Rackspace launched its OpenStack open source cloud computing platform earlier this year to a great deal of fanfare and whispers that it could represent a major shift in the cloud computing landscape.

The San Antonio-based cloud giant on Monday unveiled its network of Certified Deployment Partners. At its launch, the network of partners includes systems integrators CloudTP, MomentumSI and TeamSun.

A recent survey found 85.8 percent of telecoms consider OpenStack to be essential or important to their success. That's not bad for an open-source cloud some people still think isn't ready for ...

For years, SUSE, the European Linux and open-source company, was one of the OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud program’s champions. No longer. SUSE has decided to cease production of new ...

Oracle is now a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation, a show of support that has been welcomed by many across the technology industry. Oracle’s backing will hasten the development of ...

IT organizations are moving to the public cloud in droves to take advantage of cost savings and efficiency improvements over traditional on premise datacenters. The public cloud offers the promise of ...

The problem with both the open source OpenStack cloud controller and its analog in the VMware world, formerly known as vCloud and now known as vRealize, is that neither of these tools have the look ...

Different vendors hold different views about the future of cloud computing. Amazon Web Services, for example, believes private and hybrid clouds are only a stepping stone on the road to public cloud.

Following a four-month beta period, Rackspace has started offering its hosted servers and databases using the open source OpenStack suite of cloud software. That OpenStack has been pressed into ...