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A Big Step Forward for OpenStack

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Joe Arnold

The OpenStack community got a shot in the arm reciently when news of Rackspace acquiring Anso Labs broke. The leading open source project in cloud computing stands to make big strides as a result of the combination. The folks at … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged Open Source, OpenStack | 2 Comments

OpenStack Object Storage Moves Beyond Rackspace

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Joe Arnold

Earlier this week, one of our clients, a Tier 1 ISP, launched an object storage cloud based on OpenStack, an open source compute and storage framework created by Rackspace and NASA. The new storage cloud is the first commercial OpenStack-based … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing | Tagged OpenStack, Rackspace | 8 Comments

A Most Interesting Cloud Meetup

Posted on September 1, 2010 by andrew

Relax after VMWorld and come share Dos Equis with the OpenStackers. We’ll be discussing cloud, cloud, cloud and maybe dodgeball Thursday evening. 5PM-8PM Sept. 2nd @ Tres Agaves Restaurant 130 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94107 (Just a few blocks … Continue reading →

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Leaders in the Cloud: OpenStack

Posted on August 25, 2010 by andrew

“People don’t realize that lock-in actually occurs at the architectural level, not at the API- or hypervisor-level” Randy Bias discusses the impact of OpenStack on the cloud computing ecosystem with sandhill.com’s Kamesh Pemmaraju. Kamesh outlines the current state of cloud … Continue reading →

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Interacting with your Swift install

Posted on August 23, 2010 by caleb

Once you have swift services running, you are going to want to interact with them. (You can have them running in minutes if you want: swift-solo) Most of the currently available tools that interact with Rackspace’s Cloudfiles are hardcoded to that … Continue reading →

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OpenStack: Swift Barn Raising

Posted on August 19, 2010 by andrew

At Cloudscaling, we’re getting closer to putting OpenStack into production services. This is the first installment chronicling that journey and opening some of the tools that we are developing along the way. OpenStack is a cloud computing framework for building … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Tagged OpenStack, Swift | 2 Comments

Does OpenStack Change the Cloud Game?

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Randy Bias

This week Rackspace Cloud, in conjunction with the NASA Nebula project, open sourced some of their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud software. This initiative, dubbed ‘OpenStack’, should have a dramatic impact on the current dynamics for building cloud computing infrastructure. Previously there … Continue reading →

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