In this blog post, we will cover the following OpenStack vs VMware topics: Why now is the time to look for VMware alternatives? Common alternatives to VMware: A quick comparison of Proxmox, Nutanix, and Hyper-V Reasons why OpenStack faced challenges in initial enterprise adoption OpenStack has become a mature and enterprise-ready VMware alternative solution today […]
· May 20, 2024 · 8 min read
OpenStack has always been viewed as an open-source innovation in the cloud computing world, offering a comprehensive suite of features for scalable cloud infrastructure and proven capabilities to replace VMware in the data center. However, OpenStack’s extensive functionality comes at the expense of complexity, with complex components such as Nova, Cinder, Neutron, and others making
· March 15, 2024 · 3 min read
Cloud computing is undergoing a transformative phase. In this blog, we examine resurgence of OpenStack in the face of severe market disruptions, particularly the massive price hikes imposed by Broadcom VMware, which have left small to mid-sized VMware customers in the dust. Rising costs of public cloud services are also driving a shift toward more
· March 11, 2024 · 3 min read
For the past several years, businesses have been inundated with buzzword-laden rhetoric urging them to embrace “digital transformation,” adopt “agile,” “cloud-native” infrastructures and so on. It’s one thing to talk about the value of these sorts of changes in theory. It’s another to build a digital strategy that puts them into practice – especially given
· August 27, 2020 · 5 min read
OpenStack Ironic allows users to manage bare metal infrastructure like they would virtual machines- essentially enabling bare metal as a service. The OpenStack Foundation recently announced that Ironic is powering millions of cores of compute all over the world, turning bare metal into automated infrastructure ready for today’s mix of virtualized and containerized workloads. Platform9
· May 3, 2019 · 4 min read
Running resource-intensive workloads with high-volume traffic can be very expensive, especially while using managed services like RDS. Public Clouds abstract management of networking and high availability from end-users but incompatible and expensive resource types drive the need for some organizations to migrate off of the public clouds. On the other hand, privately managed IT environments
· July 25, 2018 · 2 min read
This week, I had the opportunity to attend the OpenStack Summit, hosted in the beautiful city of Vancouver, Canada. IT was an exhilarating 4-days packed with all things OpenStack: Our own Cody Hill delivered two talks (!) at the conference, and my colleagues and I enjoyed the sessions at the summit, and the opportunity to
· May 24, 2018 · 4 min read
OpenStack has become the chosen platform for managing enterprise data centers due to its ability to deliver an infrastructure-as-a-service environment and to run scalable, high availability (HA) applications on top of it for private cloud (on premise) deployments. In computing terms, availability refers to the time a particular service is functionally available in a given
· March 26, 2018 · 3 min read
OpenStack Ironic is an OpenStack project that provisions bare metal machines rather than virtual machines. Bare Metal as a Service (BMaaS) allows you to provision your Hadoop or SQL workloads, or even a hypervisor, on to bare metal infrastructures and treat them like cloud instances. Bare metal provisioning isn’t something new; it’s been in use
· March 20, 2018 · 3 min read
OpenStack Designate ― an open source project under the OpenStack umbrella ― provides DNS as a Service (DNSaaS) in OpenStack. It provides a standard, open API that can be used to program DNS. Designate is protected by and integrates with Keystone authentication authorization mechanisms, just like all OpenStack APIs. The API can be powered by
· March 14, 2018 · 3 min read
OpenStack load balancer supports both native and third-party methods of load balancing, and each has its advantages and disadvantages. What is load balancing? It is a technique used by service providers and IT departments to provide a mission critical service that is always available and scales per the user requests. There are several load balancing techniques
· March 12, 2018 · 4 min read
According to the 2017 State of the Cloud report, hybrid cloud usage has increased to 71%, up 13% from the previous year. As hybrid clouds become more of a common occurrence, they introduce complexities to cloud infrastructure management and can result in vendor lock-in, if not done right, and added costs. In a previous blog
· January 30, 2018 · 5 min read