pete_chadwick, Author at SUSE Communities

February 23, 2017 7:00 am

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Go ahead OpenStack, make my bay

You might be wondering why I’m paraphrasing Dirty Harry when talking about OpenStack. As I discussed in a previous blog, SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 includes support for Magnum, a new service that provides Kubernetes as a Service. The revolver that Dirty Harry used was a ... .44 Magnum. And when OpenStack Magnum configures a set […]

Categories: Technical Solutions

By: pete_chadwick

October 26, 2016 12:10 am

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SUSE gives a fig about Newton

The 14th version of OpenStack - code named Newton is the upstream release on which SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 is based. In an earlier post I explored the relation between Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion and Openstack, but didn't really talk about the good things that are in this release. While there are enhancements […]

Categories: Technical Solutions

By: pete_chadwick

October 6, 2016 3:05 pm

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OpenStack and Newton's Laws of Motion

The latest OpenStack, code named Newton has just been released. If you remember your Physics 101 - classical mechanics is based on Isaac Newton's three laws of motion. The first law deals with inertia - objects will remain at rest or move at constant velocity unless acted upon by an outside force. The second law […]

Categories: Technical Solutions

By: pete_chadwick

October 16, 2014 1:53 pm

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Juno what just happened to OpenStack?

Today marks the next milestone in the evolution of OpenStack - the 10th project release - Juno. Juno provides enhancements to all of the OpenStack sub-projects and introduces an new capability to integrate Hadoop clusters to deliver big data analytics as a service. An overview of the enhancements can be found here: (http://www.openstack.org/software/juno/). […]

Categories: Technical Solutions

By: pete_chadwick

May 16, 2014 12:29 pm

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OpenStack Summit Days 4&5 – The Suits Have Left the Building

The OpenStack Summit consists of two somewhat separate parts - the original OpenStack Summits were all about getting developers together to share ideas and plan the next release. In Atlanta this week, that means the Juno release planned for October. With the increasing interest in the project (estimates are over 4500 attendees in Atlanta) the […]

Categories: Cloud Computing, Events

By: pete_chadwick

February 3, 2014 11:21 am

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What is an OpenStack distribution and why should customers care?

The world of open source software consists of tens of thousands of projects that have been created because “someone had an itch and decided to scratch it” and others decided to join in to help move the vision forward. This is the true value of open source – it enables disparate teams of developers […]

Tags: Cloud, distro, Linux, OpenStack, SLES, SUSE

Categories: Cloud Computing, Expert Views

By: pete_chadwick

October 26, 2012 9:45 pm

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OpenStack Summit Recap – Rolling Through San Diego

Several of us at SUSE spent last week in San Diego at the OpenStack Summit, which combined design discussions to drive the next release as well as a user conference. In addition to engineering participation in the design sessions, we did the standard trade show routine – networking, presenting and listening (maybe even some dancing) […]

Tags: OpenStack

Categories: Cloud Computing, Expert Views

By: pete_chadwick

October 4, 2012 11:27 pm

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OpenStack gets an “A” for its “F” release

On September 28th, the OpenStack Foundation announced general availability of Folsom, the next stable release of the leading open source solution for building infrastructure-as-a-service clouds. This is the sixth release from the project (Yes, “F” as in Folsom, is the sixth letter in the alphabet). While there are significant enhancements to all of the […]

Tags: OpenStack

Categories: Expert Views

By: pete_chadwick

January 24, 2012 10:52 pm

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Popularity of Amazon EC2 running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Results in Extended Partnership

I’m pleased to announce that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now providing support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as part of its Premium Support offering. AWS customers using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) can experience seamless support through experts at Amazon backed by SUSE. This is great news […]

Tags: Amazon EC2

Categories: Alliance Partners, Expert Views, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server