OpenStack

OpenStack® Board Elects Troila Technology as Gold Member of the Foundation

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Monday, November 4, 2019

SHANGHAI, Nov. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --At the Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai, the Board of Directors of the OpenStack Foundation elected Troila Technology , a cloud provider serving the enterprise and government sectors in China, as a new Gold Member of the Foundation.

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  • SHANGHAI, Nov. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --At the Open Infrastructure Summit Shanghai, the Board of Directors of the OpenStack Foundation elected Troila Technology , a cloud provider serving the enterprise and government sectors in China, as a new Gold Member of the Foundation.
  • Established in 2009, Troila Technology is a 2 billion RMB corporate-level provider of information technology services.
  • "Troila Technology has clearly shown the community and the board its commitment to OpenStack and other OSF projects like Kata Containers," said Mark Collier, COO, OpenStack Foundation.
  • Troila Technology is exactly the kind of gold member the Foundation needs: engaged, innovative and growing."

Airship Delivers OpenStack and Kubernetes at Scale, Earns Confirmation as Top-Level OSF Project

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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Starting from bare metal, Airship manages the full lifecycle of infrastructure to deliver a production-grade Kubernetes cluster with Helm-deployed artifacts, including OpenStack-Helm.

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  • Starting from bare metal, Airship manages the full lifecycle of infrastructure to deliver a production-grade Kubernetes cluster with Helm-deployed artifacts, including OpenStack-Helm.
  • Airship allows operators to manage their infrastructure deployments and lifecycle through the declarative YAML documents that describe an Airship environment.
  • Confirmation by the OSF conveys recognition of a project's success in meeting the goals of the pilot process and a commitment from the OSF to continue supporting the project .
  • Airship became an OSF pilot project in May 2018 and was confirmed on October 22, 2019.

Mirantis Partners With OpenStack Foundation to Support Upgraded COA Exam

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Thursday, October 17, 2019

CAMPBELL, Calif., Oct. 17, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mirantis announced today that it is providing resources to the OpenStack Foundation , including becoming the new administrators of the upgraded Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) exam.

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  • CAMPBELL, Calif., Oct. 17, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mirantis announced today that it is providing resources to the OpenStack Foundation , including becoming the new administrators of the upgraded Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) exam.
  • We are excited to collaborate with Mirantis, who has stepped up to provide the resources needed to manage the COA, including the administration of the vendor-neutral OpenStack certification exam.
  • During the three years of the COA offering, nearly 3,000 professionals across 77 countries have taken the exam, providing qualified talent to meet the growing number of OpenStack job opportunities.
  • Anyone interested in becoming a COA can buy an exam through the OpenStack website or through one of the many OpenStack training partners in the marketplace .

OpenStack Train Release Extends Security and Data Protection, Adds New AI and ML Support

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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

***The OpenStack Train release will be available for download at 9am CDT on Wednesday, October 16, 2019.

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  • ***The OpenStack Train release will be available for download at 9am CDT on Wednesday, October 16, 2019.
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    "OpenStack is the market's leading choice of open-source infrastructure for containers, VMs and bare metal in private cloud," said Mark Collier, COO of the OpenStack Foundation.
  • For the Train release, OpenStack received 25,500 code changes by 1,125 developers from 150 different companies.
  • "With the Train release, the community has delivered features targeting emerging use cases like AI and ML while improving data security and infrastructure resource management for enterprises."

Adaptec® Smart Storage Offering is First to Include Open Source Toolkit for Managing Data Center Storage

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Thursday, October 10, 2019

Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP) is the first to address this need by offering production-ready open source tools for managing its Adaptec Smart Storage HBA, SmartHBA and SmartRAID offerings in OpenStack data centers.

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  • Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP) is the first to address this need by offering production-ready open source tools for managing its Adaptec Smart Storage HBA, SmartHBA and SmartRAID offerings in OpenStack data centers.
  • By investing in and offering readily deployable open source tools and plug-ins, Microchip removes complexity for customers that are connecting storage resources to its Adaptec lineup of storage controller solutions in heterogeneous data centers powered by OpenStack.
  • The prequalified and tested Adaptec Smart Storage tools are scalable and customizable, simplifying management of large networks of cloud servers within enterprise-class infrastructures.
  • The Adaptec Smart Storage open source tools and documentation including a manual and specification details are available at www.adaptec.com/support .

Red Hat Partners Help Promote Hybrid Cloud in APAC

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Monday, September 30, 2019

Some of such solutions are Red Hat Enterprise Linux , Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat OpenStack Platform .

