OpenStack

May 12, 2015

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OpenStack and Containers

2 min read

Containers just might be the hottest technology in the business and quickly becoming a focal point within the OpenStack community and several members of the OpenStack team here at Cisco have been very involved. Daneyon Hansen and Steven Dake have helped me give a quick look at how Containers and OpenStack are coming together. Two […]

May 7, 2015

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OSPod #30: Edgar Magana of Workday

39 min read

If there was an award for “The Nicest Guy in OpenStack” my vote would be coin toss between Edgar Magana from Workday and Tim Bell of CERN. Actually, Sean Lynch, Metacloud Co-founder is right up there, too, but since he’s technically my boss’s boss, he’s inelgible for my vote. But I digress…. Edgar’s story begins […]

May 5, 2015

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A Kilo of Cisco Contributions

3 min read

“Voices of Cisco” is a short-term blog series that will feature insight from Cisco OpenStack experts in the lead-up to the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. The intent is to shine light on our involvement in the project, explain some of the newest features that are coming out, and explain how our own products are engineered […]

April 29, 2015

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Easy to Build, Easy to Manage: Cisco OpenStack Private Cloud

3 min read

What if a private cloud could give your developers the easy, fast, and predictable experience that public cloud delivers, but inside your own data center, behind your own firewalls?  It’s what more and more companies are looking to provide. Different clouds for different crowds Innovative organizations are increasingly deploying two modes of IT — traditional […]

April 29, 2015

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Preparing for the Next Big Wave in IT: The Intercloud’s Role in Digitization

5 min read

There is no question that we’re on the cusp of rapid IT evolution. Ten years ago, a small subset of IT managers and system administrators defined and drove infrastructure and services with a finite set of management tools for everyone’s use. In the emerging cloud world, the control of the data center has become segregated […]

April 23, 2015

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OSpod #28: An Interview with John Dickinson

39 min read

One of the original projects of OpenStack at the time that it launched was Swift, an Object Storage platform born out of Rackspace. A couple of months ago, we interviewed Joe Arnold, SwiftStack Founder and CPO. This week, we talked to John Dickinson, who serves as Director of Technology at SwiftStack and Project Technical Lead for the OpenStack Swift […]

April 16, 2015

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Five Reasons You Can’t Ignore OpenStack

3 min read

Five Reasons You Can’t Ignore OpenStack 1.    It’s growing dramatically. Source: OpenStack User Survey, November 2014 ·       The growth trajectory of OpenStack® is similar to that of Linux, and is on track to grow even faster. What started as a sandbox for developers has now become significantly more stable and mainstream. ·       Many larger […]

April 8, 2015

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OpenStack Podcast #26: Amrith Kumar

38 min read

Ready to learn about Trove? Oh, sure–you know it’s OpenStack’s database project. But do you really know what it does? Amrith Kumar is the founder and CEO of Tesora, and on OpenStack Podcast #26, he sat down with us to talk about Trove, Tesora, and the database applications they work with. Specifically, he covered: What […]

April 7, 2015

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The Farmers’ Market for Development Teams

1 min read

Some people are perfectly happy buying and eating pre-made microwaveable meals. These meals are rarely amazing. They’re never innovative. But they’re quick, perfectly consistent, and they get the job done. The only flexibility on the part of the consumer is which pre-made meal to pick. The decisions about what’s inside have been made for them, […]