Author: Lauren Morley

Tired of managing separate user accounts for OpenStack? Integrate Active Directory and unlock a world of simplified user management, enhanced security, and reduced administrative overhead. This comprehensive guide provides step-by-step instructions to seamlessly connect your existing Active Directory infrastructure with OpenStack, allowing you to centralize authentication, streamline authorization, and improve the user experience.

We’re proud members of the OpenInfra Foundation, contributing technology and helping to drive innovation within the open source community. As such, our engineers recently re-provisioned the OpenInfra Foundation’s continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) cloud to our latest OpenStack Bobcat release (2023.2) with Ceph Reef storage. This robust platform powers one of the most demanding CI/CD pipelines in the open source world, automated by Zuul.

Planning your infrastructure budget is about more than business costs. It’s about aligning IT budgets with organizational goals, scaling smoothly, staying ahead of cyber threats, and leveraging the latest technology to drive growth. Whether you are thinking about cloud expansion, modernizing outdated systems, or maximizing security, the right infrastructure budget makes all the difference.

In this guide, we’ll walk through the key things to consider when planning your infrastructure budget for 2025.

Ensure uninterrupted service for your critical applications with our comprehensive guide to high-availability infrastructure solutions. Discover the importance of redundancy, failover, and fault tolerance, and explore popular technologies like OpenStack, bare metal servers, and Ceph storage clusters. Learn how to build resilient systems that can withstand failures and minimize downtime.

Explore the benefits of cloud-based development, including increased flexibility, improved security, and faster onboarding. Learn how to choose the right cloud platform and overcome potential challenges. Then read a real-world case study of a business that used OpenMetal’s hosted private cloud to enhance their remote development platform.

Companies already create vast amounts of data every day, and the growing usage of big data and AI is now skyrocketing the need for robust, scalable storage solutions. Two popular platforms are Ceph and AWS S3. Both offer capable solutions for managing and storing large amounts of data. However their architectures, capabilities, and use cases differ quite a bit. Let’s compare and contrast these two platforms to help you decide which may be the better choice for your storage needs.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) has undeniably transformed the way businesses approach their IT infrastructure, offering a blend of flexibility, cost-efficiency, and scalability that traditional setups struggle to match. The benefits of IaaS extend far beyond simple cost savings, enabling businesses to stay at the forefront of technology, enhance their security measures, and focus on innovation.

Forget the myth! Open source software, with its transparent code, fosters a global community of developers who constantly improve security. This public scrutiny leads to faster bug fixes and a proven track record of security, making open source a reliable and cost-effective option for businesses.

Shopping around for a new cloud service provider (CSP) is an oft-daunting task that most companies will have to deal with at least once. Reaching out to multiple providers, gathering information, trying to ensure that you ask all the right questions to make a good comparison and find the right fit for your organization. It can quickly become a blur of information!

This article and accompanying downloadable aim to make this process a bit more organized! We’ve laid out various questions in different categories such as cost, capabilities, and support that you’ll likely want to ask every vendor you speak with.

The cloud has become a digital oasis, promising agility, scalability, and freedom from the shackles of on-premises infrastructure. But navigating it can be daunting, especially when faced with nearly unlimited cloud combinations – two of those being the choice between managed and hosted cloud services. Both offer the convenience of remote access and flexible resources, but beneath the surface lie distinct philosophies.

In this video and accompanying article, OpenMetal Infrastructure and Platform Automations Engineer, Yuriy Shyyan, delves into the challenges and opportunities faced by growing businesses when it comes to cloud infrastructure costs and vendor dependency. We present OpenStack and Ceph as powerful tools for creating personalized cloud environments. With OpenStack and Ceph, organizations can regain control over their infrastructure, extracting more value.

On-demand private clouds have emerged as a viable solution for businesses to reap the benefits of both reduced costs and enhanced flexibility. In this blog post, we’ll explore the evolution and benefits of on-demand private clouds and alternative cloud infrastructure solutions, and how they can maximize ROI for many businesses.

As a public cloud or cloud hosting provider, you’re no stranger to the challenge of offering competitive and profitable solutions to your customers while simultaneously reducing your workload. One way to achieve this balance is by incorporating a customizable, easy-to-manage private cloud solution into your offerings without investing in extensive infrastructure resources or requiring additional maintenance work. Well say hello to OpenMetal Cloud for Hosting and Public Cloud Providers!

OpenStack is undeniably a powerful and versatile cloud platform that many industries continue to adopt at an increasing rate. Obviously, we’re big fans! But, like any intricate technology, having a firm understanding of its inner workings is crucial for deriving maximum efficiency, especially if your business provides cloud or primarily online services. So today, we’ll be diving into the world of subscription ratios in OpenStack, which play a vital role in resource allocation across your infrastructure.

Private, hybrid, and open source cloud solutions offer managed IT service providers unparalleled control, customization, and security. While public cloud providers may have had their place in the growth of the cloud industry, it’s apparent that the future lies in more secure and flexible environments.

Effective cloud cost optimization will reduce unnecessary spending on cloud services, while still ensuring that the organization has access to the resources it needs. In this article, we’ll cover cloud cost management best practices and ways you can prevent spend from ballooning.