Category Private Cloud
Forget About Your OpenStack Upgrades
Upgrades. Few IT activities are as important yet heartburn-inducing as upgrading a major system. Often upgrades mean service disruption, both expected and sometimes unexpected, which can negatively affect businesses. Often the cause is unreliable software and/or lack of operational expertise. I’ve worked with and for enterprise customers who had policies of not upgrading until a particular […]
Enabling Software Defined Storage as a Service with OpenStack and Ceph
Data storage growth is both a reality and a burden for today’s enterprises. With the move to digital, big data and, data intensive workloads, enterprises are storing an increasing amount of data, growing 30-40 percent per year, according to Vanson Bourne LTD. Much of this growth comes from applications running on cloud platforms such as […]
OpenStack Summit Day 2 Recap: The Future is Multi-Cloud
Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation, kicked off day two of the Summit by tying it back to the first day’s keynote about the challenge of meeting the scalability requirements of projects such as the Square Kilometer Array radio telescope. The SKA project is expecting to require multi-exaFLOPS — that’s one quintillion (10^18) […]
OpenStack Summit Day 1 Recap: OpenStack for Work That Matters
Like the city in which we are meeting, the Barcelona OpenStack Summit feels both old and new at the same time. Barcelona is a new venue for the bi-annual Summit and as usual, there are an impressive number of first time attendees. But there is also a very familiar feel to the Summit this time — after […]
Rackspace Builds Highly Available Cloud Using Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Rackspace is known for our expertise building highly available solutions for our customers, so it should be no surprise that we’ve been able to apply that competency to managed OpenStack solutions for both our upsteam offering and Rackspace Private Cloud powered by Red Hat. or PRC-R. I provided some details in my previous post, about RPC-R’s reference […]
The Architecture Behind Rackspace Private Cloud Powered by Red Hat OpenStack
When Rackspace and Red Hat came together to create a managed private cloud, we knew this offering needed to support enterprises looking to transform themselves using the latest technological innovations. Rackspace Private Cloud Powered by Red Hat, RPC-R for short, was architected to meet stringent enterprise requirements such as availability, stability and manageability, while helping […]
Assembling OpenStack as a Service with Rackspace and Red Hat
I am a huge comic book movie fan, loving the resurgence in popularity of superhero movies over the past decade. I particularly enjoy superhero team movies such the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s “Avengers.” There is something spectacular about watching individual heroes, powerful in their own right, accomplish even more by working together towards a common goal. […]
