AURO Cloud Computing supports OpenStack’s distributed identity feature

June 1, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from FinancialNews. Author: Gulli Arnason.

Canadian cloud computing provider AURO said it has announced the support of two key OpenStack initiatives that extend the capabilities of its Canadian public cloud built on OpenStack to deliver greater flexibility and consistency for end-users. The most recent OpenStack Summit that includes the Design Summit for planning the next bi-annual release was just completed in Vancouver, Canada.

During the Summit, OpenStack´s executive director Jonathan Bryce announced two new projects, including a service that supports federated cloud identities. AURO´s Cloud Computing platform is one of first vendors and public cloud computing services that supports this feature. The first initiative is a certification program for interoperability testing requirements…

This requires any company that wants to list themselves as “OpenStack Powered” to go through necessary testing in order to be included in the OpenStack Marketplace. AURO completed this certification when the marketplace was first launched last year. This branding can be used by public clouds, hosted private clouds, distributions and applications…

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