OpenStack Havana Addresses Two Security Challenges
October 21, 2013
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.
One of the big enhancement areas of the new OpenStack Havana open source cloud computing platform is security. The OpenStack Foundation launched the eighth release of OpenStack last week, and according to IBM (IBM), one of the many vendors supporting OpenStack, the organization has increased the security elements of the cloud platform.
With more and more businesses and government organizations looking to OpenStack to fulfill their cloud needs, security is becoming more important to the overall design of the cloud computing platform. According to IBM, security has up to now been the biggest inhibitor to cloud adoption, but Havana will play a significant role in differentiating cloud vendors when it comes to security…
The latest OpenStack release has approximately 400 new features, which are likely to take center stage at the next OpenStack Summit, which will take place in a couple of weeks in Hong Kong. And one of the areas that OpenStack has found to be a big growth area is private cloud, which requires as much or more security (or at least the perception of more security) than the public cloud…
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