OpenStack

Today OpenStack marks another milestone in its young existence: Rackspace has announced its full deployment and general availability to all the customers of the public cloud powered by OpenStack.  While Rackspace has been running OpenStack Object ... [More] Storage (Swift) for over 2 years, they are now running OpenStack Compute (Nova) at full scale, too.  Congrats! Jack [...] [Less]

Highlights of the week Join The OpenStack Foundation The OpenStack community has worked hard since the announcement of intention to establish an OpenStack Foundation in October 2011. We’ve come to the point where Individual Members can join and begin ... [More] making important contributions like nominating board members: http://openstack.org/join  (It’s free!) OpenStack Foundation Board – 2012 Election [...] [Less]

Highlights of the week Join The OpenStack Foundation The OpenStack community has worked hard since the announcement of intention to establish an OpenStack Foundation in October 2011. We’ve come to the point where Individual Members can join and begin ... [More] making important contributions like nominating board members: http://openstack.org/join  (It’s free!) TryStack.org Adds New ARM Technology-Powered Zone [...] [Less]

We’re excited to announce that we’ve reached a huge milestone in the process to establish the OpenStack Foundation.  Individual Members can now join and begin making important contributions like nominating board members: http://openstack.org/join  ... [More] (It’s free!) Thanks to the hard work of the drafting committee (led by the amazing Alice King), we now have a complete set [...] [Less]

Today is a monumental day in ARM server history! TryStack.org, the hosted cloud sandbox for OpenStack, now has an ARM-based OpenStack zone in addition to the x86 zone. (This is, to our knowledge, the first OpenStack cluster made publicly available on ... [More] an ARM-based system!) For those of you not familiar with TryStack, it’s a community maintained OpenStack cloud [...] [Less]

Highlights of the week G stands for Grizzly Results of the naming poll for next OpenStack release are in, and the G release will be named “Grizzly“.  The regular poll selected “Gazelle” (35 votes), with “Gilroy” (27 votes) being a close second. But the Grizzly revolt poll showed overwhelming support for the “Grizzly” name (88 [...]

The OpenStack Summit is coming to San Diego October 15th-18th at the Manchester Grand Hyatt . Check out the new Summit website to learn more, buy tickets, or to become a sponsor. This time we’ve set aside 4 days (Monday-Thursday) with “Design Summit” tracks running in parallel with other presentations and discussions, and have a single [...]

OSCON is only one week away. Don’t miss the official OpenStack Day on July 17, with: Keynote by Chris Kemp Getting Started with OpenStack by Jonathan Bryce Building a Scientific Cloud Computer with OpenStack by Chris Hoge Automation and DevOps Best Practices by Rob Hirschfeld and Matt Ray Quantum: What It Is and Where It’s Going [...]

Highlights of the week Folsom-2 milestone available for Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon and Quantum The second milestone of the Folsom cycle is now available for Keystone, Glance, Nova, Horizon and Quantum ! Note that the corresponding Python client ... [More] libraries are no longer shipped as part of the server counterpart delivery, but follow their own release [...] [Less]

Highlights of the week OpenStack Events at OSCON & Discounted Passes We have quite a few activities planned for OSCON to celebrate OpenStack’s second birthday.  Kicking off with the first OpenStack Day, Tuesday July 17, there will be lots of ... [More] OpenStack speakers, events and community members in attendance. Full details on the blog. Thoughts on [...] [Less]