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Why Rackspace and Openstack may be too late
Fanatical Support I wanted to take some time and make sure that I clarified my position on Openstack. Rackspace and NASA announced this open source project back in July of 2010. Openstack is a cloud...
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Why Rackspack and Openstack may not be too late (You have no hand)
I posted earlier on why I believe Rackspace’s open source initiative Openstack may be too late. Now I’m going to discuss why it may not be too late. The solution has been in development from July of...
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Has Amazon opened the door for a more enterprise friendly private/public...
Amazon is getting tantalizingly closer to providing a native platform that enables extending your private cloud to AWS. This service allows for the importing and exporting of VMDK (VMWare), Citrix,...
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Rackspace CEO: 'We're playing a different game' than Amazon
Reblogged from GigaOM: For Rackspace, there's no turning back from OpenStack now. As of Wednesday, all new customer workloads will deploy on the company's open source cloud computing platform, leaving...
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Does the Enterprise have a use for OpenStack and IaaS?
OpenStack has gotten a lot of attention the past few months. As well as it should as it’s an ambitious project. The question that I constantly ask, “What is the impact to the enterprise of these IaaS...
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Is the Rackspace OpenStack cloud really open?
I read an article over on GigaOm about Rackspace announcing a private/hybrid cloud based on their OpenStack offering. This got me to thinking and asking the question, “Is Rackspace cloud really open?”...
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Understanding VMware vCloud vs. Openstack
It’s very tempting to compare vCloud and OpenStack. It’s very difficult to imagine an enterprise Cloud that both would co-exist. I wanted to take some time and really think about the two solutions and...
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Laggard Rackspace growth sparks concern: is there enough cloud biz to go around?
Reblogged from GigaOM: Here's the narrative that cloud vendors would like us to believe: there are infinite workloads flowing to clouds of infinite capacity. There's enough business for all, keep...
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OpenStack powered by VMware
The more I think about it the strategy of VMware joining OpenStack is starting to make more and more sense. I wrote an earlier piece on how vCloud Director vs. OpenStack wasn’t the debate. Similar I...
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Tech Talk Episode 19 – The hidden cost of public cloud
Too often I run into both management and engineers that default to the thinking that migrating infrastructures to Cloud computing will reduce costs. It’s true that there are some capital expenses...
View ArticleRackspace does (should) not compete directly with AWS
OpenStack cloud providers such as Rackspace (The Open Cloud Company) and HP are in a difficult part of the cloud computing market. Googe, Microsoft and AWS are in a position to provide compute, storage...
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