which don’t scale well. Meanwhile, alternative technologies like GRE, VXLAN and other SDN approaches add big CPU overheads, limiting compute-node VM density (or compelling use of specialized network hardware for CPU offload) and ultimately adding costs. Read the full story

• Metaswitch Makes Major Virtual Network Move | Light Reading

• Metaswitch opens NFV code as Project Calico • The Register

• Metaswitch unveils open source NFV project Calico to bolster cloud datacentres | Business Cloud News

• Metaswitch Networks Announces Project Calico – MarketWatch

• Metaswitch Aims Project Calico’s Layer 3 Routing at Cloud Data Centers ~ Converge! Network Digest

• Project Calico » Architecture

• Flattening and simplifying the NFV cloud

Red Hat’s Icehouse-Based RHELOSP 5.0 Distro Will Offer Three Years of Support, VMware Integration

On July 8, Red Hat released version 5 of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. RHELOSP 5.0 is based on April’s Icehouse release of OpenStack, plus RH Enterprise Linux 7, and RH Enterprise Virtualization 3.4 — both released last month. The new spin will offer three years of support, double that of RHELOSP 4, released seven months ago. Read the full story

• Red Hat OpenStack Platform 5 Delivers Long-Term Support of Icehouse

• Red Hat | Red Hat Announces General Availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5

• RHEL OpenStack 5: Red Hat hogs the OpenStack spotlight | Openstack – InfoWorld

• Red Hat Extends Support, VMware Integration for OpenStack Platform | Cloud Computing

• Red Hat moves forward with new OpenStack release | ZDNet

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Openstack 7 reaches general release- The Inquirer

• Red Hat Pushes VMware Integration with New OpenStack Release – Linux/Open Source on Top Tech News

• Latest RHEV version includes small tweaks, big outlook

• Will Red Hat, Inc. Profit From its Investment in This Burgeoning Market? (RHT, VMW)

• oVirt Community Update: July 2014 — Red Hat Open Source Community

Oracle

• Oracle Upgrades Virtualization Server For OpenStack – InformationWeek

Docker

• Interview with James Turnbull of Docker | Opensource.com

• Solomon Hykes on the tricky balance of being Docker’s benevolent dictator — Tech News and Analysis

• What Docker 1.0 means for OpenStack | Opensource.com

Mirantis

• Missing Building Blocks for Enterprise OpenStack: High Availability

• Murano – application catalog for Openstack – YouTube

IBM

• IBM and the art of cloud management: OpenStack (Storageneers)
• Bringing the System z into the Cloud via OpenStack | DancingDinosaur

   

HP

• HP Hires Cloud Exec From Rackspace | Re/code
• Helion Network Offering To Boost HP’s Revenues — Trefis
• Case Study: Ricoh Transitions to Cloud Backup with… – HP Enterprise Business Community
• OpenStack and HP Helion can transform the enterprise | Business Cloud News
• HP Blogs – HP Helion Network, creating a cloud of clouds – The HP Blog Hub

Rackspace

• Inside Rackspace: UK Cloud Ops-Furthering OpenStack – YouTube

Cloudify

• OpenStack Orchestration with Heat + Devstack | Javalobby

EMC

• EMC Redefine Possible (TL;DR Edition)
  
• How solid-state arrays are getting enterprise-ready – TechRepublic
• Latest EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS Innovation Supports Next-Generation Cloud, Analytics and Mobile Workflows
• New EMC Innovations Bring Enterprise-Grade Scale-Out Data Lake to Life | EDN
• EMC Isilon – Reinforcing the Scale-Out Data LakeEMC Pulse
• Midokura
• Midokura Announces Partnership With Fujitsu – MarketWatch
• Midokura, Fujitsu launch joint OpenStack-based cloud service – Telecompaper
• Fujitsu, Midokura Partner on OpenStack SDN Solution

Metacloud

• Metacloud’s OpenStack Platforms Deliver Enterprise-grade Cloud Functionality

Vendor Announcements

• How Zadara Is Putting The Enterprise In The Storage Cloud | socalTECH.com
  
• Infographic: Database usage in the Public and Private Cloud | Tesora – Database as a Service for OpenStack Trove
• Virtustream Set To Release xStream 3.0 – Page: 1 | CRN
• Percona Drives MySQL(R) Industry Agenda With Services, Open Source Software, and Thought Leadership – MarketWatch
• FinSMEs | Cloudian Closes $24M Financing
• Hybrid Cloud Storage Company Cloudian Raises $24M
• ownCloud is Youngest, Smallest and only Open Source Company to Reach Gartner’s First Enterprise File Sync and Share Magic Quadrant
• Anouncing New SSD I/O platform at Cloud-A | Canadian Public Cloud Hosting with OpenstackCanadian Public Cloud Hosting with Openstack
• Cloudian Partners With Amazon Web Services To Provide Expanded Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure For Superior Enterprise IT Storage Agility – NASDAQ.com
• Sandvine Boasts NFV Traction | Light Reading
• Community and Dev

