OpenStack
A project originally started by NASA and Rackspace for delivering a cloud computing and storage platform. Today, OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and technologists producing an open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds.
The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects delivering various components for a cloud infrastructure solution. OpenStack software delivers a massively scalable cloud operating system consisting of three major components:
Compute: open source software designed to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform.
Object Storage: open source software for creating redundant, scalable object storage using clusters of standardized servers to store petabytes of accessible data (code-named “Swift”).
Image Service: provides discovery, registration, and delivery services for virtual disk images (code-named “Glance”).
During the course of the past year, OpenStack has attracted more than 90 member organizations, including Dell, Citrix, Cisco and HP.
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