Mitaka, the first OpenStack cloud platform release of 2016, is now out after six months of development and the participation of a global community of 2,336 developers from 293 organizations. OpenStack Mitaka is the 13th release from the open-source cloud effort, which Rackspace and NASA began in June 2010.
The OpenStack community has grown significantly, and the technology is now used at some of the largest organizations, including Walmart, eBay, PayPal, AT&T, Comcast, IBM, Cisco, Dell, Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.