Category: OpenStack

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

This post was authored by Chris Brown, Solutions Marketing at Nutanix OpenStack is a powerful tool for managing private clouds, but that power has historically come with a price: complexity…. Read More

In any enterprise-grade cloud offering, Virtual Machine High Availability (HA) is a must have feature. Until now, HA features were available only on virtual infrastructures like VMware, Hyper-V, etc. With… Read More