Open source cloud computing solutions continued to expand with the announcement a new product from Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) based on the OpenStack platform. Notably, its key selling points include not only performance and storage standards that the company touts as industry leading, but also the uniquely open source trait of freedom from vendor lock-in.
It’s official: OpenStack, the open source cloud platform, has formed an independent entity, the OpenStack Foundation, to promote the project and open source cloud computing more generally. Here’s the scoop, and what it means for the open source channel.
Founded in 2010, the OpenStack project has enjoyed broad support from a host of big names for some time.
Hi all,
I'm prepared exploring cloud technology to play on both private and public clouds. Please advise which of the following Open Source Cloud software, other than Ubuntu One, will be more powerful on features:-
Abiquo
http://www.abiquo.com/
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
What is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)?
Cloudscaling has opened up the Google Compute Engine (GCE) APIs to OpenStack, allowing customers that use the open, federated cloud to access Google’s vast infrastructure.
Cloudscaling, a San Francisco startup, is one of the pioneers in building open, distributed clouds in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) style.
The OpenStack Folsom release is out this week, along with a new cloud strategy announced by IBM.
The realm of remote, scalable and automated computing, also known as Cloud Computing, is currently progressing at a very fast pace.
CompatibleOne is a research project, under the aegis of the two competitiveness clusters System@tic and SCS, aiming at facilitating the deployment, the configuration and the administration of public, private or hybrid Clouds using open standards and interoperable
The open source channel’s answer to proprietary cloud solutions has become more compelling with the announcement of a new object storage service from DreamHost that offers full compatibility with other popular APIs. It already has some open source partners talking. Here’s why.
The new service, called DreamObjects, is based on Ceph, the open source distributed storage system.
CloudStack has released its first new code since becoming an Apache incubator project in April, according to top open source cloud headlines this week.
x2go is an open source terminal server project offering a comprehensive “server based computing” solution.Combining the advantages of existing systems it features ease of use, performance and scalability. x2go provides you with access to your desktop as an individual as well as a corporate user - from within your own network and via the internet.
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