OpenStack: Seagate, HP Promote Cloud Platform Ahead of Conference
February 21, 2013
Grazed from Talkin Cloud. Author: Joe Panettieri.
OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform, won praise today from Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and Seagate Technologies (NASDAQ: STX). Call it a hunch but I bet Seagate’s cloud backup business (EVault) makes some OpenStack moves, too. The applause comes as cloud services providers (CSPs) and the open source community prepare for a major OpenStack Conference in April 2013.
OpenStack seeks to offer a standard platform for public and private clouds, allowing partners and customers to move workloads more easily between various cloud systems. HP Public Cloud is built on OpenStack, and now Seagate has also endorsed the platform…
Seagate is now a corporate sponsor member of the OpenStack Foundation and Open Compute Project. Seagate says it will help cloud builders to develop more scalable, customizable solutions using open platforms while reducing operating costs and providing benefits for consumers in the marketplace. More than 150 companies have joined the foundation and project initiatives…
Read more from the source @ http://talkincloud.com/cloud-computing-and-open-source/openstack-seagate-hp-promote-cloud-platform-ahead-conference