OpenStack Summit: Open Cloud Platform Gets Big Push
October 17, 2012
One of the more interesting trends in cloud computing is the emergence of OpenStack, a set of open-source projects to set up public and private cloud computing solutions. This was originally set up by Rackspace Hosting and NASA, but now has grown into a full platform run by the OpenStack Foundation and held its own summit this week.
Troy Toman, senior director for cloud compute engineering at Rackspace and a director of the OpenStack Foundation, said the major projects within OpenStack include Nova, an open-source cloud computing fabric; Glance, for managing server (virtual machine) images; and Quantum, for providing "network as a service" functions. The last one is an API for dynamically configuring virtual networks, effectively a method of software-defined networking (SDN), and is a big part of the latest release of OpenStack, known as "Folsom." (Companies such as Nicira, which is now becoming part of VMware, have been driving this.)…
Steve Hallett, head of infrastructure engineering and cloud operations at X.commerce, part of eBay, said his firm is using OpenStack to build a platform where developers and merchants can integrate their offerings with eBay’s services. The company decided to use OpenStack about a year and a half ago and launched the production version of the platform on the "Diablo" version of OpenStack in April. Two months ago, the company moved to the "Essex" version and in a few weeks plans an upgrade to "Folsom." The new version includes more options for high-availability storage, as well as automating networking on the software level…
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