Tag Archives: CloudStack

April 2, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Alcatel Lucent Enters the SDN Fray

By Ben Kepes

You know something has moved from being just something the cognoscenti talk about to being known on a widespread basis when traditional companies start talking it up. In the case of Software Defined Networking (SDN) some would say that the notion has already jumped the shark as we hear about

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March 22, 2013 Posted in Business 6 Comments

CloudStack Graduates to an Apache Top Level Project

By Ben Kepes

Almost a year ago Citrix scored a coup when it’s CloudStack product (which itself was formerly the cloud operating system known as cloud.com) was elevated to the cloud platform of the Apache foundation. It was all the more interesting sine Cloud.com were founding members of OpenStack and the war of

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November 6, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Apache releases CloudStack 4.0 Incubating Release

By Ben Kepes

Open Source projects are great at encouraging chest thumping and misty eyes, but the really exciting thing about them is when they start to actually come to life – as in ship real products that can be used. Linux was an exciting idea when it was Linus Torvalds’ project at

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April 10, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

HP Moves its Public Cloud Into Publicly Available Beta

By Ben Kepes

Since the announcement last week that Citrix would be moving it’s CloudStack product to Apache, some of the move vociferous support for OpenStack has come from HP, a company that is an active member of OpenStack and has a private beta offering built on top of OpenStack out in the

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April 3, 2012 Posted in Business 7 Comments

Citrix Scores a Coup–CloudStack to Become Cloud Platform of the Apache Foundation

By Ben Kepes

[Addendum - I knew about this announcement a week ago. Out of respect for those who briefed me on it under embargo I have decided to hold to the embargo despite others decisions not to do so. Personally I feel that breaking embargos is bad form at best, unethical at

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