OpenStack Turns 1 | Linux Today

OpenStack Turns 1

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 20, 2011

“It was 1 year ago today that openstack was officially
announced.

I remember the day well, because it was the first time I’ve
spoken with Chris Kemp, NASA’s chief technology officer for IT.
NASA was one of the key founding members of OpenStack alongside
Rackspace.

It is NASA’s Nebula engine that started off as the core compute
cloud technology, while Rackspace’s tech is on the storage
side.

“We want to see standards emerge in the stack so that components
are interchangeable and that gives us the flexibility to solve
different problems,” Kemp told me last year.

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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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