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OpenStack is the product of the collaboration between Rackspace Hosting and NASA, launched in July 2010. The initiative was started to enable any organization to create and offer cloud computing ...

The division of Sony that suffered a cyberattack last year, which led to a major PlayStation network outage and sensitive customer data being compromised, has dropped Amazon Web Services for at least ...

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. He ...

IT organizations are moving to the public cloud in droves to take advantage of cost savings and efficiency improvements over traditional on premise datacenters. The public cloud offers the promise of ...

In a move deemed by some as “batshit crazy,” Rackspace is said to be cloning its cloud services and making it available to the public. This move to counter the success that Amazon is having with its ...

OpenStack is the industry’s most successful private cloud technology. That may not be enough. As Gartner analyst Alan Waite posits, there are a limited number of use cases for which OpenStack actually ...

Netflix’s chief cloud architect explains why open source tools and prize programs make more sense than leaving Amazon’s Web Service. But when AWS runs into problems, like when its Elastic Load ...

Rackspace CEO Taylor Rhodes is disarmingly honest about the ride the company has been on in recent years. This is what happens, he says, "when the world's largest bookseller comes into your industry." ...

If you're looking for a de facto standard for clouds, quit holding your breath: OpenStack and AWS are it. But the buck won't stop there forever Forrester Research’s newly issued report, “The State of ...

Mirantis, once a pure-play OpenStack vendor, took its first step out of the data center Tuesday, leveraging recent investments in container-tech to find a hybrid cloud posture. The latest version of ...

Today’s opening of the Amazon Web Services Marketplace will give cloud customers a lot more convenience in cloud deployment, while sending up clouds of dust for the still-behind OpenStack to inhale.