Cloud Computing: 2015 – A big year for OpenStack

February 20, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from WhaTech.  Author: Editorial Staff.

In November 2013, in a post on the itnews.com.au web site, IT consultant Dez Blanchfield described OpenStack as "the one technology likely to pose a competitive threat to the Amazon Web Services and Google juggernauts."

Citing Gartner, he explained: "AWS now has five times the infrastructure-as-a-service compute capacity of its 14 biggest rivals put together. The individual efforts of Rackspace, Microsoft, IBM, HP, CSC or Telstra are unlikely to create a genuine competitive threat in the near-term."  So, OpenStack is clearly important. Very important. But what exactly is it? And 14 months down the track, how is it faring?…


OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage and networking resources in a data centre. These resources are managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control and enables users to provision resources through a web interface…

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