ATLANTA. The open source OpenStack cloud platform is not a hobbyist project, it’s a technology platform that is powering major brands today. That’s the message coming loud and clear from the OpenStack Summit here in Atlanta.
During a keynote address, Mark Collier, Chief Operating Officer of the OpenStack Foundation, noted that since OpenStack was first created in 2010 there have been nine releases. The very first OpenStack release was codenamed Austin and the barrier to entry for submitting code to it wasn’t very high.