During my time here at Ning I have had the opportunity to work on many different projects open and closed source. The one thing that has been a continuous trend is our ability to provide stable and useful open source code. Complimented by the likes of Thomas Dudziak, Brian McCallister, and Gerir Ning has proven to be able to remain on the cutting edge of technology without losing customer focus. Once again Ning is continuing this trend by releasing Theia as our most recent Open Source project. Theia provides a free alternative for monitoring NetApp utilization including CPU load, Disk usage, iops,...

The second OpenStack summit is under way. So far the discussions appear to be very detailed, and have lots of contributors. There was quite a bit of debate around IPv6; As of this writing the Austin release of nova does not currently provide IPv6 support, however the Bexar release should contain “dual stack” which will allow it to support both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. This is a major step moving forward because of the well known IPv4 shortage. The faster we can implement a solid IPv6 solution within OpenStack the better. All in all the summit is going well, and it seems we are going to be...

So here is an example python script that you can use to build new CloudServers and then deploy software on them. This particular example is pretty basic and only installs either a LAMP stack or just a simple installation of MySQL. Don’t let the limitations of this particular script fool you into thinking that is all libcloud or python can do because that is not the case. You can do something pretty basic like this one, extend the script to utilize threading which will allow you to deploy multiple instances at a time, or simply have more complex software installations. Before you run the script...