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  • Some of such solutions are Red Hat Enterprise Linux , Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat OpenStack Platform .
  • Joining the Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider program has helped us widen our capabilities on Red Hat OpenStack and other Red Hat emerging technologies.
  • We can now better support our customers hybrid cloud journey by offering robust and flexible enterprise solutions with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenStack, Red Hat Ceph Storage to help them be more agile and efficient.
  • By integrating Red Hats scalable platform solutions such as Red Hat OpenStack and Red Hat OpenShift into our offerings, we can easily help customers to securely adopt hybrid cloud.

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 Enhances Infrastructure Security and Cloud-Native Integration Across the Open Hybrid Cloud

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Thursday, September 19, 2019

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 is built on the backbone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, the newest version of the worlds leading enterprise Linux platform.

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  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 is built on the backbone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, the newest version of the worlds leading enterprise Linux platform.
  • In addition to serving as the basis for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 guests are now supported for existing customers on the Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 long-life release.
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 15 will be available in the coming days via the Red Hat Customer Portal for Red Hat OpenStack Platform customers with active subscriptions.
  • Were collaborating with Red Hat to bring NVIDIAs powerful accelerated computing platform for modern workloads to Red Hat OpenStack Platform, adding our innovations and AI software partner ecosystem to their massively scalable offering.

StarlingX Community Delivers 2.0 Release Featuring Cloud-native Kubernetes Platform and Containerized OpenStack Stein

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Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Whereas StarlingX 1.0, released in 2018, provided a hardened OpenStack platform on dedicated physical servers, StarlingX 2.0 leverages further building blocks to build open infrastructure by delivering a hardened platform that integrates OpenStack and Kubernetes to provide flexibility, robustness and support for mixed workloads.

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  • Whereas StarlingX 1.0, released in 2018, provided a hardened OpenStack platform on dedicated physical servers, StarlingX 2.0 leverages further building blocks to build open infrastructure by delivering a hardened platform that integrates OpenStack and Kubernetes to provide flexibility, robustness and support for mixed workloads.
  • StarlingX is a complete edge cloud infrastructure platform for bare metal, VMs and containers, providing high availability (HA), quality of service (QoS), performance and low latency.
  • Out-of-tree patches continue to decline with the new release of StarlingX, and plans are to eliminate them entirely with the Train release this fall.
  • Members of the StarlingX community will gather at the next OpenStack Open Infrastructure Summit in Shanghai, November 4-6, at the following sessions:

Platform9 Raises $25 Million to Power Cloud-native Infrastructure, Managed Kubernetes and Hybrid Cloud Environments Across the Globe

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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Platform9 offers the industry's only SaaS-managed Hybrid Cloud solution that delivers fully automated day-2 operations with 99.9 percent SLA for Kubernetes, bare-metal, and VM-based environments.

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  • Platform9 offers the industry's only SaaS-managed Hybrid Cloud solution that delivers fully automated day-2 operations with 99.9 percent SLA for Kubernetes, bare-metal, and VM-based environments.
  • Built on open source cloud frameworks Kubernetes and OpenStack delivered as a service, Platform9 enables large enterprises to easily run cloud-native infrastructure at scale without the operational pain.
  • "Platform9 brings an industry-first SaaS-managed hybrid cloud model, which firmly establishes a new standard for how 'clouds everywhere' on-premises infrastructure or enterprise public cloud environments - will be managed.
  • Platform9 ( platform9.com ) delivers a SaaS-managed hybrid cloud solution that turns existing infrastructure into a cloud, instantly.

VMware Expands Telco and Edge Cloud Portfolio to Enable Better Connectivity and Automation for Communication Service Providers and Enterprises

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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

With VMware Smart Assurance and VIO 6.0, communication service providers will gain an automated approach to operational intelligence to reduce service impact and operational expenses.

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  • With VMware Smart Assurance and VIO 6.0, communication service providers will gain an automated approach to operational intelligence to reduce service impact and operational expenses.
  • Leveraging VMware Integrated OpenStack, communication service providers can manage multiple Edge sites from a single centralized data center, thereby reducing overall footprint at the Edge while optimizing network performance.
  • The latest release of VMware Integrated OpenStack 6.0 includes support for Kubernetes, thus giving communication service providers a cloud native platform for container-based applications and services.
  • CSPs and enterprises will benefit from the multi-cloud interoperability, uniformity in architecture and consistency in policies across private, public, telco and Edge clouds provided by VMware, said Shekar Ayyar, executive vice president and general manager, Telco and Edge Cloud, VMware.