Cisco intends to buy Piston. IBM buys Blue Box Cloud. This was just one day in the life of OpenStack. Large companies have been on an OpenStack feeding frenzy, with Cisco buying Metacloud and EMC buying Cloudscaling before Piston and BlueBoxCloud were even on the menu. While some may argue whether on not OpenStack is …
OpenStack Summit
Keystone is one of the key components of any OpenStack deployment. In short, Keystone takes a look at everyone logging into the OpenStack cloud, and answers two very important questions: “Who are you?” and “What can you do?”. It is critical for Keystone to be deployed in a highly available manner in each OpenStack deployment, as …
This week I’m at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, and I’ve been having a fantastic time. I’ve been to a ton of great sessions, and am presenting one on Thursday. I’ve also gotten to meet tons of people from the OpenStack community in person, which is always one of my favorite parts of conferences. Today I also …
Ok, I’m just going to throw it out there. This post is noting more than shameless self promotion for OpenStack Summit voting. I’ve teamed up with Eric Wright, one of my Virtual Design Master partners in crime, to bring you number of topics which have a few central themes, mainly a few facets of OpenStack …