The division of Sony that suffered a cyberattack last year, which led to a major PlayStation network outage and sensitive customer data being compromised, has dropped Amazon Web Services for at least ...

Mirantis, once a pure-play OpenStack vendor, took its first step out of the data center Tuesday, leveraging recent investments in container-tech to find a hybrid cloud posture. The latest version of ...

OpenStack is the industry’s most successful private cloud technology. That may not be enough. As Gartner analyst Alan Waite posits, there are a limited number of use cases for which OpenStack actually ...

In a move deemed by some as “batshit crazy,” Rackspace is said to be cloning its cloud services and making it available to the public. This move to counter the success that Amazon is having with its ...

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Randy Bias, CTO CloudScaling, a cloud pioneer and OpenStack board member, wrote an open letter to the OpenStack community today about the need to embrace AWS/ AWS API. It is timed interestingly, with ...

Rackspace CEO Taylor Rhodes is disarmingly honest about the ride the company has been on in recent years. This is what happens, he says, "when the world's largest bookseller comes into your industry." ...

Cloudscaling CTO Randy Bias wrote an open letter to OpenStack today. In it he outlines why the open cloud effort will only win if it accepts Amazon Web Services (AWS) and creates a compatible API. He ...

IT organizations are moving to the public cloud in droves to take advantage of cost savings and efficiency improvements over traditional on premise datacenters. The public cloud offers the promise of ...