Akanda Pledges to Keep SDN Tech for OpenStack Open-Source | Linux Today

Akanda Pledges to Keep SDN Tech for OpenStack Open-Source

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 23, 2015

Hosting and cloud services vendor DreamHost is now using a new open-source Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology to help enable its OpenStack powered cloud. That technology is from Akanda, a company that has now been spunoff as a new startup led by CEO Henrik Rosendahl.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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