Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

Open-source cloud software maker Eucalyptus Systems has raised $30 million in its third round of funding, cash that will help the company serve quickly growing demand for private and hybrid clouds.

Microsoft kicked off the Open Compute Project (OCP) conference today by offering up open source software to run cloud switches. The Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) was submitted for ...

The cloud is opening up as more open-source alternatives to proprietary players emerge. While open source itself is nothing new -- and doesn't need grand promotion -- open source in the cloud is ...

Secure software supply chain solution provider Chainguard Inc. revealed today that it has raised $280 million in new funding ...

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog recently sat down with Ram Iyengar, chief evangelist at the Cloud Foundry ...

With competition heating up in open source clouds, an analysis of community participation among four major projects shows that Eucalyptus — the oldest of those studied — has the largest standing ...

Two months after releasing version 2 of the enterprise edition of its open-source cloud software, Eucalyptus Systems has posted a new version of the software's base platform, the company announced on ...

Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software face a perennial struggle between keeping their community ...

One of open source’s promises is to minimize vendor lock-in. However, it’s not so apparent that this value proposition holds when using software as a service (SaaS) or cloud-based platform services.