Eight Up and Coming OpenStack Cloud Projects | Linux Today

Eight Up and Coming OpenStack Cloud Projects

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Sean Michael Kerner
Sep 26, 2014

When the open-source OpenStack cloud platform first got started back in 2010, there were only two components, with Rackspace bringing in the Swift storage project and NASA contributing the Nova compute piece. Over the last four years, OpenStack has expanded significantly beyond its initial two core contributors and two primary components.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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