The discussion and debate over open source cloud software's compatibility with cloud leader Amazon's proprietary APIs was just beginning when the 451 Group released "The OpenStack Tipping Point" in ...

OpenStack APIs need to manipulate resources across OpenStack and the public cloud, allowing it to function as a single control point for services within and without of an organization.

Exposing the native OpenStack API means that AgileCLOUD gets itself included in the OpenStack foundations new public cloud marketplace, a location which is intended to help OpenStack users ...

Starting May 1, Rackspace customers will be offered default access to Rackspace servers through the OpenStack API, or through a new console that uses the Rackspace API, the company said Monday.

One point of differentiation those two projects seem to make is around interoperability with Amazon Web Services APIs. Do you think there should be more focus on integrating OpenStack with Amazon?

Instead, it supported AWS’ EC2 APIs. It was only when Rackspace added its own APIs that OpenStack adopted these as “native”, moving away from Amazon.

Oracle is now a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation, a show of support that has been welcomed by many across the technology industry. Oracle’s backing will hasten the development of ...

Cloudscaling has opened up the Google Compute Engine (GCE) APIs to OpenStack, allowing customers that use the open, federated cloud to access Google's vast cloud infrastructure. Cloudscaling, a ...

HP is supporting core OpenStack APIs and we have not added our own proprietary API extensions, therefore this ensures our interoperability with other OpenStack deployments.” ...

Nicira is a core networking technology in OpenStack. DreamCompute also provides API compatibility with the OpenStack APIs, including Nova Compute, Quantum Networking, and Cinder for block storage.

VMware notes that OpenStack’s vendor-neutral APIs can be used with VMware infrastructure, while also allowing its monitoring and management tools (such as vRealize Operations Manager) to ...