OpenStack is providing a powerful tool for companies and the open-source community, but there’s a second world that is often ignored in the discussion. Networking is the world behind the scenes, moving the data that makes Cloud technologies work. While OpenStack itself is not a networking solution, it does have an effect on the people ...

There’s no question the Cloud is the future of tech business, but remote computing is nothing unless a company can run its applications there. This has been something of a challenge. Moving established operations to the Cloud requires time, money and skilled people who can juggle between traditional and new wave technology. There’s a market ...

As a popular system for connecting private clouds, OpenStack’s open-source community has spent considerable time and effort expanding its reach when it comes to providing solutions. Now, at OpenStack Summit — Austin, the current state of OpenStack is on display. To discuss what OpenStack has to offer and where it might go, Stu Miniman (@stu), Brian Gracely (@bgracely), ...

The cloud is a strange place for data storage. The usual advantages of the cloud don’t apply to storage. Normally, a company can buy cloud resources as they need, growing or shrinking their investment on demand. Data, though, doesn’t go away. It grows. That data must be stored and managed in a way that few ...

Those who prowl the dark alleys of OpenStack deployments know the word on the street is “containers.” Containers have many advantages for Cloud computing, but the trick is keeping them under control. Like any other part of a complex system, containers must be managed. This task quickly becomes exponentially difficult. An effective container-management solution is ...

Big Data might collect every scrap of information it can get from customer interactions, but the most valuable tool for figuring out what customers want is to simply ask them. That’s the purpose of the OpenStack User Survey, a questionnaire sent out to users, vendors, decision makers and other industry people across the tech world. ...

In the past few years, open-source software has gone from a buzzword to a bedrock. Many businesses rely on open source to run their technology solutions, and the number of vendors providing that software is only increasing. Nowhere is this more evident than with OpenStack, an open-source solution for Cloud computing. To gain insight on ...

Big Data is a powerful technology for business, but that power is even more important in the world of science. While business collects data on customers and processes, science can create staggering amounts of information with a single experiment. Often, that data can take years to work through by conventional means. Big Data processing can ...

Coming together at the end of day two for the Hadoop Summit Dublin 2016 conference, John Furrier (@furrier) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, shared a table to discuss the events of the convention. Of note, they also talked about their insights into the future of the Big Data open-source ...

The business world is on the cusp of a great transformation. Digital technologies are changing the world, yet the most profound revolution in how business gets done is still to come. Digital assets are growing in value, while automation isn’t just empowering workers, but replacing them entirely. This trend can best be seen in companies ...