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When it comes to OpenStack and open source cloud computing, here’s the key question I keep asking: Are any companies or customers actually profiting from OpenStack? One potential answer…

Mirantis, an engineering services firm delivering OpenStack and application infrastructure expertise, is the only commercial organization in the world whose engineers took three of the …

There is a common belief that the future of IaaS clouds will be dominated by telcos. To justify this idea, people point to a recent spree of acquisitions by telcos: Verizon acquiring Te…

Wanted: OpenStack developers. This talent is in high demand in the cloud industry at the moment. OpenStack, which is an open source operating system for cloud offerings, was founded in …

The advent of public clouds has brought large-scale HPC resources within easy reach of ordinary companies. In many situations, especially for temporary projects, cloud solutions can be …

Summary: Boris believes that comparing OpenStack and Amazon’s AWS is not correct. It is like comparing a restaurant to a grocery store. Back in August, I published a piece summarizing a…

One of the most popular platforms for building private and public clouds is an open source effort called OpenStack. The OpenStack initiative incorporates a number of projects (compute,…

Mirantis, an engineering services company focused on open source application infrastructure, has established a Center of Excellence for OpenStack™ to help companies successfully deploy …

Historically, commercial software provided enterprises with reliability and scalability, especially for mission-critical tasks. No one wanted to risk failure in finance, operations, or …

Over the history of computing, we can trace a pattern of continuous decomposition, from a single system into disparate components. Early on, these individual parts made it easier to des…