Open Cubed: Meet the New Cloud Stack | Linux Today

Open Cubed: Meet the New Cloud Stack

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 16, 2011

“The recent announcements of Facebook’s Open Compute and
VMware’s Cloud Foundry address the hardware architecture and
platform-as-a-service (PaaS) layers, respectively.

“Together with Rackspace’s OpenStack, which addresses the
infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) layer, much of the code and data
center and server designs one might need to build a cloud from the
ground up are available free of charge. Despite their disparity in
terms of function, they might actually be ideal complements to one
another.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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