Aptira and NubeliU partner to provide innovative OpenStack and DevOps services globally Company Updates

Aptira and NubeliU partner to provide innovative OpenStack and DevOps services globally

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA and SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, December 8, 2015 - Aptira, the leading provider of OpenStack in the Asia Pacific region, has formed a strategic…

Jessica Field11/12/2015

Meet Aptira’s new Marketing Manager: Jessica Field Company Updates

Meet Aptira’s new Marketing Manager: Jessica Field

We’re excited to welcome Jessica Field to the Aptira team! Jessica joins us following 9 years at hosting company, Anchor. With close to a decade of…

Jessica Field12/11/2015

Trough of Disillusionment I am in you! Community Updates

Trough of Disillusionment I am in you!

With the Tokyo summit wrapped up, I had a last bowl of ramen at the airport before heading home. At such times, one's mind naturally…

Aptira06/11/2015

Tokyo OpenStack Summit: Don’t miss our talks! Community Updates

Tokyo OpenStack Summit: Don’t miss our talks!

Will we be seeing you at the Tokyo OpenStack Summit this week? This not to be missed event kicks off tomorrow, and we're excited to…

Jessica Field28/10/2015

A New Front in OpenStack Networking Company Updates

A New Front in OpenStack Networking

Yesterday Aptira, Akanda and Cumulus Networks announced a partnership to deliver innovative network virtualisation and orchestration solutions on OpenStack using Astara and Cumulus networking infrastructure.…

Aptira17/10/2015

Akanda, Aptira and Cumulus Networks’ Partnership Gives OpenStack Cloud Operators Unprecedented Networking Simplification, Flexibility and Agility Company Updates

Akanda, Aptira and Cumulus Networks’ Partnership Gives OpenStack Cloud Operators Unprecedented Networking Simplification, Flexibility and Agility

Akanda, Aptira and Cumulus Networks’ Partnership Gives OpenStack Cloud Operators Unprecedented Networking Simplification, Flexibility and Agility Aptira Becomes the First OpenStack Systems Integrator to Bring…

Tristan14/10/2015

OpenStack – you can’t innovate on retreads Thoughts

OpenStack – you can’t innovate on retreads

You can predict a company’s success with OpenStack, or any Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI), through a single question. The companies that achieve positive business outcomes…

Tristan23/09/2015

Cats Eye View Company Updates

Cats Eye View

Im Gemma, Aptiras Chief Feline Officer, and Im disappointed. With Everything. My Catherapist has suggested I need to get a few things off my chest.…

Tristan31/08/2015

OpenStack Day Taiwan 2015: An Exciting Time to Witness OpenStack’s Rapid Growth in Taiwan Community Updates

OpenStack Day Taiwan 2015: An Exciting Time to Witness OpenStack’s Rapid Growth in Taiwan

The 2nd annual OpenStack Day Taiwan was held in Taipei International Convention Center‎, just a block away from Taiwan's tallest building Taipei 101, and it's…

Aptira22/08/2015

Aptira Appoints Expert Advisors to Capitalise on Global Growth Opportunity Company Updates

Aptira Appoints Expert Advisors to Capitalise on Global Growth Opportunity

  IT industry veterans, Max McLaren and Ben Kepes, join Simon Anderson on Aptira’s advisory panel SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, AUGUST 19, 2015 – Australian managed hosting,…

Tristan21/08/2015

Getting started with CoreOS on OpenStack OpenStack DocumentationTechnical Documentation

Getting started with CoreOS on OpenStack

What is CoreOS and Why? CoreOS is an open-source lightweight operating system based on the Linux kernel and is designed to provide infrastructure for clustered…

Aptira13/08/2015

OpenStack: Product or… yeah, nah Thoughts

OpenStack: Product or… yeah, nah

It's not my turn to aptirablog but as they say: "Someone is wrong on the Internet". I'm going to start with some fairly uncontroversial statements…

Aptira24/06/2015

Play time is over Thoughts

Play time is over

Everyone’s seen Randy’s talk right? Great! Did you see termie’s talk? Yay! OpenStack is doomed/needs serious work/needs a fork in it etc. This is true.…

Aptira18/06/2015

OpenStack and Diversity Thoughts

OpenStack and Diversity

The meteoric rise of the OpenStack project is a unique phenomenon in the world of OpenSource software. It has been helped by the years of…

