Storage is one of the key building blocks of clouds, and so it was no surprise that storage technology was a key part of the recent OpenStack Summit. Several vendors used the conference to show a ...

Rackspace has relinquished the reigns of the OpenStack code to an independent foundation and has made significant progress on its own commercial plans. At OpenStack Summit Wednesday, one Rackspace ...

While innovators in the HPC and hyperscale arenas usually have the talent and often have the desire to get into the code for the tools that they use to create their infrastructure, most enterprises ...

Hewlett-Packard expanded its software-defined storage strategy Friday with several additions to its storage lineup targeting virtualized and cloud environments, with a particular emphasis on OpenStack ...

Managing complexity and the sheer volume of storage requirements within the corporate environment today is one of the greatest challenges facing IT departments. The growth of business data and the ...

Here is a cool fact for you: the original version of OpenStack was published on Joshua McKenty’s blog. When OpenStack launched Nova, there were some 6,000 lines of code. OpenStack now has over 1.25 ...

The ascent of OpenStack, the open source framework for private and public clouds, has been nothing short of meteoric from its beginnings in 2010. The platform has become a genuine phenomenon with more ...

STOCKHOLM & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nexenta (@Nexenta), global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage (OpenSDS), today announced that alongside its partner SanDisk®, a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover how technology helps business compete. One would think that by using an open source cloud operating system like OpenStack, ...

San Francisco-based SwiftStack has announced the general availability of its private cloud storage product. The company’s software-defined storage (SDS) solution is based on the OpenStack Swift object ...

It’s been almost eight years since the first release of OpenStack and the promise of a platform that would deliver a new era in open source private cloud. In that time, we’ve seen OpenStack’s star ...

April 2015 saw the latest release of the OpenStack cloud computing platform, codenamed Kilo. This release introduced Manila, which brings support for shared file systems into OpenStack to complement ...