OpenStack-powered cloud startup Cloudscaling scores $10M from Trinity, Juniper, & Seagate

Elastic cloud infrastructure startup Cloudscaling has raised $10 million in its second round of funding so it can keep growing at a quick clip and innovating its cloud technology.

VMware’s new partnership with Canonical is a thumbs-up for OpenStack

Canonical and VMware announced today a partnership that will enable customers to run efficient OpenStack clouds using the two sets of technologies.

Piston Cloud nabs $8M to bolster open source cloud adoption

Today, Openstack private cloud player, Piston Cloud closed an $8 million funding round. Investors see potential in the space, despite that it has become increasingly flooded with competitors, such as Hewlett-Packard and Rackspace.

Nebula CEO & former NASA CTO Chris Kemp: ‘Next year is the year of OpenStack’

Chris Kemp has an impressive resume: a co-founder of OpenStack, former NASA CTO, and CEO of next-gen private cloud startup Nebula. Today he predicted next year would be the year of OpenStack.

How France’s SFR used a ‘chocolate factory’ to launch a European cloud

France's second largest carrier, SFR, came to VentureBeat's CloudBeat last year, and went away with a clear strategy on how to launch an Amazon.com competitor in France. SFR's Benjamin Revcolevschi explains here how his team arrived back in France, and executed the strategy through an extraordinary change in corporate culture, i.e., by building a "Chocolate Factory" within a $12 billion revenue behemoth....

Rackspace launches OpenStack-powered next-gen public cloud

Rackspace, the top cloud infrastructure provider after Amazon, has significantly upgraded its core offerings with a new next-generation public cloud powered by OpenStack, the company said Monday.

For quite some time, Amazon has outpaced Rackspace as the top dog for …

5 cloud trends you won’t want to miss in 2012

Industry analysts like to refer to 2011 as “the year the cloud arrived.” But now that it’s here, what are we going to do with it?

We’ve got a few ideas.

Vendors are tripping over themselves to bolster their product …

NASA & Rackspace’s OpenStack cloud platform is “battle-tested and ready to go”

OpenStack, the open source cloud platform backed by Rackspace and NASA, is “battle-tested and ready to go,” Lew Moorman, chief strategy officer and president of cloud for Rackspace, said today at the CloudBeat conference in Redwood Shores, Calif.

(We’re live-streaming …

Nebula aims to enable every company to implement cloud computing

Cloud-infrastructure startup Nebula envisions a day when every company will be able to implement cloud computing as easily as plugging into a an electrical utility.

By taking advantage of open source technologies, the company hopes to create hardware appliances with …