Projects like OpenStack would not exist if not for his contributions to the sector.
Sadly, though, it also reduces the number of commercial distributions of OpenStack by one.
The real power of OpenStack is its open standards across compute, storage and networking resources.
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The HP Cloud is based on OpenStack and is a direct competitor to Amazon Web Services.
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To date, OpenStack has 130 participating companies to develop to open standards for cloud software and services.
To say OpenStack has been getting a lot of attention lately would be putting it mildly.
Rackspace, in turn, offers services to its clients to assist in the integration and management of OpenStack software.
Crenshaw predicts that CloudForms will eventually support OpenStack as one of the cloud vendors its customers can select.
It will take a lot more than just OpenStack to help typical enterprises into the next generation of computing.
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According to a recent analysis for OpenStack and OpenNebula, around 30% of their monthly participants are new members.
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Dholakia says OpenStack-built solutions have difficulty scaling in real production clouds, despite the level of interest and commitment from its partners.
In reality, OpenStack is dominated by vendor interests, where they want customers to adopt their own offerings, potentially to include proprietary lock-in.
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This is what I envisioned as I spoke with Chris Kemp, founder and CEO of Nebula and co-founder of OpenStack.
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And Nebula simplifies the usability of OpenStack for the private cloud.
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Citrix might also be feeling the burn of a snub from OpenStack.
Rackspace has taken on several initiatives to stay ahead of the trend on its Cloud offerings, significantly founding the open source organization OpenStack.
Cloud.com has successfully penetrated the service provider market with its OpenStack-based solution and racked up some solid wins in the enterprise to boot.
Using open source virtualization technologies like KVM and Xen, ULAP is managed with the EUCALYPTUS and OpenStack cloud management platforms.
Research posted last year by Lydia Leong, Research VP at Gartner, points to some of the challenges facing Cloud providers, specifically within the OpenStack community.
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An OpenStack environment would operate like the Amazon EC2 public cloud.
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Engates also said that Amazon has not made it clear how their APIs will be managed and evolved, while OpenStack has a clearly defined community process.
As someone who has actually built these systems several times now I can assure you that Google uses a lot more than the software equivalent of OpenStack.
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The OpenStack Foundation and the Open Compute Project is a community of 150 companies committed to building cloud architecture based upon open source software and open hardware standards.
The OpenStack project launched a little over a year ago and quickly forced most companies in the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) area to move to open source models.
Rackspace and HP, two of the largest providers using OpenStack, have been found to not actually be compatible with the OpenStack project, an irony not lost on many industry observers.
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The timing of the report coincides with recent discussions in the OpenStack project about the lack of interoperability and compatibility between the various deployments of the open source platform.
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Rackspace and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) initiated OpenStack, an IaaS cloud computing offering that now counts more than 120 member companies, including Dell, HP and Cisco.
Citrix, one of the primary cloud vendors, has discontinued contributing software projects to OpenStack, the open-source software foundation for cloud development, of which it had been one of the founding partners.
He points out that dozens of companies are supporting OpenStack such as Dell and HP, and that Rackspace will move its public cloud, second only in size to Amazon, to OpenStack later this year.
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