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What if you had a tremendous mountain of data, broken up and stored across thousands of servers, and your client wanted some specific portion of that data? You could assemble the whole mountain and send the whole thing to your client, leaving the client to pick out what’s needed. But there are reasons you split it up in the first place: it’s too big to store in one place or to transfer without interruption. Additionally there are reasons you manage the data, including security and privacy, so this mountain moving might not be a good idea.

OpenStack is the platform upon which Rackspace has built its open cloud. The community-driven cloud operating system, which Rackspace co-founded, has sparked an open source cloud revolution. Enabling the community of hundreds of developers to contribute code and leverage the OpenStack cloud however they want has created a shift in how applications are developed. This blog series collects insight straight from key developers on the front lines about how they became involved in OpenStack and the open cloud, and what contributions they’ve made.

OpenStack is the platform upon which Rackspace has built its open cloud. The community-driven cloud operating system, which Rackspace co-founded, has sparked an open source cloud revolution. Enabling the community of hundreds of developers to contribute code and leverage the OpenStack cloud however they want has created a shift in how applications are developed. This blog series collects insight straight from key developers on the front lines about how they became involved in OpenStack and the open cloud, and what contributions they’ve made.

Jaspersoft provides the most flexible, cost effective and widely deployed Business Intelligence (BI) suite in the world, enabling better decision-making through highly interactive reports, dashboards and analytics. By leading in support for Cloud, big data, and mobile deployments, Jaspersoft helps its customers deliver on the promise of self-service BI at scale.

The discussion around open versus closed is reaching fever pitch, but what does it all mean. Many people have but the loosest understanding of what open cloud means and the differences between open source, open clouds and federated clouds.

The Facebook-founded Open Compute Project opens up the hardware specs for servers and datacenters – the physical components of the infrastructure stack. It’s an ambitious project that takes the concepts of open source software and applies it to the hardware space.

OpenStack is the platform upon which Rackspace has built its open cloud. The community-driven cloud operating system, which Rackspace co-founded, has sparked an open source cloud revolution. Enabling the community of hundreds of developers to contribute code and leverage the OpenStack cloud however they want has created a shift in how applications are developed. This blog series collects insight straight from key developers on the front lines about how they became involved in OpenStack and the open cloud, and what contributions they’ve made.

OpenStack has grown into a huge community, and there are a number of ways to get involved.

OpenStack is the platform upon which Rackspace has built its open cloud. The community-driven cloud operating system, which Rackspace co-founded, has sparked an open source cloud revolution. Enabling the community of hundreds of developers to contribute code and leverage the OpenStack cloud however they want has created a shift in how applications are developed. This blog series collects insight straight from key developers on the front lines about how they became involved in OpenStack and the open cloud, and what contributions they’ve made.

<img style=”border: 0pt none; float:right; padding-left:10px; padding-bottom:10px” src=”http://c179631.r31.cf0.rackcdn.com/cloud-founders-feature-2.jpg” alt=”" width=”238″ height=”238″ />Rackspace built its business on open standards, and we wrapped our trademark Fanatical Support around them. OpenStack ups the ante, because it gives us the opportunity to not only consume these standards and technologies, but to participate in their development.