How The Cloud Can Unify The World: OpenStack and Nebula
October 30, 2012
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Jacqueline Vanacek.
Imagine a world in which researchers share data via one massive supercomputer to advance medicine, energy, agriculture … where nations respond in unison to natural disasters … and governments share services around the world.
This is what I envisioned as I spoke with Chris Kemp, founder and CEO of Nebula and co-founder of OpenStack. It’s a world in which business and government can deliver only their core competencies – while buying other services from global partners to fulfill their needs. As we increase the scale of cloud computing to manage big data, we increase our ability to “operate as one” — in research, business, government, everything. Chris Kemp confirmed that we are building the elements of a global cloud architecture that can make that vision real…
It starts with OpenStack. That’s the open source cloud operating system that can deliver massive scale for both public and private clouds. OpenStack’s global community built this software to control large pools of distributed compute, storage and networking resources. Users can provision project resources over the Internet. An OpenStack environment would operate like the Amazon EC2 public cloud…
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