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Ryan Orban

Ryan Orban

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Openstack

Bookmarks

  1. In a Nutshell: How OpenStack Works

    Victoria Martínez de la Cruz's plain-English explainer of how OpenStack works — breaking down Horizon, Nova, Quantum, Cinder, Glance, Swift, and Keystone into digestible roles. The definitive 2013 quick-reference for the OpenStack component architecture.

  2. Cloud Prizefight: VMware vs. OpenStack

    Mirantis's analysis comparing VMware and OpenStack for enterprise private cloud — clearly biased toward OpenStack (Mirantis was an OpenStack services company), but provides a useful breakdown of the real trade-offs between proprietary and open-source virtualization stacks.

  3. Rackspace Accelerates OpenStack Enterprise Push

    Rackspace's push to accelerate OpenStack enterprise adoption by publishing a reference architecture for private clouds — bookmarked from a tweet about Rackspace's OpenStack strategy in early 2013.

  4. Hortonworks Joins OpenStack Foundation

    Hortonworks joining the OpenStack Foundation in early 2013 — a sign that the big data and cloud infrastructure worlds were converging. The tweet called 'virtualized Hadoop' the future, which captures exactly the direction that HDP-on-OpenStack was heading.

  5. Cloud Platform Comparison: CloudStack, Eucalyptus, vCloud Director and OpenStack

    Network World's 2012 comparison of the four major open-source and commercial cloud platforms — CloudStack, Eucalyptus, vCloud Director, and OpenStack — when enterprises were trying to pick a private cloud standard. The comparison that shows how unsettled the market was before AWS dominance became obvious.

  6. How to Compare VMware and OpenStack

    Mirantis SlideShare deck on how to compare VMware and OpenStack for enterprise private cloud decisions — a companion to their widely-read blog post. Useful for the specific evaluation criteria and TCO framing they used to make the OpenStack case.

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