January 30th, 2013

Google Hangout With Rishidot Founder To Ask What’s The Big Deal About The Open Cloud

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The idea of the open cloud has different meanings. There are open infrastructure groups that are working toward federating clouds at the infrastructure level. These are groups such as OpenStack and Cloudstack, two of the most well-known efforts to help companies build their own clouds. → Read More

August 30th, 2012

What Is An Open Cloud And What Isn’t?

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Over the past few days I’ve been in San Francisco for VMware’s annual show and in San Diego to spend some time with  the technologists at CloudOpen – the Linux Foundation’s first cloud only event.

The two shows demonstrate how the cloud world is maturing.  And as it matures, the stakes will get higher. This is quite evident when you consider how much VMware is trying to move beyond its… → Read More

August 21st, 2012

4 Questions For Intel About The Open Cloud And The Changing World Of IT

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Services (AWS); Citrix via the now open source Cloudstack; OpenStack and a host of companies such as ManageIQ that are specializing in developing environments specifically tuned for enterprises to abstract the complexity of running cloud services over multiple platforms.

With this context in mind what is Intel seeing as the big shift in its own IT infrastructure? It’s top of mind for us as… → Read More