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CloudOpen Keynote Q&A: OpenStack's Maffulli Says Open Cloud is New Frontier of Innovation

By Jennifer Cloer - August 2, 2012 - 7:32am

OpenStack's Stefano Maffulli is on the opening keynote panel at CloudOpen Wednesday morning August 29.

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Inktank’s Ceph: An Open Source Storage Solution for the Enterprise

By Libby Clark - July 31, 2012 - 7:15am

Editor’s Note: This profile is part of an ongoing weekly series on Leaders of the Open Cloud in advance of CloudOpen, Aug. 29-31 in San Diego.

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My Top Five Sessions at the CloudOpen Conference

By Amanda McPherson - July 27, 2012 - 7:32am

CloudOpen will make its debut in a little over a month in beautiful San Diego alongside LinuxCon. While it will still be the best deal in technology conferences, the registration price goes up on Sunday. (Why do I think it's a good deal? Two amazing conferences for the price of one, three amazing free as in beer parties, skateboarding lessons, hacker lounges and so on).

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Top Open Source Cloud Headlines Week of July 23

By Libby Clark - July 26, 2012 - 9:05am

This week's top open source cloud news features VMware's acquisition of Nicira; a Q&A with Citrix's Mark Hinkle; the pros and cons of open source cloud platforms for IT managers; and insider news that Nebula has enticed some Rackspace developers away. 

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The Linux Talent Draft is On

By Jennifer Cloer - July 25, 2012 - 1:47pm

Make no mistake: the Linux draft is on.

While the NFL season prepares to get underway there is an ongoing, intensive draft for Linux talent taking place right now.

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CloudOpen Q&A: SUSE's Michael Miller on Why Linux is the Natural OS for the Cloud

By Jennifer Cloer - July 25, 2012 - 1:24pm

In the latest of our LinuxCon and CloudOpen keynote Q&A series we talk to SUSE's Vice President of Global Alliances Michael Miller. Miller will be talking in his keynote at the events about how service-oriented clouds are bridging the divide between IT and lines of businesses. He also hinted twice during our conversatoin about a big announcement coming.

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OpenStack Quantum Project Aims to Define Future of Networking

By Libby Clark - July 25, 2012 - 12:25pm

Much debate has occurred recently over whether Amazon’s API should be considered a de facto standard by cloud computing service providers. Those who reject this notion (ahem, Lew Moorman) say you can’t clone Amazon’s cloud by copying its API alone.

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Ask a Kernel Maintainer

By Greg KH - July 25, 2012 - 11:27am

I've been writing an occasional "Ask a kernel maintainer" column on the lwn.net weekly kernel page. It's been a while since I last wrote one, so I figured it's time to start it up again.

So, consider this an open request for questions that you've always wondered, but never knew who to ask, or how to find the answer to, that you have had about the Linux kernel.

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Citrix’s Hinkle Proposes Linux Model for an Open Source Cloud

By Libby Clark - July 24, 2012 - 8:00am

As the Senior Director of Cloud Computing Community at Citrix, Mark Hinkle oversees Citrix efforts around the open source Apache CloudStack IaaS platform and Xen hypervisor projects.

Citrix is still very closely involved in CloudStack, which was donated to the Apache Software Foundation in April. Citrix developers are now involved in driving user adoption for CloudStack and helping to shepherd the project through the Apache Foundation’s incubation process.

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LinuxCon Keynote Q&A: Qualcomm's Rob Chandhok on Why Linux is Essential to the Company's Success

By Jennifer Cloer - July 19, 2012 - 2:10pm

This week's LinuxCon/CloudOpen keynote Q&A is with Qualcomm Innovation Center President Rob Chandhok. He will be talking about "Mobility, Proximal Data and Compute Meshes" at the event just next month in San Diego. Here he gives us a peek at what that means as well as shares some interesting perspectives on Qualcomm and the mobile opportunities for Linux.

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