Resilience, not sovereignty, defines OpenStack's next chapter
OpenInfra Summit Price hikes, politics, and platform fatigue drive organizations back toward open alternatives
PaaS + IaaS31 Oct 2025 |
OpenStack
OpenStack in the pink with Flamingo release that escapes ancient Python constrictions
Project boss pleased to be getting on top of technical debt
PaaS + IaaS01 Oct 2025 |
OpenStack delivers ‘Epoxy’ release, which it hopes will unglue more VMware customers
The BBC and Blizzard Entertainment have chipped in with contributions
On-Prem03 Apr 2025 | 8
Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware to address bigger Broadcom bills
Exclusive New home, Platform9, says it’s also helping a Fortune 500 company to migrate 40,000 VMs
Virtualization05 Feb 2025 | 8
Rackspace is back with a seat on the OpenInfra Foundation board
Absence makes the cloud grow fonder
Systems23 Oct 2024 | 2
OpenStack Dalmatian debuts with a new dashboard, better security and GPU-wrangling
If you think VMware has gone to the dogs, maybe check it out?
Virtualization03 Oct 2024 | 4
BROADER TOPICS
Warren Buffett’s favorite insurer GEICO drops VMware for OpenStack
Seeks customizable cloud and less lock-in
Software28 Aug 2024 | 11
OpenStack pushes its first easy-to-upgrade release out the door
'Caracal' improves AI capabilities and is pitched as an alternative to VMware
Software04 Apr 2024 | 3
OpenStack thriving, survey says, but growth comes from a few big users
New markets harder to convince, says analyst
Off-Prem18 Nov 2022 | 3
OpenStack ends requirement for six-monthly upgrades with ‘SLURP’ plan
As version ‘Zed’ debuts, project slows down a little
Software06 Oct 2022 |
Here's OpenStack Platform 17 – aka what Red Hat hopes your network operator will one day use
The project with the thumbs up from CERN ... and China
OSes30 Sep 2022 |
Tencent completes 50 million core migration of its own apps to its own clouds
Pockets plenty of savings and illustrates success with the cutest cartoon sysadmin ever
Off-Prem17 Jun 2022 | 8
OpenInfra Foundation talks about Directed Funding model for open source projects
OpenInfra Berlin Notes rise of 'pay to play' where companies try to buy way into governance – and says this is not that
PaaS + IaaS14 Jun 2022 |
China’s GitHub clone makes all repos private pending mysterious ‘review’
Gitee apologises but won't explain why this is happening
Software20 May 2022 | 14
OpenStack Yoga stretches to support DPUs, more storage
Open Infrastructure Foundation boasts of growth, but observers note this is mostly existing users scaling up
PaaS + IaaS30 Mar 2022 |
Canonical: OpenStack is dead, long live OpenStack
It might not be trendy anymore, but apparently it keeps on selling
Off-Prem14 Mar 2022 | 13
OpenStack-to-the-edge darling StarlingX hits 6.0, makes useful config tweaks
Open-source, full-stack edge and industrial IoT software moves to Linux kernel 5.10
Edge + IoT03 Feb 2022 | 2
Open Infrastructure Foundation adopts cross-cloud resource manager Taibai
China-based FiberHome donated code after consultation – didn't just "throw it over the wall"
Off-Prem18 Nov 2021 |
OVHcloud to share its OpenStack automation for use in on-prem clouds
Also finds a way to bring its water-cooled servers to third-party bit barns, especially in Asia
Off-Prem17 Nov 2021 | 2
As UK-based Civo's Kubernetes service goes live, boss claims the big cloud rivals are overpriced
Interview 'There's a misconception in the industry that hyperscalers are cheap'
Off-Prem14 Oct 2021 | 1
Huh, it's as if something happened that made people not like CentOS so much
Ubuntu snatches top spot in 2020 OpenStack User Survey
OSes14 Jul 2021 | 29
China Mobile seeks $6bn for cloudy infrastructure refresh with Shanghai stock float
No US listing, no worries, for 939-million-customer colosso-telco that’s big on OpenStack
Off-Prem18 May 2021 | 1
OpenStack at 10 years old: A failure on its own terms, a success in its own niche
Analysis And with China’s web giants showing it is capable of enormous scale, there’s still plenty of potential
Devops22 Oct 2020 | 9
OpenStack haven OpenDev yanks Gerrit code review tool after admin account compromised for two weeks
Source warehouse asks users to verify recent project commits to ensure they’re not malicious
Security21 Oct 2020 | 1
OIF! Forget OpenStack Foundation, it's becoming Open Infrastructure Foundation - with new members, an expanded role
After 10 years of OpenStack, 'a lot has changed and we are changing with it'
SaaS19 Oct 2020 | 1
OpenStack's 10th birthday is next week, but you get the present of a new release today
Meet Victoria, who’s fond of K8s, security and complex networking
SaaS16 Oct 2020 | 2
OpenStack Ussuri flows in: Chief operating officer spies public cloud chip wars ahead
Plus: Python2 slithers away from 21st release of open source cloud infrastructure project
SaaS14 May 2020 | 1
Red Hat slips through Platform 16 to OpenStack wizarding world, says customers still want to run their own cloud
Interview With public cloud vendors now offering on-prem, why OpenStack? Cost and avoiding lock-in – Red Hat
SaaS24 Feb 2020 | 4
Just Docker room talk: Container upstart's enterprise wing sold to Mirantis, CEO out, Swarm support faces ax
Plans to continue with $35m to back Hub and Desktop. Yes, Kubernetes has truly won
Devops13 Nov 2019 | 31
Dodging derailment by SUSE, OpenStack Train is scheduled to arrive this week
Choo choo mothertruckers
Software15 Oct 2019 | 1
SUSE, what? Adoption's still growing, shrugs OpenStack Foundation
Attention has shifted away from VMs, however, COO tells El Reg
SaaS14 Oct 2019 | 2
BT adopts Ubuntu OpenStack as core brains for its 5G, fibre-to-the-premises rollout
Canonical drags the telco into the 21st century
Software24 Jul 2019 | 36
Come join the Mirantis Kubernetes party, just be sure to BYOD – the D being distro, not drinks
KubeCon Europe Because all developers are special, afterall
Devops22 May 2019 | 1
The OpenStack Foundation would like everyone to just get along and play nice, m'kay?
