OpenStack Advocacy and Promotion (Especially From Red Hat) and Other Stack Initiatives

OpenStack

The potential for OpenStack in the enterprise
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Piston Updates OpenStack Cloud Platform

Every six months or so, a new release of the open-source OpenStack cloud platform debuts. The open-source release is followed by the stream of commercial vendors, including Piston Cloud Computing, that harden the upstream bits and enhance the platform with their own solutions.

Metacloud Delivers Supported, Hosted OpenStack Cloud Platform

The OpenStack cloud computing platform continues to head in a lot of interesting directions. There are many IT departments interested in deploying it for its flexibility and customizability, but there are also those who simply want a well supported OpenStack platform that will let them take advantage of private cloud functionality.

As OpenStack Certification Efforts Spread Out, Which Vendors Will Win?

OpenStack remains a young cloud computing platform, but it's becoming clear that we will see its compatibility with other technologies getting much better this year. As reported here, Mirantis is calling for and helping to build a standard, open set of tools that vendors can use to self-certify compatibility of their solutions with the upstream OpenStack codebase. This will help everything from drivers to APIs to become more friendly for those deploying OpenStack. Meanwhile, Red Hat and others are pursuing their own compatibility and certification-focused efforts.

How to contribute to OpenStack
OpenStack Cloud Goes Open for Vendor Certification

The way that IT certifications have long worked is that they have largely been vendor-specific. That's something that is about to change with the open-source OpenStack cloud platform.

Storage policies: Coming to an OpenStack Swift cluster near you

OpenStack Object Storage (code named Swift) has a fairly frequent release schedule for improvements and new capabilities but naturally, there is always significant gravity around integrated releases for any OpenStack project. Even though the Havana release was very big for OpenStack Swift, with new support for global clusters, the upcoming Icehouse will be the biggest release yet for the OpenStack Swift project.

Other Initiatives

Pivotal's Cloud Foundry becomes open source foundation

The Cloud Foundry Foundation will be backed by ActiveState, CenturyLink, EMC, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Rackspace, SAP and VMware.

IBM places billion dollar bet on BlueMix PaaS cloud

IBM believes it's making a safe bet by opening its middleware stack to its SoftLayer Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud. They'd better be. Big Blue's putting a billion dollars on the table.

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