5 Things You Need To Know About CloudStack
February 7, 2015
Grazed from TechWeekEurope. Author: Ben Sullivan.
CloudStack is an open source cloud software platform which is designed to deploy networks of scalable virtual machines in an Infrastructure-as-a-Service environment. It is often likened to OpenStack, and provides on-premises cloud computing as part of a hybrid cloud solution.
The ‘stack’ refers to the entire range of features companies look for in an IaaS solution such as cloudstack orchestration, Network-as-a-Service, user management, and an open API. CloudStack supports VMware, KV, Hyper-V, and Xen hypervisor…
Who created Cloudstack?
CloudStack was initially created in 2008 by a startup called VMOps. The firm then changed its name to Cloud.com and released most of the source code to CloudStack in 2010…
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