Today the Linux Foundation announced their newest collaborative project, the
Open Daylight Project. “Daylight” is an open source project formed by
industry leaders and others under the Linux Foundation with the mutual goal
of furthering the adoption and innovation of Software Defined Networking
(SDN) through the creation of a common vendor supported
framework. OpenDaylight unites technology industry leaders to establish the
largest SDN open source project to date, with the goal of a common and open
SDN platform for developers to utilize, contribute to and build commercial
products and technologies upon. The OpenDaylight Project is committed to
furthering adoption of SDN as well as accelerating innovation on top of the
platform in new and differentiated ways in a vendor-neutral and open
environment where anyone can participate based on the merit of their
contributi... (more)
At first blush, it sounds like a mystic's riddle, somewhere in the vicinity
of the sound of one hand clapping. But in reality, it's a setup that makes
perfect sense: Rackspace runs its OpenStack cloud in another OpenStack cloud.
"We're running our cloud inside of a cloud," John Engates, chief technology
officer at Rackspace, recently told Wired.com. "All of the control nodes that
are necessary to serve the customers on our cloud are running in another
OpenStack cloud."
The arrangement is only natural. "It's a better way of doing things," Engates
said. "We're merely eating our own... (more)
Riding the current software defined data center (SDC) wave being led by the
likes of VMware and software defined networking (SDN) also championed by
VMware via their acquisition of Nicera last year, Software Defined Marketing
(SDM) is in full force. HP being a player in providing the core building
blocks for traditional little data and big data, along with physical,
virtual, converged, cloud and software defined has announced a new compute,
processor or server platform called the Moonshot 1500.
Software defined marketing aside, there are some real and interesting things
from a ... (more)
The OpenStack movement is about to release Grizzly, the seventh and latest
release of the open source infrastructure cloud platform for building public,
private and hybrid clouds.
Among other things it was on time. The widgetry is on an every six-month
release schedule.
The changes made were across virtualization, storage, networking, security
and systems engineering and are supposed to solve not only complex cloud
problems, but drive the entire technology industry forward.
The initiative's contributors are reportedly up 45% in the last six months
and Grizzly is supposed to del... (more)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 04/09/13 -- Piston Cloud Computing,
Inc., the enterprise OpenStack company, today announced a new release of
Piston Enterprise OpenStack, a turnkey, bare-metal cloud operating system
for deploying and managing a private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud
environment. The industry's first commercial OpenStack solution now delivers
a truly lights-out model for the software-defined data center and improved
API support for businesses that want to end their dependency on Amazon Web
Services (AWS).
"Our turnkey OpenStack software allows or... (more)
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