OpenStack OpenStack Compute is an open source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) initiative for creating and managing large groups of virtual private servers in a cloud computing environment. The goal of OpenStack is to support interoperability and allow businesses to migrate services from one cloud provider to another.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is working with Rackspace, a managed hosting and cloud computing service provider, to develop OpenStack. RackSpace is donating the code that powers its storage and content delivery service (Cloud Files) and production servers (Cloud Servers). NASA is contributing the technology that powers Nebula, a high performance computing, networking and data storage cloud service that allows researchers to work with large scientific data sets. OpenStack's first component, OpenStack Object Storage, is based on Rackspace's Cloud Files and is available now. The second component, the hosting environment based on Rackspace's Cloud Servers and NASA's Nebula cloud platform, will be released later this year. The code for OpenStack will be freely available under the Apache 2.0 license. To date, twenty-five companies have signed on to support OpenStack, including Intel, Dell and Citrix. OpenStack will be maintained by a not-for-profit organization. Learn more about OpenStack: The OpenStack project combines Rackspace's cloud storage technology with NASA's virtual server deployment and orchestration engine to make a single distribution that can be deployed anywhere from a single computer to an environment with hundreds of thousands of CPUs. OpenStack.org provides more information and access to OpenStack code.
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