Building an Open Infrastructure Unified Telecom Cloud; what it means for you.
Telecom companies face quite a few challenges these days especially regaining market share in relation from public cloud providers. They are adopting fast to become tech-centric and front running companies: think of the technical migration from 4G to 5G and moving cloud computing to their customer at the ‘edge’ of the telco networks. This […]
10 steps for successful software delivery
Last week I spoke to David Worsell, VP Europe of Tarmac (www.tarmac.io). A company that designs, builds, scales and supports software. They are located in several countries from where they offer their services. I found this conversation interesting because our services are complementary. Fairbanks builds and supports open cloud infrastructures, whereas Tarmac offers the design […]
SDN, NFV and VNF. Powerful acronyms maybe, but let me explain them a bit.
Last week I was explaining some open infrastructure components to a client and therefore also some network concepts like SDN, NFV and VNF functionalities. At some point I realized I was talking too much abbreviations; IPv6, BGP, OKD, RHEL, RHEV, ZFS, MANO, SDN, NFV and VNF. Pfff, let’s dive into the meaning first before scattering […]
Why OpenStack is generally used for NFV
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is an initiative of open source cloud infrastructure communities to speed up the innovation in carrier grade network solutions such as session border control, load balancers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and WAN accelerators. . We see our customers apply these software defined networking solution often on an OpenStack platform. Why do […]
ZFS and Ceph, what a lovely couple they make!
Stable, secure data storage is probably one of the most important things in today’s data driven world. With the ability to scale fast. Combining two great storage solutions provides you with all those in one. ZFS and Ceph are a couple that cannot easily be beaten! Why is that? The short explanation is scalability. […]
Virtual Open Infrastructure Summit
Join us October 19-23, 2020 As you all know, OpenStack is one of the largest open source projects in the world. The community has over 100.000 active contributors from 180 countries. And although there are many ways to communicate with each other, under normal circumstances there is no better way than to meet face to […]
Software support versus infrastructure support
With all open infrastructure components; whether it’s Ceph, OKD, Cumulus, Kubernetes, or OpenStack, I often get questions about the difference between software support and infrastructure support. ‘In what way and at what level am I able to support my open source infrastructure?’ ‘Can I support my open source infrastructure with software support only, or do […]
OpenStack is alive and in motion
Not so long ago, someone said he felt OpenStack had lost its relevance. Although I hear this from time to time, it always takes me by surprise. Because OpenStack is more alive than ever, moving forward with the forthcoming 20th release of OpenStack: Train. But how can you tell OpenStack is more alive than ever?! […]
Cloud and OpenStack retrospective
Cloud and OpenStack? In a recent conversation, someone asked us why Fairbanks, choose to focus your attention to open infrastructure cloud solutions and OpenStack when you started? And why do we blog about so many aspects of open infrastructure clouds and what can be achieved with it? Since we are doing this since 2011 and […]
