Tag Archives: cloud computing

Brighten Your Cloudy Future with Open Source

www.vkernel.com As proprietary cloud solutions look to establish themselves in the marketplace, open source technologies are also stepping up to provide customers with the latest innovations and security solutions to meet their needs. This session highlights the four significant IaaS open source cloud projects with basic information, current status, customer examples and why open source clouds matter to you. Who knows, this talk may even lead you to not only using open source, but also becoming a significant contributor.

Ross Turk on Open Source Cloud and Ceph

In this Linux.com interview at OSCON 2012 Ross Turk, VP of Community at Inktank, discusses the definition of the open source cloud and his company’s role in the cloud stack. Inktank launched this spring as the enterprise support company behind the open source Ceph storage platform. The company is involved in the OpenStack and CloudStack projects as well as working with proprietary vendors.

OpenStack: An Open Source Cloud for VARs and MSPs?

The VAR Guy FastChat Video interviews Rackspace’s Jim Curry, Chief Stacker for OpenStack. The conversation explores how OpenStack, the open source cloud platform, can potentially benefit channel partners, VARs and managed services providers (MSPs).