Gluster Wednesday materialized a Connector for OpenStack that will hitch the
GlusterFS file system to the OpenStack Compute block storage controller and
resolve a built-in limitation in the young open source cloud platform.
See, OpenStack can store data as objects, complements of its embedded
OpenStack Object Storage (a k a Swift), or it can store data as files,
complements of CEPH, which has just been contributed to the effort. It can't
do both at the same time.
Gluster says it can and is offering its widgetry to OpenStack as a core piece
of the stack.
The contribution is supposed to give OpenStack highly scalable, highly
available VM storage functionality and let users add scale-out integrated
file and object storage to any deployment.
What that means is that users can scale-out the number of VMs deployed in
their cloud environment and the widgetry will support t... (more)
Microsoft staged a Private Cloud Day Tuesday to herald the coming of System
Center 2012 sometime between now and the end of June.
System Center 2012 will put Microsoft squarely in the private cloud business
and put VMware's teeth on edge because it's cheaper and reportedly has the
same bells and whistles as VMware's widgetry.
According to IDC VMware will have to start competing on price.
Once Microsoft's private cloudware is out there it'll have the makings of a
hybrid model - which is what most people say they want - governed by the same
management tools and offering a consistent... (more)
The first OpenStack-based cloud operating system came out Wednesday.
The start-up Piston Cloud Computing Inc delivered the thing, which makes
sense since Piston's founders were instrumental in OpenStack, which is a
framework, not a product. The widgetry is called Piston Enterprise OS or
pentOS for short and it will sell for $3,500 a server a year, a price that
includes 24/7 telephone support.
Piston co-founder and CEO Joshua McKenty said Piston sold maybe 10 of the
things ahead of general availability and the code was destined for big iron
$250,000 hardware installations. People ... (more)
AT&T has joined OpenStack.
It's the first US telecom service provider to sign up for the free
Rackspace-NASA-spawned open source cloud initiative.
AT&T CTO John Donovan said AT&T has been participating in OpenStack for more
than a year and has contributed a blueprint for a potential new function in
OpenStack focused on transactional task management.
Donovan said the OpenStack IaaS is housed on dedicated infrastructure in AT&T
data centers in Dallas, San Diego and Secaucus, New Jersey, to start. The
company means to more than double the number of centers with open source
capabili... (more)
At the quarterly meeting of the cloud standards customer council held on
December 13, 2011, Fireclay Tile presented their story on using Salesforce as
a cornerstone of their success in leveraging cloud technology during
challenging times. The presenter was Eric Edelson, the VP and owner of
Fireclay Tile, not anyone from Information Technology (IT). That is because
at Fireclay Tile, there is no IT department! All IT work is managed by line
of business and delivered by cloud service providers. Fireclay Tile pays by
usage and hires appropriate integration providers to modify thei... (more)
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