Video: OpenStack and its Open Source Cloud

Open Stack, the open cloud software project that got its start with Rackspace Hosting and NASA, has grown into an open source collaboration among 80 companies and more than 1,100 individual programmers. It now has three projects deployed – OpenStack Compute, OpenStack Object Storage and OpenStack Image Service – and the development effort continues. At the GigaOM Structure 2011 conference last week, I caught up with Rackspace’s Jonathan Bryce and asked him about the history of Open Stack, the latest developments and the future roadmap for the project. This video runs about 7 minutes.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/06/28/video-openstack-and-its-open-source-cloud/

DreamHost Offers Support for the Development of OpenStack

DreamHost, a global full-service Web hosting company, announced its decision to support the development of OpenStack, an open source cloud operating system. DreamHost has been supporting open source software and the open source community for years. OpenStack is expected to open standards for public and private clouds, and DreamHost wants to assist the OpenStack project to mature through their ongoing contributions.

http://it.tmcnet.com/topics/it/articles/190544-dreamhost-offers-support-the-development-openstack.htm

Cisco and OpenStack

OpenStack is the new star in the open cloud business, but some of the companies working with it aren’t known for their open source credentials. Take Cisco, which has more often run into trouble with open source than been known as a great contributor to it. Simon Bisson caught up with Cisco’s cloud computing CTO Lew Tucker to find out what the networking giant was planning.

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Cisco-and-OpenStack-1266885.html

OpenStack実用化への勢い ～NASAは開発から使う立場へシフト

今回は、連載第3回「OpenStack Compute、Novaの利用方法」の予告から予定を変更して、2011年4月末に米国西海岸で開催された開発者の会議であるデザインサミットでのトピックを中心に、その後のコミュニティー動向も含めて、OpenStackプロジェクトの今後について紹介する。

http://techtarget.itmedia.co.jp/tt/news/1106/23/news03.html

Calxeda Joins OpenStack Community; Leads ARM-based Server Movement for Emerging "Green Clouds"

Austin, TX, June 22, 2011 – Calxeda, the company changing the data center and server market with high performance, low power semiconductors, today announced it has joined OpenStack, the global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. Calxeda joins the OpenStack community to help extend cloud offerings to ARM-based server systems, and commits to fully supporting the OpenStack project and ecosystem.

http://www.design-reuse.com/news/26711/arm-based-server-green-cloud.html

Opscode Eyes Enterprise Clouds with Private Chef

Effective automation is a critical step in making cloud computing work. One of the leading players in the cloud automation sector, Opscode, has made a series of announcements today that highlight the growth of the company and expand its services to the private cloud market. Opscode rolled out the new announcements at the start of the O’Reilly Velocity Conference, a three-day event in Santa Clara, Calif. focused on boosting performance in large-scale web infrastructure. The company announced the general availability of its Hosted Chef, its hosted platform to automate cloud infrastructure. Opscode also introduced Private Chef, which packages its server configuration management tools in an appliance that can run behind a corporate firewall.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/06/14/opscode-eyes-enterprise-clouds-with-private-chef/

Cloud Computing Reviews StackOps Distribution Offers an Introduction to OpenStack Cloud

OpenStack is out to be the Linux of the cloud infrastructure world—the project, founded by NASA and Rackspace, is aimed at rounding up the various compute, storage and networking components that make up a public or private cloud into an open-source cloud operating system. Just as most people who use and deploy Linux rely on distributions to take care of the many packaging and configuration details required to get up and running, the OpenStack world will have its own distributions.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/StackOps-Distribution-Offers-an-Introduction-to-OpenStack-Cloud-679865/

Rackspace Hosting to Present at Investor Conferences in June

SAN ANTONIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Rackspace® Hosting, Inc. (NYSE: RAX) announced that Jason Luce, vice president of finance, and Bryan McGrath, director of finance, will present at William Blair & Co 31st Annual Growth Stock Conference on Tuesday June 14, 2011 at 2:50 p.m. Central in Chicago.  Audio webcasts of the presentations will be available on the Rackspace Web site, located at http://ir.rackspace.com.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110613006044/en/Rackspace-Hosting-Present-Investor-Conferences-June

IaaS構築ソフトのOpenStack新版が公開、仮想マシンのサーバー間移動が可能に

OpenStackは2011年4月15日、仮想マシンや仮想ストレージなどのITインフラを提供するIaaSを構築できる「OpenStack」の最新版となる「Cactus」を公開した。IaaS構築ソフトとして必要な機能が一通りそろった。　OpenStack Cactusは、オープンソースのIaaS（Infrastructure as a Service）構築プラットフォームだ。仮想マシンや仮想ネットワークといった複数ある仮想化ソフトを統合管理する“司令塔”として動作し、クラウドサービスとして運用するためのAPIやユーザーインタフェースを提供する。

http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/COLUMN/20110615/361427/?ST=oss

Seven Questions for Rackspace CTO John Engates

In a completely rational world, Rackspace would no longer be an independent company. The Web host that has in recent years veered into the cloud services business has held steady to its independent streak as several of its rivals have been rolled up by larger companies. In fact, assumptions that Rackspace would be next have spurred much of the growth in the company’s stock price, which has in recent weeks been trading at historic highs, and the shares are up more than 35 percent just since January.

http://allthingsd.com/20110615/seven-questions-for-rackspace-cto-john-engates/

Citrix Commercializes OpenStack With ‘Project Olympus’

