The OpenStack platform is an open-source collaboration to develop a private cloud ecosystem, delivering IT services at web scale. OpenStack is divided into a number of discrete projects, each with a ...

High Speed SSD and Standard Storage Offerings Deliver Consistency and Scalability for Databases and I/O Intensive Applications Rackspace Cloud Block Storage screenshot (Photo: Business Wire) "The ...

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 ...

Building a cloud without storage is like building a house without closets, cupboards, cabinets, or garage space. In each instance, the finished product might elicit oohs and aahs from the outside, but ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OSCON 2011, booth 613 -- Gluster, the leading provider of scale-out, open source storage solutions, today announced the Gluster Connector for OpenStack which provides ...

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 ...

Sue Poremba is a freelance writer focusing primarily on security and technology issues and occasionally blogs for Rackspace Hosting. Cloud block storage is a new way of thinking about how you store ...

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 ...

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 ...