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The nice thing about a conference like GigaOM Structure is that everybody who’s anybody in the cloud shows up. Representatives from just about every major vendor were there to talk about their vision ...

Citrix has abandoned its Olympus OpenStack distribution and will focus instead on its open-source CloudStack operating system, which it has contributed as a project under the Apache Software ...

OpenStack — co-founded by Rackspace and NASA in 2010 — certainly has the buzz, what with partnerships with AT&T, HP and IBM, to name a few, all of which have promised to use OpenStack as the base for ...

In the less than two months since Citrix gave its CloudStack software an Apache license, cloud providers are beginning to support the open source model. This week for example Zenoss, which makes ...

The open-source cloud conflict got started in earnest last week when Citrix, formerly an OpenStack cloud supporter, announced that it was reviving its own CloudStack cloud under the Apache Foundation.

This past week Cloud.com released the latest version of its open source Cloud OS, CloudStack. “CloudStack provides a turnkey cloud infrastructure software stack for delivering virtual datacenters as a ...

There is some really bad blood between executives at Rackspace and Citrix and the result is two fragmented open source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) compute platform efforts. Perhaps it's not ...

Citrix has parted ways with OpenStack -- the increasingly popular open source project for building Amazon-like "infrastructure clouds" -- moving its CloudStack platform to the Apache Software ...

Yes, you can build your own version of Amazon's massively popular cloud services. You just have decide which software platforms to start with. On Wednesday, in an effort catch your attention, two ...

Rivalry between the two open source options distracts us from the true point of cloud computing: It's the services, stupid It looks like OpenStack won’t be the only open source cloud computing player.