Category: OpenStack

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,… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

The past several years have seen fast growth in enterprise hybrid cloud adoption as more and more businesses seek a hypothetical sweet spot between purist extremes of 100% private cloud… Read More

For all those in magical Sydney for the OpenStack Summit, check out these talks from Platform9: Building a distributed benchmarking service for Openstack What: We containerized an OpenStack service, Rally,… Read More

What is Benchmarking? Benchmarking is the process of measuring performance of a software system. Benchmarking provides capacity analysis and helps determine the best tool for a specific use case. OpenStack… Read More

Cloud users often face network connectivity issues by failing to handle complicated network configuration details for OpenStack. This increases workload for support staff: they cannot help these users identify configuration… Read More

Platform9 has proposed a number of presentations for OpenStack Summit. Please cast your votes on those you want to hear at Sydney or on YouTube! Each of these presentations can… Read More