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The Impact of OpenStack on the VMware Cloud 22 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
A recent article in Datamation reported that VMware revenues are up, and part of that increase can be attributed to the VMware cloud strategy. Datamation’s Sean Michael Kerner attributes the growth to...
Should OpenStack Offer More AWS Support? 21 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
When a birthday rolls around, for many it’s time to reflect on how things have gone and what progress has been made so far. The same can be said for OpenStack, which turned three years old in July. N...
Introducing Piston OpenStack 2.5 21 Aug 2013 | 05:55 pm
For the last few months, our team has been hard at work on the next release of Piston OpenStack. We’re excited to share the improvements and new features that we have been building and testing with ou...
How DevOps Anti-Fragility Solves Operational Problems 19 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
There has been much discussion around the relationship between DevOps and the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Many of us find DevOps to be helpful in getting things done, while I...
The DevOps Mindset 15 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
In an interview with VMblog.com, Jez Humble, principal consultant at ThoughtWorks Studios, talks about DevOps not as tools and automation, but as a mindset, and unfortunately not a mindset most organi...
OpenStack Architecture and the OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook 14 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
I’ll admit it: reading cookbooks—or reading about cookbooks—makes me hungry. That’s exactly what happened when reading Kevin Jackson’s blog post describing his work on The OpenStack Cloud Computing Co...
OpenStack 101: The cloud is now in session (online!) 8 Aug 2013 | 10:31 pm
Over the last year, Piston has been training users on the setup, administration and management of OpenStack from our home city of San Francisco. This two-day course has been a great way for us to shar...
No Cloud: How Legacy Systems Are Inhibiting Cloud Adoption 22 Jul 2013 | 09:30 pm
In recent research from NTT Europe, more than half of UK CIOs cited one thing that’s holding them back from adoption of cloud systems: their own legacy infrastructure, writes Louis Columbus in a recen...
Words to my daughter, OpenStack, on the occasion of her third birthday 19 Jul 2013 | 10:02 pm
They say that nostalgia is the last resort of the has-been. “They” say that, of course, because I would never say that myself. Nevertheless, the third anniversary of something that we have all worked ...
What’s Different About DevOps? 17 Jul 2013 | 09:30 pm
It’s not the title, it’s the skills involved that make a DevOps person valuable to an organization, writes Puppet Labs’ James Turnbull on Linux.com. Citing results of the Puppet 2013 State of DevOps s...