In addition to the Swift 2.0 release (see above), twelve brave members of the OpenStack community (including OpenStack: Now’s Editor in Chief, Nick Chase) joined this past week at VMware headquarters in Palo Alto, CA for the third OpenStack Book Sprint. Despite rumors of mutiny and periodic threats of prison-break emerging on the Twitter feed, the assembled experts have, by confidential report, successfully produced a 65,000+ word OpenStack Architecture Design Guide, soon to be released for free download, and as a paper-based book. Said contributor Nick Chase over drinks on Friday night: “I can’t believe we wrote a whole book. And it’s … really, really good!”

• OpenStack Community Weekly Newsletter (July 4 – 11) » The OpenStack Blog
  
• Travel Support Program – OpenStack
• OpenStack Paris Summit: Sponsorship Overview – YouTube
• This week in OpenStack | Opensource.com
• Wrapping up the Travel Support Program – Juno » The OpenStack Blog
• Open Stack Book Sprint #3 Underway! |
• Final day of OpenStack booksprint |
• Interview with Richard Lee a contributor to OpenStack at GOTO Chicago 2014 – YouTube
• Teleporter – Migrate your solutions to OpenStack
• From incubation to integration in OpenStack | Opensource.com
• Are open source foundations nonprofits? The IRS says no | Open Source Software – InfoWorld
• the place of a non-developer in the openstack community | dronopenstack
• OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software » Message: [openstack-dev] Announcing git-review 1.24
• #openstack-meeting: project
• #openstack-meeting: tc
• Juno Preview for OpenStack Compute (Nova) | Russell Bryant
• Operators | WebSphere Journal
• Enterprises and App Developers Have More Control as Swift Gains Storage Policies – Superuser
• OpenStack Infrastructure July 2014 Bug Day – pleia2’s blog
• User Group Spotlight: Belgium – Superuser
• Juno Preview for OpenStack Compute (Nova) | Red Hat Stack
• ZeroBanana – News Archive 10 July 2014
• Just drop your fantasy of a king of OpenStack — there won’t ever be one | VentureBeat | Cloud | by Alan Clark, OpenStack Foundation
• Events
• July 15, 2014: San Jose, CA: Architecting your OpenStack Cloud

Webcasts

• OpenStack Networking High Availability Challenges – YouTube
  
• F5 and OpenStack – YouTube

Commentary and News

• How Software Defined Environments and DevOps accelerate social and mobile delivery – Thoughts on Cloud
  
