OpenStack Moves From Integrated Release to Big Tent Model

The integrated release model is dead, being replaced with a new "Big Tent" model. OpenStack's new approach for releases will add a diverse array of projects. Read more »

Google Cuts Cloud Computing Prices, Intros Pre-emptible VM Model

Google pared Compute Engine prices by up to 30 percent, and its Pre-emptible VMs offer a cheaper option for short-duration batch workloads, the company said. Read more »

Microsoft Research Unveils VC3 Cloud Workload Privacy Project

The company advances cloud data privacy and security with a new technology called Verifiable Confidential Cloud Computing (VC3). Read more »

OpenStack Launches Interoperability and Federation Initiatives

The OpenStack Foundation is rolling out its first round of interoperability testing that defines a common core for all OpenStack-powered platforms. Read more »

Blue Box Cloud Brings OpenStack On-Premises

The company's new offering provides packaged engineered hardware to enable an organization to deploy and manage an OpenStack cloud, taking on VCE's vBlock. Read more »

Security, Cost Worries Slowing Cloud Adoption

Nearly 75 percent of survey respondents confirmed that when moving telecommunications to the cloud, quality of service would either stay the same or improve. Read more »

OpenStack Summit to Highlight Liberty Platform, Containers

As the OpenStack Summit is set to start May 17 in Vancouver, B.C., here's a look at the trends and issues that will dominate the five-day conference. Read more »

Evaluation of Tone-Mapping Operators for HDR Video Under Different Ambient Luminance Levels

Since high dynamic range (HDR) displays are not yet widely available, there is still a need to perform a dynamic range reduction of HDR content to reproduce it properly on standard dynamic... Read more »

Software Helps EMC Ease Out of Its Enterprise Storage Comfort Zone

EMC is still primarily an enterprise storage and IT infrastructure company, but it spent more than half the time at its recent EMC World conference talking about software. Read more »

Relativistic Effects for Time-Resolved Light Transport

We present a real-time framework which allows interactive visualization of relativistic effects for time-resolved light transport. We leverage data from two different sources: real-world data acquired with an effective exposure time of... Read more »