Deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 on NetApp Storage

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® OpenStack Platform and NetApp clustered Data ONTAP provide the foundation for a modern, supportable, integrated, and scalable hybrid cloud deployment. NetApp storage systems have been pre-integrated, pre-tested, and certified to work with the Red Hat OpenStack Platform to ensure an enterprise-grade hybrid cloud solution based on the OpenStack Juno platform.

Developing the next generation of Containerized applications with libcontainer

One of the great Container advances in 2014 was the advent of Docker. However, many people still don’t realise that Docker itself is really a Container application i.e. a consumer of containers technology rather than a provider of it (the containers currently used by Docker are provided by the Linux Kernel). This confusion comes about… Continue reading Developing the next generation of Containerized applications with libcontainer

The Next Step of OpenStack Evolution for NFV Deployments

NFV is now a well-known concept and in an early deployment stage, leveraging and adapting OpenStack and other Open Source Software systems. In the OPNFV project, a large group of industry peers is building a carrier-grade, integrated, open source reference platform for the NFV community. The telco industry has successfully adopted Open Source Software for… Continue reading The Next Step of OpenStack Evolution for NFV Deployments

A DevOps State of Mind

A DevOps State of Mind Rapid innovation, changing business landscapes, and new IT demands force businesses to make changes quickly. The DevOps approach is a way to increase business agility through collaboration, communication, and integration across different teams in the IT organization.  

Addressing storage management challenges using open source SDS controller

Cost pressures, explosive data growth and cloud workloads are driving the need for fundamental shift in how storage resources are being managed in the private cloud. In this session we present open Software Defined Storage (SDS) controller framework augmenting the OpenStack storage services (i.e., Cinder, Manila, Swift) to address storage management challenges and demonstrate an… Continue reading Addressing storage management challenges using open source SDS controller