OpenStack Summit: Our experience with OpenStack IP Address Management (IPAM) APIs

We’ve been working with the Romana Project, an OpenStack-integrated software defined networking (SDN) solution to get their top notch IPAM solution to integrate with Neutron’s IPAM APIs. The journey was challenging, but the end result was worth the effort and provides a cloud-native SDN solution that integrates not only with …

What you Must know about Compute Services Needed for an Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud

The Compute Service is one of the three key resources in any cloud. Exactly how to approach compute has been rapidly evolving in recent years. The Virtual Machine is no longer “The” answer. Bare metal is increasingly important, especially in compute-intensive environments used for Big Data analytics. In the world …

Five Minutes of Cloud

Video: The Computer in Cloud Computing: An Introduction

  “Compute” is on of the three core resource pools leveraged by cloud systems. In this episode, Robert Starmer introduces how computers fit into (and drive) the Cloud. Get a clear, concise introduction to how ‘traditional’ hypervisor-based virtualization differs from the ‘new’ container technology that has cloud technologists all abuzz. …