Cloud.com Brokers OpenStack-Microsoft Marriage
Cloud.com (see previous CloudAve coverage), the company that helped Korean Telecom and few other Asian telecom providers establish public clouds, today announced that they have brokered a partnership between Microsoft and OpenStack. Open source purists may not like this idea of Microsoft coming into the OpenStack picture but I think this is a shot in [...]
OpenStack Released Today
OpenStack (see previous CloudAve coverage), the open source cloud computing stack supported by Rackspace, NASA and many other companies, unwrapped their first version, codenamed Austin release, today. This marks a crucial milestone of a project that has the potential to change the cloud computing market upside down. Ever since they announced the project during OSCON [...]
Openstack Enters Feature Freeze Stage
Openstack (see previous CloudAve coverage here), the open source cloud computing play by Rackspace, NASA and many other vendors, has entered an interesting milestone last week. According to Openstack roadmap, the first version of the stack will be released on October 21st 2010. In preparation for this release date, they have entered the feature freeze [...]
Updated: Openstack.org – A Rackspace Hailmary Pass?
Last week, Clouderati Twitter stream was full of back and forth arguments on possible dumping of Amazon API by Openstack. It all started with a recent Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group meetup on Openstack. One of the takeaways from the meeting is that Openstack is dumping the API compatibility mode. Nebula, the cloud computing project [...]
