New to OpenStack: Learn these 5 cloud computing terms

Grazed from TheServerSide. Author: Cameron McKenzie.

If you’re attending an OpenStack conference for the first time and don’t want to come across as a neophyte — either when talking to speakers about cloud computing, or to vendors about distributed storage and the pitfalls of using open source hypervisors while cruising the exhibitors’ hall — here are a few cloud computing terms you should become familiar with to create the impression you’re as knowledgeable as anyone else who’s pretending to know what they’re talking about.

OpenStack — This is the open source, cloud computing software everyone is talking about. If you’ve ever wanted to create your own private cloud, but knew that creating a scalable, distributed and easily managed product was just too much work, then OpenStack is for you. It should be noted that OpenStack is the only software piece that makes managing all the compute pools, networked servers, storage systems and centralized administration possible. However, the hardware on which this private cloud software is deployed is not associated with OpenStack…

Swift — Two of the most core concerns with cloud-based systems are 1) how to manage compute resources and 2) how two manage data across the cloud. Also known as OpenStack Object Storage, Swift addresses the latter; namely, the challenges of dealing with data and object storage across a highly distributed system…

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