Open source software is taking over the world, driven by – and at the same time driving – the innovations of cloud technology. Open infrastructures have become the biggest cloud solutions that companies use for their private cloud, as well as a solid base under most of the public clouds. …

One of the projects Fairbanks is working on at this moment, is implementing Open Source Management and Orchestration (MANO) to the OpenStack platform of one of our customers. Although this customer is a service provider, we see a lot of attention from the (tele)communication service provider (CSP) market building up …

Since its first inception in 2010, OpenStack has released major updates for their infrastructure every 6 months. Rather than going by version number, they use the alphabet to identify these releases. It started with Austin as the first release and now we have arrived at Ussuri, the 21st release of …

More than ever before, businesses are increasingly using cloud platforms to speed up innovation, reduce costs, enhance reliability, to avoid risking data loss and increase flexibility. Among the various types of cloud models you can choose, there’s one that ensures optimal cost-efficiency, performance, and flexibility: the hybrid cloud. It has …

Today’s DevOps teams develop and run their applications in containers. And for obvious reasons; containers are fast, easy to roll out and very scalable. The use of containers has been growing enormously these last couple of years. Containers have been around though for quite some time. In fact, it was …

There seems to be a shift going on at the moment. More accurately, there are multiple shifts happening. On the one hand we see organizations switch between public and private cloud solutions to get the optimal solution for their use case. And on the other we see cloud solution providers …