Joss sticks lit at the Open Infrastructure Summit
Software07 May 2019 | 4
OpenStack wants Airship 1.0 to take flight and move devs up to the cloud without tears
Automated cloud provisioning joins the mile-high club
SaaS30 Apr 2019 | 1
Raise a Stein for OpenStack: Latest release brings faster containers, cloud resource management
But adds just one new module, and even that is more of a transplant
On-Prem10 Apr 2019 | 2
An offer you Kata refuse: OSF accepts virty container wizards as 'part of the family'
Making it the first new top-level project since 2012
Virtualization10 Apr 2019 | 8
Raise some horns: Red Hat's MetalKube aims to make Kubernetes on bare machines simple
OpenInfra Days UK 2019 Open-source project borrows bits of OpenStack
Software05 Apr 2019 |
SUSE on Cloud 9 for love-in with OpenStack and Kubernetes
SUSECON '19 Running HPE Helion? Time to start thinking about that 'seamless' transition
On-Prem02 Apr 2019 |
OpenStack 2018: Mark Shuttleworth chats to The Reg about 10-year support plans, Linus Torvalds and Russian rockets
Interview Like Ubuntu, hate upgrading? Canonical founder has good news. And a mighty, mighty beard
Software19 Nov 2018 | 14
Red Hat talks upgrades and bare metal with its new OpenStack Platform
Just don't mention those three Big Blue letters, OK?
SaaS15 Nov 2018 | 4
OpenStack: We've seen the future, and it's metal (and infrastructure, natch)
OpenStack Summit No need to learn Mandarin, we collaborate in English
Virtualization15 Nov 2018 |
Outside of Japan, Fujitsu KILLS the K5 cloud with 'immediate effect'
Another old world vendor to rely on hyperscale beasties... in this instance, Azure
SaaS15 Oct 2018 | 13
Playing nice with a host of tech-pushers pushed OpenStack close to edge
A cross-vendor framework for edge functionality is no small task
Software26 Jun 2018 | 1
OpenStack had a summit, so everyone's talking about it
A soft serve this week for hungry net admins
On-Prem24 May 2018 |
OpenStack makes Zuul continuous delivery tool its second indie project
Now you can develop just like a massive sprawling open-source infrastructure project
Devops22 May 2018 | 2
OpenStack 'Queens' struts into the spotlight
vGPUs, edge and automated containers are the headline acts for the 17th release
SaaS02 Mar 2018 | 1
OpenStack Foundation backs 'virtualized containers', for security's sake
'Kata Containers' blends every-container-gets-a-kernel tech from Intel and hyper.sh
Devops06 Dec 2017 | 2
Rackspace, HPE pitch pay-as-you-go private cloud
OpenStack to power first version of scalable clouds, Azure and VMware to follow
SaaS13 Nov 2017 | 4
Mirantis eyes continuous integration of all the things
OPENSTACK SYDNEY And waits for news on how OpenStack will govern its new outreach plans
Devops08 Nov 2017 |
OpenStack Foundation starts scoping machine learning enhancements
OPENSTACK SYDNEY Users want it and NVIDIA's already sniffing around
On-Prem07 Nov 2017 |
OpenStack says its work is largely done. Now your hard work can fill in the blanks
OPENSTACK SYDNEY Users asked to open-source custom connectors to the real world
On-Prem05 Nov 2017 | 10
OpenStack Pike release bites hard on microservices and scale
Project tries to move on to lifecycle management rather than initial setup
Software01 Sep 2017 |
Gone daddy gone: GoDaddy offloads its cloud businesses
PlusServer sold after eight months, Cloud Servers service snuffed after 16
SaaS24 Jul 2017 | 14
VMware prepping NSX-as-a-service running from the public cloud
VMworld content catalog lists live AWS services, Cross Cloud and OpenStack 4.0
Virtualization28 Jun 2017 | 1
The eternal battle for OpenStack's soul will conclude in three years. Again
Comment Beyond cars, toasters and American Gods
Software22 May 2017 | 9
NetApp seals up object storage garden wall with gap-filling products
Pimping up the range
Storage09 May 2017 |
Colliders, containers, dark matter: The CERN atom smasher's careful cloud revolution
No downtime till 2018
OSes25 Apr 2017 | 14
Huawei to build global cloud with bit barns run by different operators
They'll all look and behave the same, but you won't get one console to rule them all
SaaS24 Apr 2017 | 4
OpenStack: Pleeeeease stop panicking, Intel and Rackspace still love us
Also, er, yeah, Chipzilla pulled the plug on that big project
SaaS18 Apr 2017 | 7
Red Hat: OpenStack big, getting bigger, OpenShift fatter than Linux
IBM does help, too
OSes28 Mar 2017 | 6
In 2012 China vowed 'OpenStack will smash the monopoly of western cloud providers!'
And in 2017 Huawei replaced HPE as a Platinum Member of OpenStack Foundation
On-Prem14 Mar 2017 | 9