OpenStack

February 10, 2016

CLOUD

OpenStack Summit – Vote Now Speaking Sessions and Topics

3 min read

You know the drill. It’s one of the great things about the OpenStack Summit. Unlike most other conferences, where organizers single-handedly set the agenda based on what they think you want to hear, the OpenStack Summit agenda is based on what you actually want to hear. Curious about containers? Intrigued by NFV? Wondering what’s next […]

November 10, 2015

CLOUD

Ceilometer + Monasca = Ceilosca

5 min read

Integrating Monasca and Ceilometer seemed like a very good idea from the start. It would integrate all the OpenStack resources notifications and metrics as well as provide a unified storage layer for Monitoring and Metering, simplifying deployment at scale as well as opening the door for new solutions that weren’t possible before. So the team […]

November 9, 2015

PERSPECTIVES

Interacting with Metapod from the OpenStack CLI (or Building your OpenStack CLI VM)

3 min read

Back in September 2014 Cisco acquired private OpenStack cloud service company Metacloud (http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?articleId=1489587). Initially known as Cisco OpenStack Private Cloud (COPC) and now known as Cisco Metapod®. Cisco Metapod represents one of most robust and scalable OpenStack-as-a-Service or On-Premise Public Cloud Experience offering in the market. With the agility and vision of a startup, the […]

November 4, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco ACI at OpenStack 2015 in Tokyo

2 min read

Because of the nature of SDN, and specifically the automation available with Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure, ACI works really well with cloud orchestration tools such as OpenStack. I was able...

October 26, 2015

DATA CENTER

ACI at Openstack Summit Tokyo

2 min read

Welcome to Tokyo, Japan. The OpenStack Summit is a four-day conference for developers, users, and administrators of OpenStack Cloud Software. It’s a great place to  learn about how Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) makes it better to Build – Deploy – Scale – Connect your OpenStack based applications.   Why should ACI be used with OpenStack

October 21, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure for OpenStack: Enabling Reliable OpenStack Cloud for Enterprises

3 min read

Companies are going through a change in the way they conduct their businesses and digital transformation is paving the way. IT services and applications are distributed and beyond the traditional boundaries of the data center. Cloud adoption is a big part of the transformation. Enterprises are looking at multiple cloud technologies from established and emerging […]

September 1, 2015

CLOUD

Cisco OpenStack® Private Cloud is now Cisco Metapod™

2 min read

One of the benefits of cloud is being able to iterate quickly. There’s a saying in the software development world that we can’t post here due to profanity, but if you’re curious, you can view it on the Startup Vitamins website here. Bottom line: Cloud allows you to develop products quickly, so you can launch […]

August 10, 2015

CLOUD

Guest blog: DBaaS, Coming to an Intercloud Near You

1 min read

Today’s guest blog comes to us courtesy of Tesora CEO, Ken Rugg. The Cisco Intercloud is a pretty amazing demonstration of the power of OpenStack. It will have incredible worldwide reach with 350 data centers across 50 countries. Unlike Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, however, Cisco isn’t building all the data centers itself. Instead it is […]