“OpenStack is software anyone can use to build their own version
of Amazon?s Elastic Compute Cloud, the massively popular web
service that gives developers and businesses instant access to
virtual servers. The roots of OpenStack stretch back only about
four years to a skunk works project inside of NASA, but it has
already overturned the status quo in both the private sector and
the public. After catching the eye of Vivek Kundra ? the country?s
first CIO ? it?s used not only by NASA but by other operations
across the federal government.After it was launched to the rest of the world through an
unlikely partnership between the space agency and Rackspace ? the
Texas outfit that trails only Amazon in the cloud computing game ?
it?s now backed by over 150 companies worldwide. And it?s shaping
the future of such names as HP, Cisco, Dell, and ? if the rumors
are true ? IBM.
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