October 20, 2016
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You have got to be kidding me. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, the research company’s annual enterprise IT conference, Gartner vice president David Mitchell Smith said, “In many ways we’re nowhere nearer understanding what cloud is.” Oh, come on! The year is 2016, but Smith … Continue reading
May 21, 2015
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VANCOUVER — Some people, like Forrester Research, still have concerns about OpenStack. That’s cute. While Forrester, and they’re far from the only ones, worry about just how ready OpenStack is for the business, Best Buy, BMW, EBay, and WalMart are … Continue reading
May 21, 2015
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VANCOUVER — In an interview at OpenStack Summit, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, revealed that he’s considering an IPO for his privately held business. Shuttleworth, who has funded the popular Linux company out of his … Continue reading
May 20, 2015
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VANCOUVER — At OpenStack Summit, Red Hat announced it was releasing a technology preview of Red Hat Gluster Storage with integration into OpenStack‘s new Manila shared file system project. Red Hat brings Gluster to OpenStack shared file service. More>
May 19, 2015
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VANCOUVER — When you think of retail giant Walmart, you may think of great bargains, or the death of small businesses, or convenience. What you probably don’t think about is the software behind the supply chain that enables Walmart to … Continue reading
May 19, 2015
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VANCOUVER — At OpenStack Summit, Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical and Ubuntu‘s founder, announced that benchmarks proved that Ubuntu’s LXD container hypervisor “crushed” Linux’s own built-in virtual machine (VM) hypervisor KVM. Canonical claims LXD crushes KVM. More>