Announcing Project Picasso – OpenStack Functions as a Service

We are pleased to announce a new project to enable Functions as a Service (FaaS) on OpenStack — Picasso. The mission is to provide an API for running FaaS on OpenStack, abstracting away the infrastructure layer while enabling simplicity, efficiency, and scalability for both developers and operators. Picasso can be used to trigger functions from OpenStack services,…

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Delivering on the Promise of Multicloud Lambda-like Functionality

In February, we launch a beta called Project Kratos. It promised to bring Lambda-like functionality to any cloud – public, private, hybrid or on-premises. As we quickly approach Q4, February seems like a long time ago, but so much has happened since then. Over the past seven months, serverless computing has gained momentum as more…

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Intel: Accelerating Enterprise Innovation with Iron.io

Intel launched the OpenStack Innovation Center to build new pools of developers who write applications that run on enterprise clouds, and who understand that as they write the code for these clouds, it’s based on best practices of operational experience.       Intel is also working with Mirantis, Rackspace and CoreOS to make OpenStack…

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Iron.io Joins OpenStack to Drive Open Cloud Message Queues

Iron.io is now an OpenStack supporter. This may not appear all that unusual – given the top companies originally behind the initiative plus the growing numbers joining – but it is noteworthy for a cloud services company.  With most cloud services, it shouldn’t really matter what the underlying IT stack or even what cloud you’re…

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