Is OpenStack the future of Cloud Computing
July 29, 2014
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Alan Ho.
Earlier in July, one of the biggest cloud computing trends to make headlines in recent years celebrated another milestone when it reached its fourth birthday. OpenStack has grown and developed over the past four years, to the point where it is now garnering serious attention from IT executives and developers around the world. One region that is picking up its rate of OpenStack interest is the Asia-Pacific, which hosted the region’s first OpenStack Summit two years ago to much success.
At that event, China OpenStack User Group (COSUG) manager Hui Cheng estimated that the growing group had more than 2,500 members, making it possibly the largest user group outside of the U.S. COSUG’s China micro-blogging site, Weibo, also shows more than 2,000 members currently following the group’s foray into OpenStack…
While still a comparatively “young” technology, its potential is significant—one day, OpenStack may become a household name related to cloud computing. Boasting many of the general benefits associated with open source cloud platforms while also featuring its own advantages, such as an extensive, global community of collaborative developers, there are several reasons why it is worth keeping an eye on OpenStack…
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