Exclusive: Comcast casts its lot with OpenStack

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

The nation’s biggest broadband and cable provider is joining the OpenStack Foundation, just in time for it’s big coming out party in San Diego next week. Comcast is also working with Cisco on applications that can build on that open-source infrastructure.

Updated: Comcast, the nation’s largest cable company, is now aboard the OpenStack cloud effort having joined the OpenStack Foundation as a member, a Comcast spokeswoman confirmed on Thursday. That’s a big win for for OpenStack before the Foundation’s big coming out party at the OpenStack Summit next week in San Diego…

Update: There’s a bit of confusion among the principals about Comcast’s OpenStack role. A spokeswoman for the cable company said it’s aboard the foundation. An OpenStack spokeswoman said it’s participating in the community but is not on the foundation. Stay tuned for an update.

Depending on deliverables, this new addition could be a big deal given Comcast’s huge broadband reach more than 18 million households and thousands of small businesses it supports with broadband Internet and phone services…

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