Superuser, an Online Publication Covering Open Infrastructure

November 12, 2015

OpenStack and Network Function Virtualization, the backstory

Jonathan Bryce, OpenStack executive director, gave a keynote at the OPNFV Summit where he talked about the two communities.

Nicole Martinelli
November 11, 2015

OPNFV creates more features, documentation with second release, Brahmaputra

Chris Price, OPNFV technical steering committee chair, gives a sneak preview of Brahmaputra, the second release targeting February 2016, which open doors to different projects doing multi site data centers, different fault management, upgradeability and more documentation on how to work with the platform.

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November 11, 2015

Fighting cloud vendor lock-in, manga style

To celebrate the OpenStack community and Liberty release, the Cloudbase Solutions team created a one-of-a-kind printed comic packed with OpenStack puns and references to manga and kaiju literature.

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November 11, 2015

Sitting down with NTT Group, the Superuser Awards winner at the OpenStack Summit Tokyo

Shintaro Mizuno and Toshikazu Ichikawa, senior research manager supervisor and senior research manager at NTT Software Innovation Center discuss NTT Group’s three production deployments and how their team extensively contributes back to the OpenStack community.

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November 10, 2015

Kilowatts for Humanity harnesses the wind and sun to electrify rural communities

OpenStack-powered DreamCompute cloud computing helps keep rural microgrids up and running

Kyle Peterson
November 10, 2015

Local users steal the spotlight at OpenStack Day Benelux

With 29 percent growth in 2015, the Amsterdam-based conference is gaining traction, attracting four local OpenStack users to share their use cases.

Ben van der Vegt
November 6, 2015

An OpenStack operator’s guidebook: burning issues, tips ‘n tricks and how you can get involved

Jesse Keating, a release lead for the OpenStack product at Blue Box, an IBM Company, discusses Liberty learnings from the Mitaka Summit ops sessions and how operators can provide the their point of view to the developer community.

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November 6, 2015

Bridging the OpenStack deployment fidelity gap

Rob Hirschfeld, OpenStack Foundation board member and CEO, co-founder of RackN, discusses the mission and challenges of deployment fidelity, which aims to prevent expensive reworking, miscommunication and increase the overall efficiency of the OpenStack deployment process.

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November 6, 2015

OpenStack user survey findings emphasize project maturity

Heidi Joy Tretheway, senior marketing manager at the OpenStack Foundation, shares how the results of the latest user survey will be used in the community and significant highlights, including how the number of production deployments doubled in the latest report.

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November 5, 2015

Tackling diversity in the OpenStack community

Egle Sigler, principal architect at Rackspace and co-chair of the diversity working group, discusses the mission of the group as well as the outcome of the recent survey and what’s next.

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