crowbar

Deploying OpenStack Is Difficult? It’s A Myth!!
By Krishnan Subramanian on September 23, 2011
Ever since Open Source came into existence, one of the biggest myths about them is “it is not user friendly”. Everything from it is not easy to use to it is difficult to even deploy were thrown against open source. Most of the times, it was intentional FUD unleashed by proprietary vendors whose business is […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, crowbar, deployment, insights, open source, opensource, openstack, stackops | 5 Responses

PaaS Is The Future Of Cloud Services: CloudFoundry Lines Up Deployment Partners
By Krishnan Subramanian on August 17, 2011
This is next in the series of post where I am highlighting the importance of PaaS in the future of cloud services. VMware’s CloudFoundry (previous CloudAve coverage) has completely altered the PaaS landscape with a first multi-cloud, multi-language open source platform. While the platform has clearly won the hearts of both pundits and developers, there […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged briefs, chef, Cloudfoundry, crowbar, dell, enstratus, opscode, paas, paasfuture, platform services, rightscale, ubuntu, vmware | 2 Responses

Opscode Chef, The Secret Sauce Behind Dell Open Source Crowbar
By Krishnan Subramanian on August 3, 2011
Dell recently announced an OpenStack cloud solution that came with an installer, called Crowbar, which makes installation of OpenStack Cloud on bare metal servers seamless and less time consuming. In fact, with Crowbar, one can install OpenStack cloud on a rack within 30 mins or so. Dell has decided to open source Crowbar under Apache […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, chef, cloud computing, crowbar, dell, iaas, Infrastructure services, open source, openstack, opscode | 1 Response

Dell Takes On Proprietary Clouds With An OpenStack Solution
By Krishnan Subramanian on August 1, 2011
Last week at OSCON 2011, Dell unveiled Dell OpenStack Cloud, its OpenStack based solution to go against the likes of IBM targeting both the enterprise and service provider markets. While talking about Dell’s attempts against the unified computing efforts by IBM, Cisco, HP and Oracle, I highlighted how Dell is taking a more “open” approach […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged briefs, cloud computing, crowbar, dell, dell openstack solution, enterprises, iaas, Infrastructure services, openstack, oscon, oscon 2011, private clouds, public clouds, service providers, video | 1 Response