Making environmental reporting possible for operators of OpenStack cloud deployments.

The Rackspace-led OpenStack cloud project had its fourth release Thursday, OpenStack Diablo, which adds a host of new features and functions to help OpenStack take on the cloud competition.

Also, I used my simple clouds to experiment with the in-development OpenStack Dashboard project, which provides a Web interface to an OpenStack cloud that resembles Amazon’s EC2 Web console.

The OpenStack Dashboard gives adiminstrators and users a control panel with plug-in support for additional applications. OpenStack Identity offers unified authentification and identity management ...

Figure 7. The OpenStack Horizon Login After a moment, you'll be taken to the main OpenStack overview dashboard. Go ahead and explore the interface, including the Compute→Instance and Network→Network ...

Red Hat's latest release underscores just how important OpenStack is to the Linux giant's future.

Its improved support of VMware infrastructure touches on virtualization, management, networking and storage functionalities. "Customers may use existing VMware vSphere resources as virtualization ...

Making environmental reporting possible for operators of OpenStack cloud deployments. Data centres are widely known to be energy-intensive and were estimated to form around 1% of global ...