Topic: openstack
StarlingX R6.0 released by Wind River
StarlingX, the platform that builds out infrastructure from the core to the edge by providing a scalable foundation with OpenStack, has reached its R6.0 release. The platform can be used to build out an organization’s central cloud and can be installed on the edge to manage a smaller pool of resources. In addition, the platform … continue reading
OpenStack Xena release takes aim at reducing technical debt
OpenStack announced the 24th release of its open-source cloud infrastructure software. Dubbed “Xena,” updates include new hardware features, improved integration among components, and a reduction of technical debt. The new release follows a new finding that organizations with deployments ranging from hundreds of cores to six million cores have logged significant growth according to the … continue reading
OpenStack Foundation to rebrand as Open Infrastructure Foundation in 2021
The OpenStack Foundation has announced that it is changing its name to Open Infrastructure Foundation (OIF) starting in 2021. According to the foundation, this name change reflects the organization’s broad commitment to driving innovations in open source that are needed in order to shape the future of infrastructure software. The OIF’s goal will be to … continue reading
StarlingX now a top-level OSF project
The OpenStack Foundation (OSF) has announced that StarlingX is now one of their top-level open infrastructure projects. StarlingX is an edge infrastructure platform that can be used to build edge clouds. It utilizes components from other open source projects like Ceph, Linux, KVM, OpenStack, and Kubernetes. The project was first created in May 2018 as … continue reading
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16 now available
Red Hat has announced the latest release of its Agile Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16 features new improvements and capabilities for enterprises working with hybrid clouds, developer clouds, production clouds and cloud-native applications. In addition, it takes on network functions virtualization, edge computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning. The … continue reading
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 is now available
The latest version of Red Hat’s infrastructure as a service solution is now available. Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 introduces improvements to performance and cloud security, as well as expanding the ecosystem of supported hardware. According to the company, IT organizations will now be able to “more quickly and more securely support demanding production workloads.” … continue reading
Morpheus multi-cloud management gets OpenStack, AWS CloudFormation and Dell EMC integrations
Cloud application management and orchestration company Morpheus Data released updates for its Morpheus multi-cloud management platform today, including enhanced OpenStack support, AWS CloudFormation automation support and support for storage and cloud using Dell Technologies. Morpheus explained that with the updates to its platform’s OpenStack integration, users can now orchestrate actions like creating OpenStack Octavia load … continue reading
OpenStack Rocky release comes with bare metal improvements
OpenStack announced the 18th release of its open-source cloud infrastructure software this week. While Rocky provides a number of new enhancements, the top two new improvements include to Ironic and Fast Forward Updates. Ironic is the software’s bare metal provisioning service. The latest release adds new management and automation catepbitlies to bare metal infrastructure and … continue reading
Kata Containers Project 1.0 tackles running containers at scale
The Kata Containers Project has reached version 1.0. Kata Containers is an open-source project designed to isolate containers with security similar to virtual machines, but without the performance burden associated with virtual machines. According to the team, the solution is a fast and secure deployment option for workloads of all types, from highly-regulated workloads to … continue reading
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 to accelerate customer software-defined infrastructure deployments
SUSE today unveiled SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8, its latest enterprise-ready OpenStack Cloud platform. Based on OpenStack Pike, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 is the first release to integrate the best of SUSE OpenStack Cloud and HPE OpenStack technology, which was acquired by SUSE last year. In addition to accelerating the deployment of software-defined infrastructure, it delivers better … continue reading
OpenStack ‘Queens’ release expands support for GPUs and containers to meet edge, NFV and machine learning workload demands
The OpenStack community today released Queens, the 17th version of the most widely deployed open source cloud infrastructure software. A packed release resulting from a six-month development cycle, Queens offers advancements benefiting not only enterprises with mission-critical workloads but also organizations investing in emerging use cases like containers, NFV, edge computing and machine learning. The … continue reading
