Open Cloud
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From Closed Source to Open Source – A Journey
- By Assaf Lev,
- November 23, 2015
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Since joining GigaSpaces a few months ago, I thought it would be interesting to write down some thoughts about my experience on the journey from the closed-source, enterprise world to the open source, startup mentality of getting work done, both internally at the office as well as from a client-facing perspective. As you […]
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OpenStack, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Scaling – Murano, Microservices, NFV and more
- By Jeremy Hess,
- October 22, 2015
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OpenStack Liberty was released just a few days ago on October 15th. This is OpenStack’s twelfth release of the widely-used cloud computing platform. Liberty is also a great name for this release as it brings with it a “liberating” factor for many developers – the new big tent approach. This will basically allow any […]
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The Skinny on OpenStack Kilo – NFV & IPv6, Bare Metal Cloud, and More
- By Sharone Zitzman,
- May 16, 2015
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The 11th release of OpenStack has officially landed in advance of the OpenStack summit, which makes this the “K” release of OpenStack, and it has aptly been named Kilo, for the hefty goodness it brings with it. The long, tall and skinny of Kilo So like all of our post on OpenStack […]
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The VMware OpenStack Cloud Conundrum
- By Nati Shalom,
- November 7, 2014
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OpenStack is an open source cloud infrastructure that is considered by many as a cost-effective alternative to VMware. In reality, the transition from VMware to OpenStack isn’t that trivial, which leads most enterprises to take a hybrid cloud approach. This means they run their OpenStack infrastructure alongside their existing VMware infrastructure with an aim […]
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OpenStack Juno – The Stats Behind the Open Source Cloud
- By Sharone Zitzman,
- November 5, 2014
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Every now and again we like to do an OpenStack statistics roundup, usually we do this following the release of their annual report, but recently they sent a quick OpenStack Juno summary, and I thought I would share the highlights, and how this compares to previous reports. So, as you all already know, since […]
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OpenStack Cloud Deployments Made Easy–Heat Plugin for Cloudify
- By Yoram Weinreb,
- September 16, 2014
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OpenStack Heat makes orchestrating the deployment of multiple OpenStack elements a breeze using its “stack” concept. By defining a HOT (Heat Orchestrating Template) document that describes the stack and “creating” the stack based on the document, Heat will orchestrate the deployment of many elements including networks, subnets, ports, floating IPs, security groups, servers and much […]
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Going Hybrid Cloud with OpenStack
- By Nati Shalom,
- September 11, 2014
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OpenStack Silicon Valley is just a few short days away and we are looking forward to talking OpenStack with the local community. A main focus for Team Cloudify at the event will be around the topic of portability AKA hybrid cloud, not only between environments, but also between OpenStack and non-OpenStack environments. In July […]
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Open cloud deconstructed. What it means to be native to the OpenStack cloud.
- By Nati Shalom,
- September 2, 2014
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OpenStack is just not like any other cloud. OpenStack is an open source cloud and that makes it quite unique in comparison to many of the closed source public clouds generally available today, the most common being AWS, Azure GCE, and others. The fact that it is open source, allows us to integrate with […]
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OpenStack Wiki in Short – A Quick Guide to Open Cloud
- By Sharone Zitzman,
- July 18, 2014
- OpenStack
In this post, we outline the different OpenStack components, and how they work together. This is your quick wiki for everything OpenStack
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