Aptira01/06/2015

University of Melbourne RDSI Case Studies

University of Melbourne RDSI

The University of Melbourne is the premier higher education institution of Victoria with a strong track record as technology leader, being the first and primary node…

Aptira29/05/2015

Telecommunications NFV Case Studies

Telecommunications NFV

A large telecommunications company in Australia is looking to investigate NFV, Network Functions Virtualisation. Network Function Virtualisation is a hot topic in the world of…

Aptira29/05/2015

National Computational Infrastructure Case Studies

National Computational Infrastructure

National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) is Australia's national research computing service. It provides high performance computing services to researchers, predominantly focussing on the environment and earth sciences.…

Aptira29/05/2015

Mercurial Case Studies

Mercurial

Mercurial (acquired by IMS Health) is a Business Intelligence company that operates a cloud based service to deliver live decision support capability to its clients across mobile…

Aptira29/05/2015

SME Service Provider Case Studies

SME Service Provider

Our client wanted to introduce an AWS like elastic multi-tenant IaaS to its managed service customer base in order to complement its existing traditional VMWare vCloud…

Aptira29/05/2015

BunnieCloud for Andrew “Bunnie” Huang Case Studies

BunnieCloud for Andrew “Bunnie” Huang

By far one of the most rewarding projects we have ever delivered also happened to be one of the smallest. We met Bunnie at Linux Conf AU in…

Aptira29/05/2015

An alternative view of OpenStack, or how to encourage innovation by getting out of the way Thoughts

An alternative view of OpenStack, or how to encourage innovation by getting out of the way

A while ago I had a little rant about Ceilometer and dangers of overreaching. A similar discussion has popped up in the OpenStack-Operators list, during which…

Tristan10/05/2015

OpenStack BoD Individual Director Elections 2015 – Kavit Munshi Community Updates

OpenStack BoD Individual Director Elections 2015 – Kavit Munshi

My journey with the OpenStack project has been a very rewarding one. I have had the good fortune of meeting some wonderful people and being…

Tristan12/02/2015

OpenStack Election 2015 Report – Day 3 Community Updates

OpenStack Election 2015 Report – Day 3

The OpenStack Foundation has 13,490 eligible voters and our 25% quorum line to allow us to make changes to our outdated bylaws is 3,373. Today's…

Tristan13/01/2015

OpenStack Election 2015 Report – Day 1 Community Updates

OpenStack Election 2015 Report – Day 1

The OpenStack Foundation has 13,490 eligible voters and our 25% quorum line to allow us to make changes to our outdated bylaws is 3,373. We’ve…

Tristan12/01/2015

Tristan’s OpenStack BoD Individual Director Election picks for 2015 Community Updates

Tristan’s OpenStack BoD Individual Director Election picks for 2015

The OpenStack Individual Director election is on right now from the 12th to the 16th of January. This is who I’d like to see seated…

Tristan13/12/2014

Product Management lies dreaming … Thoughts

Product Management lies dreaming …

This was originally posted to the product working group mailling list, which consists of people in influencing positions within their employer's OpenStack organisations. The group…

Tristan14/11/2014

What is Ceilometer’s Minimum Viable Product? Thoughts

What is Ceilometer’s Minimum Viable Product?

I believe the basic goals of Ceilometer are laudable. It attempts to gather data about the state of an OpenStack instance, which is a useful…

Tristan11/11/2014

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) on FreeBSD with ZFS OpenStack DocumentationTechnical Documentation

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) on FreeBSD with ZFS

Welcome to part two of the series of Aptira blogs where we explore the potential of running OpenStack on FreeBSD! At the end of part one,…

Tristan25/08/2014

Creating a Windows Server 2012 QCOW2 image (OpenStack/KVM) OpenStack DocumentationTechnical Documentation

Creating a Windows Server 2012 QCOW2 image (OpenStack/KVM)

Things are busy here in Aptiraville. One thing we have been working on recently is upgrading our business intelligence platform, ADAPT. We originally ran this platform…

Tristan14/08/2014

OpenStack Identity (Keystone) on FreeBSD OpenStack DocumentationTechnical Documentation

OpenStack Identity (Keystone) on FreeBSD

Late last night I was caught with a flash of inspiration and wondered to myself how hard it would be to get OpenStack working on…

Tristan31/07/2014