July 19, 2013
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Anyone can set up and run a single server instance on a cloud. That’s easy. Few people can set up multiple server instances on a cloud that can efficiently and automatically shift gears to match the rise and fall of … Continue reading
July 19, 2013
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Three years ago, on July 19th, 2010, Rackspace and NASA introduced OpenStack. Then, it was just another cloud stack project, a promising one but only one among many. Fast forward to today and OpenStack’s list of backers is a technology … Continue reading
July 16, 2013
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Say you want a private cloud, but you also want to be able to expand out into the public cloud when you must? What can you do? One answer is use Eucalyptus 3.3, which can work hand in glove with … Continue reading
July 11, 2013
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Without virtualization, we wouldn’t have cloud computing. It’s that simple. Virtualization, however, isn’t the same thing as cloud computing. For starters, virtualization came long before cloud computing appeared. Virtualization: Cloud Computing’s Foundation. More >
July 9, 2013
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The Linux Foundation used to be just about, well, Linux. Now, it also manages an open software defined network alliance, OpenDaylight, and the open-source Xen virtualization manager. On July 9th, the first fruit of these new efforts arrived: Xen 4.3. … Continue reading
July 8, 2013
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After Citrix bought Xen in 2007, the core of this popular open-source hypervisor remained open source, but some of the rest became proprietary software. Now Citrix has decided to take all of its virtual machine manager and cloud XenServer software back … Continue reading