BOSTON — On the third day of the OpenStack Summit 2017 this week, there was a session entitled “What is OpenStack?” I found that kind of curious. You would think most people attending an OpenStack ...

IBM becomes new de facto leader of OpenStack project after announcing all its cloud products will be built around core OpenStack bits When IBM announced last week that all of its cloud offerings would ...

A survey of OpenStack users, done by members of the OpenStack Foundation has found that Ubuntu is by far the most widely used operating system with OpenStack, not Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS ...

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has left a lot of customers uneasy (and with rising bills). For the longest time, VMware was the de facto standard for enterprise virtualization. Now, a lot of ...

Suwon, South Korea: Quite discreetly, the OpenInfra Foundation and the open-source projects it promotes (such as OpenStack, and the Kata Containers, virtual machines (VM) as containers) are changing ...

Security improvements and confidential computing enhancements are also part of OpenStack 2025.2, known as Flamingo.

Flexible release cadence: Flamingo is a six-month "non-SLURP" release, designed for operators who want faster upgrades between the community's annual SLURP releases. The next SLURP release, OpenStack ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The OpenStack Liberty release, set to become generally ...

There seems to be a perception that the cloud infrastructure OpenStack software is primarily used by service providers and not used so much by enterprises. At last week’s OpenStack Summit in Vancouver ...

OpenStack, the venerable open source cloud controller born in 2010 out projects pulled together by Rackspace Hosting and NASA, continues to push on despite its death being predicted myriad times over ...

Engineers at VCE, which is the company formed when EMC and Cisco came together with investments from VMware and Intel to create a converged infrastructure platform, are exploring how VCE vBlocks can ...

Open Virtual Network (OVN) 24.03 delivers performance improvements and the latest security patches, plus a clear, validated path to move off Open vSwitch (OvS)-the long-used networking backend in ...