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From: Gordon Darling on 19 Jul 2010 12:16 http://openstack.org/blog/ "Today, OpenStack consists of two projects. The first is a fully distributed object store based on Rackspace's Cloud Files offering called "OpenStack Object Storage". The code is available today at OpenStack.org. The second piece is a scalable compute-provisioning engine based on the NASA Nebula cloud technology and Rackspace Cloud Servers offering called "OpenStack Compute." Developers can download components of OS Compute beginning today at OpenStack.org. The first release is expected to be available later this year. So starting today, anyone can build their own cloud using the same technology that underlies two of the largest and best ones out there. But it's not just code from Rackspace and NASA. Last week, more than 100 architects and developers from over 25 companies came to Austin to begin defining the roadmap for OpenStack... and more importantly to begin jamming away at the code! The list included developers from managed hosters, hardware and component manufacturers, enterprise software and service companies, other open source projects, and cloud tools vendors. These community founders are already driving our project forward, and we are actively seeking more contributors to do the same!" Regards Gordon -- ox·y·mo·ron n. pl. ox·y·mo·ra or ox·y·mo·rons A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in Microsoft Security, Microsoft Help and Microsoft Works.
From: Craig on 19 Jul 2010 12:52
On 07/19/2010 09:16 AM, Gordon Darling wrote: > http://openstack.org/blog/ Thanks for this, Gordon. This sounded similar to the Eucalyptus project and, sure enough, it's designed as an alternative. But w/o the EC2 APIs. Apparently NASA was having problems scaling Eucalyptus. More here: > OpenStack has subprojects that aim to match Amazon's EC2 and S3 service offerings (but not their APIs). <http://tobym.posterous.com/openstack-open-source-cloud-computing> -- -Craig |