Storage is one of the key building blocks of clouds, and so it was no surprise that storage technology was a key part of the recent OpenStack Summit. Several vendors used the conference to show a ...

Building a cloud without storage is like building a house without closets, cupboards, cabinets, or garage space. In each instance, the finished product might elicit oohs and aahs from the outside, but ...

Attack the Stack: 5 Tips for Successful Cloud Deployment When it comes to OpenStack, just about any kind of storage system can be hooked up to the open source framework for managing cloud deployments.

Server virtualisation has transformed the datacentre, spurring growth and consolidation in x86 workloads. And as virtualised infrastructures have matured, the ecosystem surrounding them has moved to ...

Hone your OpenStack skills with a full deployment in a single virtual machine. It's hard to go anywhere these days without hearing something about the urgent need to deploy on-premises cloud ...

The software-defined datacentre represents the current phase in the evolution of IT delivery to the business. It is an approach largely driven by virtualisation and the rise of VMware -- and to a ...

The ascent of OpenStack, the open source framework for private and public clouds, has been nothing short of meteoric from its beginnings in 2010. The platform has become a genuine phenomenon with more ...