OpenStack Foundation Launches With $10M in Funding, 5600 Members
September 21, 2012
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Darryl K. Taft.
The OpenStack Foundation has officially launched boasting $10 million in funding and 5,600 members. The OpenStack community has announced the formal launch of the new OpenStack Foundation to continue to promote the development and adoption of the open-source OpenStack cloud software.
As the independent home for OpenStack, the foundation has already attracted more than 5,600 individual members, secured more than $10 million in funding and is ready to fulfill the OpenStack mission of becoming the ubiquitous cloud computing platform…
”As a driving force behind OpenStack, Rackspace helped grow the community to where it is today, and now with the amazing support from more than 180 member companies, the Foundation is ready to take flight,” said Lew Moorman, president of Rackspace, which co-founded the OpenStack project, in a statement. “As a member of the board, we look forward to working with the other members to continue building OpenStack to be the de facto standard open-source software for public and private clouds. We believe OpenStack and the OpenStack ecosystem is truly disrupting enterprise IT and we hear about it from our customers who are using our public and private cloud options available on OpenStack."…
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