• VCE: Is It Deju Vu All Over Again? – IT-TNA | IT-TNA
• Is Openstack The App Store For Future Storage Services? | Predatar TSM in the cloud
• Rise Above Security Apprehensions to Harness Cloud Completely – Alan Perkins – SiliconIndia Magazine
• Is OpenStack commercially viable for service providers? | News | TechRadar
• Five Trends Show Why Cloud Computing Is Far From Mature
• What the Tour de France teaches us about OpenStack – HP Enterprise Business Community
• Implementing private cloud? Consider an OpenStack orchestrator – Thoughts on Cloud
• Are open source foundations nonprofits? The IRS says no | Open Source Software – InfoWorld
• Cloud Computing: Two Wins, One Incomplete
• Cloudian’s new $24M shows cloud storage isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition | VentureBeat | Cloud | by Eric Blattberg
• Does OpenStack Have a Future in the Private/Hybrid Cloud? | Virtualization Management Software & Data Center Control | VMTurbo
• Is OpenStack Ready for Primetime?
• Needed: An Open SDN Platform – Datamation
• OpenStack update
• Why The Cloud You Want Is Not The Cloud You Deserve – ReadWrite
• Are you using OpenStack? | The Enterprisers Project
• Implementing private cloud? Consider an OpenStack orchestrator – Thoughts on Cloud
• Is there a chance of cloud sanity breaking out?
• The Low Down on How New Projects are Added Into OpenStack | The Path To Open Hybrid Cloud
• VMWare: More Needed to Offset Slowing Growth, Says Wells; Red Hat, Citrix Top Picks – Tech Trader Daily – Barrons.com
• What Does OpenStack Need to be Accepted in the Enterprise? | The Path To Open Hybrid Cloud
• When Big Companies Don’t Trust Cloud Computing
• DevOps and Software Defined Environments accelerate social and mobile delivery (IBM Software Defined Environment (follow us on Twitter @IBMSDE))
• Infinity Systems Software
• Interview with Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona of Bitergia | Opensource.com
• OpenStack on OpenStack or Triple-O — Cloud Bear Bits
• What is SDN and Should You Buy Into the Hype? | Piston Cloud Computing
• With Microsoft, IBM and Red Hat backing it, Google’s Kubernetes is a peace pipe and Trojan horse — Tech News and Analysis
• Blog: At Nuage Networks, We Eat Our Own Dog Food by B. Van De Walle
• Google Kubernetes – Analytical Evaluation | Symantec Connect
• NASA’s CTO: Open source software keeps us honest | IT Business
• Realizing the ‘Open’ Part of the Promise of OpenStack | Cloud Computing content from MSPmentor
• The Road to the Cloud Runs Through the Network
• Weekly Cloud review: From OpenStack to AWS | SiliconANGLE
• Completely free IT training resources to help diversify your IT career | Mind Circus
• Diving into OpenStack Network Architecture – Part 4 – Connecting to Public Network (Ronen Kofman’s Blog)
• Ubuntu 14.04: Is Canonical taking on too much? | Network World
• Why OpenStack is the Preferred Private Cloud Platform | Transmedia Newswire
• 10 Storage Products For OpenStack Clouds – Page: 1 | CRN
• Operators | Virtual-Strategy Magazine
• What Is Mistral And Why StackStorm Cares: Workflow Service For Cloud Automation | StackStorm
• Audit Belongs with Policy | Adam Young’s Web Log
• Tutorials
• Inside My Home Rackspace Private Cloud, OpenStack Lab, Part 6: Upgrading
• Software Defined Networks in the Havana release of Openstack – Part 3 – Rackspace Developer Center
• swift user : how to give read only access to containers – Ask OpenStack: Q&A Site for OpenStack Users and Developers
• Tech Tip: Working with OpenStack
• IBM Knowledge Center
• Docker All The Things – OpenStack Keystone and Ceilometer Automated Builds on Docker Hub | all things open
• How to Install OpenStack and Cloud Foundry on HP Moonshot | Blog on All Things Cloud Foundry
• Easy Understanding of OpenStack Cloud
• Options for Period-Spanning Statistics in Gnocchi – A Malagon
• Advanced Queries to Ceilometer with a mongo backend | InIT Cloud Computing Lab
• Inside My Home Rackspace Private Cloud, OpenStack Lab, Part 6: Upgrading
• RDO on CentOS 7 – Notes In The Margin
• Running an openstack instance
• VMware NSX, VSAN, and OpenStack | Virtualization Software
• Logging into a Server from Mirantis OpenStack Express – Pure Play OpenStack.
• Designing CloudX Solution using Mirantis Fuel O… | Mellanox Interconnect Community
• Fake OpenStack with Dwarf
• Cloudify – OpenStack Orchestration with Heat + Devstack
• Virtualizing MongoDB: Cloud, EC2, OpenStack, VMs…or Dedicated?
• Cloudify – What is Openstack? A Quick OpenStack Tutorial
• OpenStack Virtual Environment : Part 2 — Cloud Bear Bits
• Using ibmveth and ibmvscsi on OpenStack (The PowerLinux Community)
• Build Windows Server 2008/2012 R2 for OpenStack – Virtual2PrivateCloud

Podcasts

• OpenStack Israel — #OpenStack #Israel Podcast, Episode 13 with @shlomoswidler and @sabdfl – Mark Shuttleworth @ubuntu

Webcasts

• Altoros Case Study: Software-defined Drug Delivery with Cloud Foundry & OpenStack (CF Summit 2014) – YouTube
  
• Art of Cloud Management: OpenStack – YouTube
• Michael Factor of @Haifa Research Lab on IBM’s contribution to the OpenStack Project – YouTube
• OpenStack 101
• Get To Know Ask OpenStack – YouTube
• Helion OpenStack: Why it matters – YouTube
• HP Helion OpenStack Professional Services – YouTube
• Video: Why Infrastructure Matters IBM System z and Cloud Computing ~ Frequency
• Perspectives from Rackspace on OpenStack+Open Compute Project+Big Data – YouTube
• Demos
• Mirantis OpenStack 5.0 Overview
• Cloud Foundry and OpenStack – A Marriage Made in Heaven! (Cloud Found…
• Next Generation Data Centre – OpenStack Demo From MetaCloud – YouTube
• #QuicCount Hadoop WordCount on top of OpenStack Folsom (quick-openstacked-hadoop) – YouTube

Vulnerabilities

• OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software » Message: [openstack-announce] [OSSA 2014-023] Multiple XSS vulnerabilities in Horizon (CVE-2014-3473, CVE-2014-3474, and CVE-2014-3475)
• OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software » Message: [openstack-dev] [OSSG][OSSN] [Horizon] Session-fixation vulnerability in Horizon when using the default signed cookie sessions