As the private cloud market has matured, there are now a plethora of options for customers. Forrester Research breaks the market down into bite-size chunks and has some advice on how to choose which private cloud is right for you.
Cisco this week announced intentions to acquire Piston Cloud Computing, its second OpenStack cloud computing buyout in less than a year.
It started with <a href="https://twitter.com/jmckenty/status/601202657676566528">a Tweet</a> last week from Joshua McKenty: "OpenStack has lost its heart. Last summit I will attend."
Piston Cloud Computing was one of the darlings of the OpenStack movement. A founding father of the cloud computing project, it produced one of the first private cloud products based on the open source code.
Drivers such as data growth, software-defined data centre technologies, and the Internet of Things (IoT) continue to fuel Cloud adoption.
Former NASA CTO and co-founder of OpenStack, Chris Kemp, took the stage at CeBit Australia 2015 to challenge proprietary Cloud models and the virtues of an open standards Cloud environment.
Citrix has become a corporate sponsor of the Openstack Foundation after leaving in 2012. The move will help drive open standards interoperability for its Cloud infrastructure and networking products.
One of the first casualties of the OpenStack world is Nebula, a company founded by a of the pioneer of the open source cloud computing movement.
Hyper converged infrastructure company, Nutanix, has launched a new technology certification - the Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX).
It's a busy time for container technology in the cloud computing market: IBM this week at its InterConnect conference in Las Vegas announced broad support for containers in its hybrid cloud computing software, while Google partnered with OpenStack distributor Mirantis to enable container technology capabilities in the open source cloud platform.
Red Hat has released new enterprise virtualisation software which allows organisations to deploy an IT infrastructure that services traditional virtualisation workloads, while creating a foundation for cloud infrastructure.
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has launched new capabilities for the Hitachi Content Platform with its S10 release.
Dell has expanded its Open Networking initiative to include Midokura, a company focused on network virtualisation, in a bid to bolster its networking and server infrastructure.
The most important cloud acquisitions this year have one thing in common: OpenStack.
Japanese SDN company Midokura is giving away its keystone product.
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By Kalyan Madala, CTO, IBM ASEANZK
