The Austin releases of OpenStack Compute and OpenStack Object Storage are now avaialable.
What OpenStack is: OpenStack is a collection of open source technology products delivering a scalable, secure, standards-based cloud computing software solution. OpenStack is currently developing two interrelated technologies: OpenStack Compute and OpenStack Object Storage. OpenStack Compute is the internal fabric of the cloud creating and managing large groups of virtual private servers and OpenStack Object Storage is software for creating redundant, scalable object storage using clusters of commodity servers to store terabytes or even petabytes of data.
Who's behind OpenStack: OpenStack is a global software community of technologists, developers, researchers and corporations sharing resources, technology, and ideas to create a massively scalable, secure open source cloud infrastructure software package. With this open technology, any organization can create and offer cloud computing services running on standard hardware.
Who uses OpenStack: Corporations, service providers, VARS, SMBs, researchers, and global data centers looking to deploy large-scale cloud deployments for private or public clouds leveraging the support and resulting technology of a global open source community.
Why open matters: All of the code for OpenStack is freely available under the Apache 2.0 license. Anyone can run it, build on it, or submit changes back to the project. We strongly believe that an open development model is the only way to foster badly-needed cloud standards, remove the fear of proprietary lock-in for cloud customers, and create a large ecosystem that spans cloud providers.
For more information, visit the OpenStack Community Q&A.
The Business Track for the Developer Summit is taking shape nicely. Here's an early preview to further peak your interest in this event.
This week: Some great stats on #openstack @ freenode, along with events and community news.
A way for the community to learn about all the various activities occurring on a weekly basis
OpenStack is pleased to open registration for the Design Summit San Antonio 2010 from November 9 – 12, 2010. Due to facility limitations we are only accepting 300 registrations for this event so please register soon to avoid complications.
To give the community some additional time, we’ve extended the nomination deadline to October 15th, 2010. Read the details in Mark's blog post.
Having spent the last three years managing the open source Xen.org community, Stephen Spector has now joined OpenStack to continue his promotion and support of open source technologies. Welcome, Stephen!
Mark Collier blogs about the governance model for the OpenStack community. Read the governance documents and learn how to participate in the upcomming elections.
Wow, what a crazy month it has been! Jim Curry blogs about the activity so far and what's planned for the upcomming October 21 "Austin" release of OpenStack.
The Second OpenStack Design Conference is scheduled for November 9th-12th in San Antonio, Texas.
Bringing extensive experience in creating killer documentation for open source projects, Anne Gentle has joined OpenStack and blogs about her first steps, plus how you can help build in documentation as part of the ethos of our community.