Citrix will soon be rolling out a new OpenStack product that would let customers build private or public clouds. The company has added Project Olympus, a new cloud product, to its open cloud computing portfolio to complement its Citrix NetScaler Cloud Gateway and NetScaler Cloud Bridge. Citrix Systems announced Project Olympus, a new cloud infrastructure product based on the open-source cloud operating system OpenStack, at Citrix Synergy a few weeks ago. It will be the first commercialized version of OpenStack and will begin shipping later this year, Citrix said.

http://virtualization.com/2011/06/14/citrix-commercializes-openstack-with-project-olympus/

Openstack VS. Closed Clouds – The AOL Factor

Cloud computing is here, and it’s real. It is, as we hear more often these days, The Future of Computing. If you’re not yet leveraging cloud computing to streamline IT operations, you soon will be, or you’ll be left behind by your competition. All of this, in the dizzyingly accelerated pace of IT evolution, is old news. The question facing most CIOs today is not “should I start using cloud computing?” but rather “which cloud provider should I choose?” There are now a number of public cloud providers to choose from, and the list is growing quickly. There are various criteria that one might consider. I urge you to consider two new criteria: history and the future.

http://www.cio.com/white-paper/684245/Openstack_VS._Closed_Clouds_The_AOL_Factor

OpenStack Social Media Survey Results

Over the past week, the OpenStack Community Management team has conducted an online Social Media Engagement survey to better understand the needs and wants of various community member types in relation to the information available. The survey results are available, SurveySummary_06082011 with no details on the participants who answered questions. Based on these results, we are taking the following three actions to meet the needs of the community:

http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/06/openstack-social-media-survey-results/

Hold the Date – OpenStack Conference

The OpenStack Community requests that you mark your calendars as booked for October 5-7, 2011 for the OpenStack Conference in Boston, MA. With an opening reception on the evening of October 5 and two full days of all things OpenStack, this conference is the must attend event for open source enthusiasts, cloud computing technologists, and OpenStack participating company ecosystem partners.

More details soon to come from OpenStack on this event.

http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/06/hold-the-date-openstack-conference/

Will the Cloud Ever Be Truly Open?

Momentum is gaining for an open, interoperable cloud, although the question remains whether user preferences will actually trump big business concerns this time around.  Unlike the open computing movements of the past, however, this one seems to have real teeth. The Open Data Center Alliance just published a set of requirements and usage models aimed at fostering a universal, open cloud environment. The package includes guidance on security, automation, management and policies, but that’s not the most important takeaway here. Rather, it’s the fact that in just seven months the alliance has managed to cobble together some 280 global leaders that represent more than $100 billion in IT spending every year. Only with that kind of clout do open technologies stand a chance against entrenched financial interests.

http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/cole/will-the-cloud-ever-be-truly-open/?cs=47327

User Alliance Wants Cloud Interoperability

An alliance dominated by large cloud users and representing $100 billion in annual IT spending is asserting itself to bring greater interoperability to cloud computing in the face of supplier foot dragging. The Open Data Center Alliance, a vendor neutral group with a steering committee composed of Lockheed Martin, China Life, Deutsche Bank, CapGemini, the Australia National Bank, and other powerful users, has issued requirements for eight cloud use cases.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/cloud-computing/infrastructure/230400015

VMware dominance to remain despite contest

Errol Rasit, principal research analyst at Gartner, labeled groups such as the Open Virtual Alliance (OVA), which include Red Hat, IBM, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Intel, and OpenStack, with notable members including Cisco Systems, Rackspace Hosting and Citrix, as “credible”. Competition from these coalitions, he noted in a phone interview, was “good for customers” in terms of lowering costs and offering choice. The OVA was announced on May 17, according to a report by ZDNet Asia’s sister site, ZDNet UK. It aims to make the open-source Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor the fundamental layer on which the cloud is virtualized, it stated.

http://www.zdnetasia.com/vmware-dominance-to-remain-despite-contest-62300608.htm

さまざまなクラウドサービスを統一的に操作できるライブラリ「Apache Libcloud」、ASFのトップレベルプロジェクトに

The Apache Software Foundation（ASF）は5月25日（米国時間）、さまざまなクラウドサービスに対応するクライアントライブラリインターフェイス「Apache Libcloud」をTop Level Project（TLP）にしたことを発表した。Libcloudはさまざまなクラウドプロバイダとのインターフェイスを提供する標準クライアントライブラリ。Pythonライブラリとして実装されており、各クラウドプロバイダAPIとのインターフェイスを提供する。これを用いることでAmazon EC2、Eucalyptus、OpenStack、IBM Cloud、RackSpace Cloud、GoGrid、vCloudなどを統一的な方法で操作できる。

http://sourceforge.jp/magazine/11/05/26/0358215

【LinuxTutorial】Natty がリフレッシュ、Slackware ユーザーは歓喜

Linux Planet が回るのは Linux ディストリビューションがリリースされるおかげだ。4月最終週はリリースのラッシュで、タイプの大きく異なる2つのディストリビューションが最新かつ最高の製品をリリースしている。また、同じく Web ブラウザもリリースラッシュで、Linux 用に新しい Firefox と Chrome の両ブラウザが登場している。

http://japan.internet.com/webtech/20110516/1.html

OpenFlow と、NDDI、OS3E とは？

Internet2 、、、つまり、Indiana University と Stanford University の Clean Slate Program が形作る Network Development and Deployment Initiative (NDDI) とは、革新的な方式でグローバルな学術研究を支援する、新しいネットワーク･プラットフォームと補足的なソフトウエアを、構築していくためのパートナーシップのことである。 それぞれのパートナーからの相当額の投資により、Open Science, Scholarship and Services Exchange (OS3E) と呼ばれる Internet2 Network を、NDDI がもたらすことになるだろう。

http://wp.me/pwo1E-2YY