OpenStack Juno debuts, more moving and shaking by cloud providers

By Barb Darrow

Summary:
The week in cloud: OpenStack M&A continues — stay tuned for more action. And Max Schireson on MongoDB momentum (and why he stepped down as CEO.)

photo: Shutterstock user Tyler Olson

New OpenStack versions come out every six months  — the latest “Juno” release debuted this week. But OpenStack deals have been rolling out considerably faster — the most recent being EMC’s acquisition of Cloudscaling. That news comes less than a month after Cisco bought Metacloud. And that came a week after Hewlett-Packard, an OpenStack partisan, snarfed up Eucalyptus, a cloud player that recently got OpenStack religion.

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