Cloud
A Private Rackspace Still Embodies The Public Cloud
One cloud was never going to be enough, no matter how much Amazon Web Services wants it to be otherwise. …
Rackspace
Cloud
Public Cloud Doesn’t Dominate IT Quite Yet
Everyone in the IT industry likes drama, and we here at The Next Platform are no different. …
Cloud
Building The Stack Above And Below OpenStack
It has been six years now since the “Austin” release of the OpenStack cloud controller was released by the partnership of Rackspace Hosting, which contributed its Swift object storage, and NASA, which contributed its Nova compute controller. …
Cloud
OpenStack Still Has A Place In The Stack
The IT industry likes drama perhaps a bit more than is warranted by what actually goes on in the datacenters of the world. …
Compute
Power9 Will Bring Competition To Datacenter Compute
The Power9 processor that IBM is working on in conjunction with hyperscale and HPC customers could be the most important chip that Big Blue has brought to market since the Power4 processor back in 2001. …
Compute
Inside The Future Google Rackspace Power9 System
The OpenPower effort to create an alternative to the Xeon architecture in the datacenter just got a whole lot more real now that hyperscaler Google and cloud builder Rackspace Hosting have agreed to partner on a future server design based on IBM’s future Power9 processor that both companies intend to deploy in their datacenters. …
Cloud
Learning From Rackspace About Bare Metal Clouds
While most public cloud infrastructure has full-on server virtualization to dice and slice the compute, memory, and I/O capacity of iron so companies can share it, not every workload runs well atop virtual machines and in those cases, a bare metal cloud is a better place to be. …
Cloud
Open Hardware Means More Than Saving Money For Rackspace
The religious fervor of open source software has settled down and reality has settled in. …
Cloud
A Third Way: Private Cloud, Outsourced Management
To some, there is a raging debate about whether companies will migrate their applications to vast public clouds or run them in hybrid mode, with some data and applications on premises in private clouds and some on the public cloud or clouds. …
Cloud
Rackspace Forges First “Barreleye” OpenPower Servers
The Power8-based “Barreleye” server being engineered by cloud and hosting provider and OpenStack champion Rackspace Hosting has moved off the drawing boards and into silicon, printed circuit board, and bent metal. …