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Serving up cloud options just got easier
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Got cloud? It’s no secret that implementing cloud technologies allows IT to rapidly react and dynamically deliver new services to any business or organization almost instantly. In an ideal world,...
Help Choose Speakers for the Tokyo OpenStack Summit
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If you’re an OpenStack Foundation member—and especially if you’re attending the Tokyo Summit in October — step up! It’s time to vote for speakers! The polls opened last night and are closing soon (July 30 at 11:59 PM PDT). The following link will take you to the main Foundation voting page where you can see […]
OSpod #33: Weston Jossey
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Have you heard Weston Jossey explain his company’s hybrid cloud strategy before? If you haven’t, get comfortable and enjoy the recording of our most recent OpenStack Podcast. In it, Wes explains why his company chose to deploy a private cloud, what they use it for, and how they use it in conjunction with AWS to achieve […]
Cisco and Red Hat at the Center of IT Transformation
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The open hybrid-cloud and big data are at the center of the IT transformation that will enable every...
OSpod #32: Carol Barrett
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Last week our featured guest was Carol Barrett, who not only works in data center planning at Intel, but is also a leader in the OpenStack Community. She’s deeply involved in the Product Working Group, the Enterprise Working Group, and the Women of OpenStack, which means she’s got a lot of insider knowledge about what is […]
Intercloud Fabric: Simplifying the Hybrid Cloud
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So. Much. Data. Every hour 300,000 new things connect to the Internet. That’s more than 50 million things a week. And by 2020, we estimate that 50 billion things and five billion people will be connected. These are staggering numbers. And they speak to the rate of change that’s happening in IT and business. Now […]
Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Piston Cloud Computing
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Cloud computing has fundamentally altered the IT landscape: dramatically boosting IT agility, while lowering costs. To realize the business advantages of cloud, organizations are shifting to a hybrid IT model—blending private cloud, public cloud, and on-premise applications. To help customers maintain control and compliance in this hyper-connected, hyper-distributed IT environment, Cisco and its partners are […]
What’s the 411 on OpenStack based Summit Collaboration in Vancouver?
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Last week, I was prepping for the 11th OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, when I suddenly had a question pop up. How on earth would I, much less over a hundred of us, from Cisco communicate at an international destination in an easy and organized way? Some group ideas were: Temporary international data plans for $30 […]
OSPod #31: Anne Gentle
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I know I often say nice things about the guests on this podcast–because they routinely blow me away with their technical acumen and genuine enthusiasm–but really, there aren’t enough nice words in the dictionary to adequately express my fondness for Anne Gentle. She’s been an exceptional contributor to OpenStack as the project team lead for documentation, […]