The OpenStack Community
Founded and Supported by Rackspace
What is OpenStack?
OpenStack is a collaborative software project among several big players in the cloud computing space, designed to create freely available code, badly-needed standards, and common ground for the benefit of both cloud providers and cloud customers.
The OpenStack Goal
The mission of the OpenStack community is to produce the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform. By being easy to implement and massively scalable, this platform will meet the needs of both public cloud providers and enterprises deploying private clouds. Launched with code contributions from Rackspace and the NASA Nebula cloud platform, OpenStack is now supported by 35 technology leaders.
- Less risk of technology or vendor lock-in
- Increased flexibility in deployment of highly elastic commodity clouds
- Better capabilities and a stronger platform from a bigger, more robust ecosystem of resources
- Freedom to decide how you want your cloud
- Greater industry standards
- Improvements in the speed of innovation in cloud technologies
OpenStack Progress
- OpenStack Object Storage: A fully distributed object store based on Rackspace’s Cloud Files™ offering.
- OpenStack Compute: A scalable compute-provisioning engine based on the NASA Nebula cloud platform and Rackspace Cloud Servers™.
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 and Enterprise deployments.