Deploying a Hybrid Cloud with OpenStack: Dynamic Service Automation

Hybrid cloud represents the next evolution in enterprise cloud architecture and enables businesses to enjoy the best of both worlds: infrastructure resource elasticity with the flexibility of a public cloud, and the security, control and regulatory compliance of a private cloud. As ideal as hybrid cloud may sound, it still can face challenges from both… Continue reading Deploying a Hybrid Cloud with OpenStack: Dynamic Service Automation

Public or Private Cloud, Amazon Web Services or OpenStack

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides an easy on-ramp, simple swipe a credit card and you can start building clouds and cloud applications. OpenStack appears more complex: download, install, configure, manage, upgrade. So which do you use and when? In this session you will learn: What’s the difference between public, private, managed and hybrid clouds? Do… Continue reading Public or Private Cloud, Amazon Web Services or OpenStack

A Few Bat@#$% Crazy Things We Did to Scale OpenStack

As Rackspace has grown the footprint of it’s Public Cloud from a few hundred nodes in 3 regions to 10’s of thousands (and growing) running in 6 global locations, we’ve had to make choices along the way. Some of them were, even by our own assessment, pretty crazy! In this talk, we’ll dive into a… Continue reading A Few Bat@#$% Crazy Things We Did to Scale OpenStack

Moving an AWS Workload to OpenStack

You’ve decided to make the switch to OpenStack. Great! Now what do you do with all of those apps already running on Amazon Web Services? Fortunately, you can move them. That’s not to say it’s simple or straightforward. OpenStack’s functionality doesn’t always match that of AWS, and custom kernels on AWS machines make it impossible… Continue reading Moving an AWS Workload to OpenStack

Live Migration at HP Public Cloud

Live migration seems like magic – that you can take a running VM and swap its host without the VM or its users really noticing. But in some sense it’s not very “cloudy”. After all why live-migrate your pets if you can just start a new herd of cattle wherever you need them? At HP,… Continue reading Live Migration at HP Public Cloud

Enterprise Strategies for Cloud-Aware Apps

Enterprise IT needs more applications designed for cloud in order to take advantage of private cloud implementations and more efficiently use public cloud solutions. Leveraging the unique benefits of the cloud requires a specialized approach to application architecture. The right design enables business agility, massive scaling, ability to burst, and high resiliency. Plus, it promotes… Continue reading Enterprise Strategies for Cloud-Aware Apps

Cloud-Based Unisys Edge Service Management Available on Microsoft Azure in Latin America

Cloud Edge Service Management

Unisys Corporation today announced that Edge Service Management, the company’s cloud-based Service Management solution, is available across Latin America via Microsoft Azure. Edge Service Management is hosted locally in Brazil on Microsoft’s cloud computing platform. Because the solution is delivered on demand through a software-as-a-service model, it is also available to clients based in other… Continue reading Cloud-Based Unisys Edge Service Management Available on Microsoft Azure in Latin America

China Telecom Provider Uses SDN technology to Enable Public Cloud Services in China

Nuage Networks, the Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) start-up venture focused on SDN (software-defined networking) solutions, today announced that CTCC, the Cloud Computing Branch of China Telecom, has selected its SDN technology to help deliver secure, scalable, and self-serve public cloud services in China’s fast-growing cloud computing market. As part of the world’s largest… Continue reading China Telecom Provider Uses SDN technology to Enable Public Cloud Services in China