The OpenStack platform is an open-source collaboration to develop a private cloud ecosystem, delivering IT services at web scale. OpenStack is divided into a number of discrete projects, each with a ...

High Speed SSD and Standard Storage Offerings Deliver Consistency and Scalability for Databases and I/O Intensive Applications Rackspace Cloud Block Storage screenshot (Photo: Business Wire) "The ...

Storage is one of the key building blocks of clouds, and so it was no surprise that storage technology was a key part of the recent OpenStack Summit. Several vendors used the conference to show a ...

While innovators in the HPC and hyperscale arenas usually have the talent and often have the desire to get into the code for the tools that they use to create their infrastructure, most enterprises ...

Building a cloud without storage is like building a house without closets, cupboards, cabinets, or garage space. In each instance, the finished product might elicit oohs and aahs from the outside, but ...

Sue Poremba is a freelance writer focusing primarily on security and technology issues and occasionally blogs for Rackspace Hosting. Cloud block storage is a new way of thinking about how you store ...