Modern datacenters are so different from legacy ones, and with good reason. Traditionally, companies supported a handful of critical applications, and the network was put in place primarily to support just those applications. Once installed, the network was left mostly untouched in many organizations. It consisted of dedicated hardware-based routers …

One thing we want to prevent in your private cloud at all times, is downtime of your cloud workloads. That is why we have architectural safeguards built in, such as redundancy and cloud aware or cloud native application development; this way if one component in the infrastructure fails, others part …

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 …