Making environmental reporting possible for operators of OpenStack cloud deployments.

OpenStack has released Essex, the fifth version of its open source cloud OS that comes loaded with 150 new features, such as a full centralized management dashboard, an identity management system ...

The Rackspace-led OpenStack cloud project had its fourth release Thursday, OpenStack Diablo, which adds a host of new features and functions to help OpenStack take on the cloud competition.

Also, I used my simple clouds to experiment with the in-development OpenStack Dashboard project, which provides a Web interface to an OpenStack cloud that resembles Amazon’s EC2 Web console.

The new dashboard-based graphical interface is available as a separate download, though it can be easily plugged into the core OpenStack set of software, Bryce said.

Figure 7. The OpenStack Horizon Login After a moment, you'll be taken to the main OpenStack overview dashboard. Go ahead and explore the interface, including the Compute→Instance and Network→Network ...

Red Hat's latest release underscores just how important OpenStack is to the Linux giant's future.

Making environmental reporting possible for operators of OpenStack cloud deployments. Data centres are widely known to be energy-intensive and were estimated to form around 1% of global ...