Openstack - Virtualization Software
Cisco Firing on All Pistons in OpenStack Cloud
June 12, 2015 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
Cisco, a company which was traditionally known for their network equipment, such as routers and switches just a few years ago has continued to further diversify their business over the last several years. In 2014, Cisco purchased Metacloud, an OpenStack … Read More
HP Expands the Cloud with Helion Updates
June 12, 2015 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
HP recently announced multiple enhancements to their Helion Cloud product suite at HP Discover 2015. Since its initial announcement in 2014, the Helion Cloud has grown by leaps and bounds with a focus on HP enterprise customers.
HP Helion CloudSystem … Read More
Blue Box gets a Boost: OpenStack Provider Announces Funding Round
January 6, 2015 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
OpenStack continues to draw more attention as we see more funding announcements and product news. Seattle-based OpenStack private cloud provider Blue Box has just announced the completion of their Series B funding round which began in Q4 of 2014.
Private … Read More
Midokura’s SDN Product, MidoNet Becomes Open Source
December 11, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
Midokura is a software defined networking company who’s product, MidoNet, aims to provide functionality for Layer 2 through Layer 4 of the OSI model. On November 3rd, Midokura announced that MidoNet has become available under the Apache 2.0 license, … Read More
Mirantis and the Art of the Multi-Million Dollar OpenStack Business
October 27, 2014 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE
As the OpenStack market place continues to grow, and vendors lunge to get a piece of the hot new open cloud customer base, Mirantis has shown many why it is for good reason. Just recently we saw the landmark announcement … Read More
EMC Ups Their OpenStack Game; Acquires Cloudscaling
October 13, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
There are a lot of deals happening in technology lately around OpenStack. Today marked another of those big days with another acquisition as EMC announced the purchase of Cloudscaling, founded by Randy Bias.
Financial details were not disclosed as the … Read More
Networking for OpenStack: What Should You Know about Juno?
September 22, 2014 | David Davis, vExpert, VCP/VCAP, CCIE
As the “J” release of OpenStack, the popular open source cloud environment approaches, we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for each of the individual projects within. Dubbed “Juno”, this release will become available in October … Read More
HP Recipe for OpenStack: Just Add Eucalyptus
September 11, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
HP has been launching initiatives into the OpenStack ecosystem in a big way over the last year with the biggest announcement coming in the spring during at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta. As HP debuted their Helion OpenStack offering, they … Read More
Why VMware is Embracing OpenStack and Docker
September 8, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion 2
With all of the focus on OpenStack and Docker lately, it is no surprise that even VMware is making plans to integrate and compete with players in the open source cloud and container space. VMware has long been involved with … Read More
SUSE Unveils New Cloud Platform
August 21, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
As a long time user of SUSE Linux, it is exciting to see the growth in the platform which just got a very interesting feature addition with the latest iteration of the SUSE cloud platform. SUSE Cloud is up against … Read More
Platform9: Out of Stealth, Into Your Private Cloud
August 12, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Today is a big day for Platform9, a new startup which just came out of stealth to announce their exciting new private cloud provisioning platform. There are lots of waves in the market around the public versus the private cloud, … Read More
Virtualization, Cloud, Bare-Metal, and Tapjoy
August 7, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
The conversations are happening all over the place: “Should we cloud, co-lo, or host our own?” to which the answer will differ depending who you talk to. The real reason that the answer should differ shouldn’t be based on who … Read More
The Pluralsight Experience: The Making of Introduction to OpenStack
August 4, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
For those who aren’t familiar with my work that is done outside of content creation for Virtualization Software and Enterprise Storage Guide, I also author for Pluralsight after being introduced to them by our very own David Davis.
In 2013 … Read More
Red Hat Unveils Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5
July 8, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
OpenStack continues to draw attention, and Red Hat has announced the latest in their Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform with version 5 of the suite. This marks a good day for the long time OpenStack advocates, and shows that … Read More
VMware NSX, VSAN, and OpenStack
July 4, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Interoperability is a pretty important feature as we see more work being done on multi-hypervisor, multi-product environments. VMware has done some good work to ensure that they are looking ahead to bring these disparate environments closer together.
NSX, VSAN and … Read More
HP Releases OpenStack Reference Architecture: 15 Pages of OpenStack Goodness!
July 4, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Many companies produce reference architectures as a way to provide specific guidance on how to deploy infrastructure and applications. By using reference architecture designs from a vendor, we know down to the part number what a working, supported design can … Read More
HP Helion Private Cloud For Public Sector
June 10, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
Virtualization and cloud ecosystems are taking over the news lately. As conference season is in full force now, the announcements are going to be coming out at a fast and furious pace.
Among the recent announcements, I was struck by … Read More
OpenStack Icehouse – Lots of New Changes!
May 23, 2014 | Eric Wright, vExpert, Cisco Champion
OpenStack is becoming a more widely known name in virtualization lately, and with good reason. Much like a band that tours small venues for a few years and then suddenly becomes an “overnight success”, OpenStack has the potential to become … Read More
Introduction to Openstack Storage Systems
February 4, 2014 | Paul Meehan, VCAP-DCA, CCNA 4
Openstack is a word on many people’s lips.
The Project is just over three years old, but you can feel how it has already gained mindshare and convinced important companies and people to get behind it. It’s evident from the … Read More
Is CloudByte Really the Future of Storage?
December 5, 2013 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNA
A few weeks back I attended Storage Field Day 4. One of the storage vendors we heard from is CloudByte. CloudByte is a startup that has been around for about three years. They are strictly a software company that works … Read More
How to Build a Private Cloud with OpenStack & RackSpace
July 4, 2013 | Lauren Malhoit, VCP, MCSE: Security, and CCNA
RackSpace is a cloud provider that runs everything using OpenStack cloud software. Their software, OpenCenter, makes deployment easier. In this article I’ll run through the initial install. The download is free.
They recommend that you deploy this using either three … Read More
Installing an OpenStack Private Cloud using Ubuntu 12.04
June 8, 2013 | Scott D. Lowe, vExpert, MVP Virtual Machine, MCSE 1
OpenStack is open source software that allows companies to create public or private clouds. It’s one of the most popular, if not the most popular, implementations of cloud today. To see more about the conceptual architecture, check out this page.
In … Read More
