Category Archives: Cloud

Trusted Cloud Alliance Read more »

Trusted Cloud Alliance

While the shift to cloud infrastructures offers incredible potential to speed up the way companies adapt to changing business requirements, many companies are still sitting on the sidelines, warily watching the cloud revolution.  Why?  One word: Trust.  Can you trust a public or virtual private…


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Building Powerful Micro Clouds on the Cheap

When we set out to build our own internal clouds we wanted to deliver on four critical fronts:   Blazing fast performance   Strong enterprise features   Reasonable & controlled costs   No single points of failure Anyone who’s ever rolled out a virtualized infrastructure…


PentOS: Making OpenStack Enterprise Ready Read more »

PentOS: Making OpenStack Enterprise Ready

I was at the O’Reilly convention when Rackspace announced OpenStack and that was all anybody wanted to talk about after and for good reason.  OpenStack will be essential to preventing vendor lock in and making sure that there are open standards for cloud computing.  While…