4 Days of Tweets from the OpenStack Summit, 2012 [SlideShare]

October 19 2012 | By Travis Balinas | in Events
OpenStack Summit 2012 Logo

Over the past 4 days, I’ve been watching the live presentations and following the #OpenStack hashtag during the 2012 OpenStack Summit. While I was not able to attend, I did, however, piece together a snapshot of the event through tweets. Below is a collection of 78 tweets from the past 4 days, highlighting major events, .. Read More »

The State of the Open Source Cloud [Roundtable Discussion Invite]

October 11 2012 | By Travis Balinas | in Cloud
Open Source Cloud Ladder

Last week, we released the results of our State of the Open Source Cloud survey (complete with infographic) and needless to say, the interest level in these results was impressive. After looking over the results, it was clear we needed to dive further. What better way is there to discuss these results than with the current, .. Read More »

OpenStack’s 3-Legged Enterprise Identity Crisis

September 25 2012 | By Floyd Strimling | in Floyd's Analysis
OpenStack Logo, OpenStack, Rackspace

OpenStack is one of the most exciting open source projects in existence today and its original founders, NASA and Rackspace, should be commended for their commitment to open source and innovation.  From its humble beginnings to today’s massive hype and financial backing, OpenStack has both promise and challenges in its future. Rather than write yet .. Read More »

OpenStack’s Troublesome Inflection Point

September 11 2012 | By Floyd Strimling | in Floyd's Analysis
OpenStack's Inflection Point

There is no doubt that OpenStack continues to be a hot topic within the open source community.  However, with VMware’s acquisition of Nicira and their new Gold Member Sponsorship of OpenStack, have we reached a troubling inflection point? OpenStack bills itself as producing a ‘ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds’.  .. Read More »

Zenny’s Cloud Links #60 – Gartner Trends, Intel & Open Source, DevOps

June 8 2012 | By Travis Balinas | in Amazon
Zenoss at Cisco Live 2012, #clus

Every Friday we like to highlight some of our favorite posts on IT Operations, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Virtualization and anything else that grabbed our attention over the week. Here are some great articles from the week of June 4th that are worth taking a look at. Enjoy and have a fantastic weekend! Is OpenStack the new .. Read More »