Dan Bode, Puppet Labs, and Floyd Strimling, Zenoss, provide advice for those interested in starting an open source cloud project built on top of OpenStack or CloudStack platform.

OpenStack community was going through a period of introspection, transformation and evolution. What started as a small community hoping to disrupt the largest public clouds and private clouds has ...

The show saw many announcements but I want to delve into a couple in particular – the news that VMware is now supporting the Docker containerization approach and OpenStack (admittedly VMware did ...

OpenStack is a complicated and enormous open-source cloud program, but CoreOS showed that it too can be run inside a container.

OpenStack allows enterprises to manage their own AWS-like private clouds on-premises. Even after 29 releases, it’s still among the most active open source projects in the world and this week ...

While digging into the last OpenStack User Survey, I found that Ubuntu Linux was the most popular OpenStack operating system. Ubuntu is the top operating system in the OpenStack cloud.

At the OpenStack Summit in Paris, the OpenStack Foundation's Mark Collier discusses the open-source cloud effort versus Amazon and why one cloud doesn't fit all needs.

Cloudscaling CTO Randy Bias wrote an open letter to OpenStack today. In it he outlines why the open cloud effort will only win if it accepts Amazon Web Services (AWS) and creates a compatible API ...

The OpenStack Foundation is addressing complexity with "composability." Will that be enough to bring disgruntled early adopters back into the fold?

Mirantis recently launched a clever way to get developers interested in OpenStack in general and, specifically, the Mirantis distribution of OpenStack. What's the company doing? It has released a free ...

News that PayPal and eBay were dumping VMware in favor of OpenStack -- and the VMware stock price drop and media frenzy that followed -- makes me wonder about the influence of technology journalists ...

This is where Mirantis comes in. Mirantis’ OpenStack distribution includes Fuel, a deployment and management tool that takes the pain out of building an OpenStack environment. Combining a very ...