Rackspace Brings the OpenStack Cloud to Bare Metal
June 23, 2014
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Sean Michael Kerner.
An open-source OpenStack effort, known as Ironic, is a key enabler for Rackspace’s new OnMetal offering, which also supports the Docker container model. Rackspace aims to shake up the cloud market with the launch of its new OnMetal OpenStack cloud service that enables users to directly provision physical hardware.
The promise of the cloud is highly available, elastic computing power that is available on-demand. For the most part, that promise has been enabled through the use of virtualization and multi-tenancy, where many different users share the same physical hardware…
The key cloud challenge and security risk that has concerned some people is the fact that the physical infrastructure is shared. The shared physical infrastructure also does not provide power users with the control they might want over the hardware…
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