Rackspace Technology has admittedly been relatively quiet in recent years when it’s come to OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure platform that was born in 2010 out of the collaboration between the cloud computing company and NASA. …
One cloud was never going to be enough, no matter how much Amazon Web Services wants it to be otherwise. …
Everyone in the IT industry likes drama, and we here at The Next Platform are no different. …
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. …
The IT industry likes drama perhaps a bit more than is warranted by what actually goes on in the datacenters of the world. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
The religious fervor of open source software has settled down and reality has settled in. …
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. …
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