Dell’s Cloud Strategy Built on OpenStack Architecture

Grazed from Piston. Author: Editorial Staff.

Dell can see which way the winds are blowing and has no interest in being left behind. It’s no surprise, then, that it’s basing its cloud on OpenStack architecture as well as deploying (and supporting) other open source software. A July Geekzone article chronicles Dell’s recent announcement that it is expanding its commercial product offerings that leverage open source software like OpenStack and Hadoop.

The fact that Dell is doubling down on the cloud only further indicates how vital cloud computing is for businesses of all sizes – not to mention IT and software companies. Dell is also expanding upon its work with its own Crowbar, an open source community platform to help manage cloud and big data ecosystems…

The bottom line here is that Dell is supporting OpenStack because the market demands it. Although we appreciate the movement toward OpenStack from a large company, this is our blog and we would be remiss if we didn’t point out that you can download the very best version of OpenStack right here and now…

Read more from the source @ http://www.pistoncloud.com/2013/09/dell-cloud-strategy-openstack-architecture/