Our interview with Dawid Deja
OVHcloud is a cloud provider offering Dedicated Servers, VMware based Hosted Private Cloud, and OpenStack-based Public Cloud to over 1.4 million customers worldwide. OVHcloud has been an innovator in data center design and management for nearly two decades. At the OpenInfra summit of 2022 in Berlin, we have interviewed Dawid Deja. He is the Team […]
What is the next big step for universities that use an Open Source infrastructure?
What is the next big step for universities that use an Open Source infrastructure? Since the term ‘’open source’’ was first coined in 1998, it has developed majorly. While we are now in 2022, we can tell you that most universities are able to work with an open source infrastructure. Furthermore, it is essential to […]
Interview with Stig Telfer, the CTO of StackHPC
StackHPC develops OpenStack capabilities for research computing use cases. Through extensive experience, they understand HPC and cloud. StackHPC focuses on the needs and the shortcomings of each paradigm. They work with clients to develop solutions that address the gaps in cloud for research computing use cases. In addition, StackHPC works actively with the OpenStack community […]
Webinar: How universities thrive on open source
Why a webinar? Together with the University of Luxembourg and the Tilburg University, we organized a webinar last week. You might wonder, why organize a webinar particularly with universities? Well, as you probably know open source is huge and extensive and, specific knowledge really helps getting the most out of open source quicker. Therefore, sharing […]
What about Red Hat Director?
What is it? The Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform director is a toolset that was produced by Red Hat. It is made for installing and managing a complete OpenStack environment. Red Hat Director is primarily based on the OpenStack project TripleO. TripleO is an abbreviation for “OpenStack-On-OpenStack”. This project takes advantage of OpenStack components […]
Our interview with Jonathan Race
Recently we visited the annual OpenInfra summit in Berlin. We held interviews with some interesting people. We posted a blog about our interview with Mark Collier, the COO and co-founder of the OpenInfra Foundation a few weeks ago, you can find it here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:6960602898200199168?updateEntityUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_updateV2%3A%28urn%3Ali%3AugcPost%3A6960602898200199168%2CFEED_DETAIL%2CEMPTY%2CDEFAULT%2Cfalse%29 This time we have a blog for you about our interview […]
MAAS in a nutshell
About Ubuntu MAAS An OpenStack infrastructure is built up by several components. A couple of weeks ago I described some of the components often used to setup a basic cloud infrastructure. You can find this article here. In the article I described Ironic; a solution to provision bare metal. After I placed the article, an […]
OpenInfra Summit interview with Mark Collier
Recently we joined the annual OpenInfra summit in Berlin and what a blast we had! Among the great talks there, our boat tour and dinners, we also held interviews with some really interesting people. One of those interviews was held with Mark Collier, who is the COO and co-founder of the OpenInfra Foundation. We have […]
A LOKI case study
What is LOKI? Loki is a god in Norse mythology; he is known as a troublemaker and a shapeshifter. In the Marvel franchise, he is known as a fictional character portrayed by Tom Hiddleston, though his character is based on the Norse mythological god of the same name. In the open source industry, we know […]
Kubernetes components
Two weeks ago, at the OpenInfra Summit in Berlin we had a lot of talks about Kubernetes and the components from which it is setup. Fairbanks supports teams working with Kubernetes and I thought it might be a good idea to do a short recap on all the components. Kubernetes consists of several components. At […]
