Cisco acquires OpenStack pioneer Piston Cloud
Cisco this week announced intentions to acquire Piston Cloud Computing, its second OpenStack cloud computing buyout in less than a year.
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.
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.
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.
VMware locally announced the launch of a series of product updates, including for vSphere and its VSAN storage platform.
The most important cloud acquisitions this year have one thing in common: OpenStack.
Japanese SDN company Midokura is giving away its keystone product.
Adding support for network functions virtualization (NFV) to its network-as-a-service platform meant that Pacnet had to delve into OpenStack's source code and modify Neutron — the open source cloud computing project's networking component.
Telstra on Monday said the Cisco Intercloud platform is now in live trial mode for selected customers in Australia, which the telco has declined to name.
OpenStack has a new top contributor: HP.
Cisco this week said it will acquire privately held Metacloud, an operator of private OpenStack clouds for global enterprises.
SDN start-up PLUMgrid launched networking software for OpenStack, a high profile customer and a new round of funding.
The cloud-dominated world of modern IT is the perfect breeding ground for the spread of Linux in particular and open-source software in general, according to the man responsible for guiding one of the most important open-source projects.
Dell expanded on its open networking initiative this week with a resale arrangement with SDN company Big Switch Networks.