IREN Ltd, a provider of cloud infrastructure services, today revealed its intent to acquire Mirantis, a provider of open source OpenStack and Kubernetes software that is deployed in both cloud computing and on-premises IT environments. Under terms of the agreement valued at $625 million, Mirantis will operate as an independent subsidiary of IREN, a former […]
Consortium Driving OpenStack to Become Arm of The Linux Foundation
The Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra), which oversees the development of the open source OpenStack cloud computing framework, this week agreed to become an arm of The Linux Foundation as part of an effort to foster more collaboration with maintainers of projects such as Kubernetes and the Linux operating system.
Latest OpenStack Release Extends Scope and Reach of Cloud Platform
The latest edition of the OpenStack framework released this week adds an ability to reserve instances of graphical processor units (GPUs) along with a revamped user interface (UI) that promises to make the cloud management framework more accessible.
The Past, Present and Future of OpenStack
OpenStack, described as the world’s most widely deployed open source cloud software, will mark its 12-year anniversary milestone later in 2022. In September 2012, the OpenStack Foundation launched as an independent organization to manage and promote the technology—a watershed moment for a project announced just two years earlier. Today, with contributions from more than 34,000 […]
OpenStack Delivers Ussuri Update
The OpenStack community today officially released Ussuri, an update to the cloud management framework that tightens integration between components including the ability to automatically provision bare-metal servers using the Ironic IT automation framework built for that purpose. In addition, the community has added IPv6 support to the Kuryr project for integrating OpenStack with container networking […]
Deploying OpenStack: Pick a Distribution With These 7 Qualities
OpenStack, which turns 10 years old in July, remains the leading open source infrastructure component in private clouds. But, there is a plethora of OpenStack distributions out there, and selecting the right one is vital to the success of every organization’s OpenStack project. How do you know which is best? It’s an important question because, […]
Red Hat Updates OpenStack Platform
Red Hat today made available an update to its distribution of OpenStack that enables it to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 operating system. Sean Cohen, senior manager for product management at Red Hat, said Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16 combines three releases of OpenStack, known as “Rocky,” “Stein” and “Train” into a […]
Mirantis Adds Modeling Tool to Configure Private Cloud
At the Open Infrastructure Summit conference, Mirantis today unfurled a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application through which IT administrators can employ modeling tools to configure private clouds based on either OpenStack or Kubernetes. Boris Renski, chief marketing officer for Mirantis, said rather than having to manually configure a private cloud for an on-premises IT environment using YAML […]
Nokia Releases Upgraded CloudBand Infrastructure Software to Secure 5G Cloud Deployments, Enhance Service Delivery and Reduce Costs for Customers
New converged CloudBand Infrastructure Software delivers secure, unified virtual infrastructure management software to secure 5G cloud deployments The new release includes OpenStack directly from the open source community in order to move new capabilities to customers faster and to support the smaller footprint required for edge deployments Enables management of virtual machines (VM) and containers […]
OpenStack and Open Source MANO: Technologies for NFV Deployment
We have experienced how open source software technologies revolutionized the application development process, which ultimately resulted in digital transformation across various industry verticals. Open source technologies now are disrupting the telecom sector for building 5G internet, which will be powered by network functions virtualization (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN). With NFV and SDN, multiple […]