In 2011, when we were all just getting started with cloud (mostly trying to figure out exactly what it was), Citrix bought a company called Cloud.com. Cloud.com set out to develop on open source software to, well, power clouds, whether the be public or private. In 2010, when they emerged from stealth mode, they began …
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Many of us remember when virtualization was in its infancy, when we didn’t have features like high availability to protect against hardware failures, and live migration to move a virtual server off of the host it resided on for maintenance. Back then, the benefits were all about reduced power and cooling requirements, and using less …
We keep hearing about OpenStack, but what exactly are we talking about? It’s not an apples to apples comparison to anything else in technology which can make it difficult to understand for some. OpenStack is one of those sort of nebulous (see what I did there?) things many people know about, but not everyone may understand. Or people …