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About the OpenStack® Cloud Operating System
OpenStack
is a massively scalable cloud operating system, powering some of the world's leading clouds. Backed by more than 130 participating organizations, OpenStack
is quickly becoming the industry standard for public and private clouds.
OpenStack clouds are built to talk to each other, making it easy to move applications and data between
data centers
and even different service providers. And since it's all open source, you're in control of your destiny—you don't have
to relinquish control to a proprietary solution.
Compute
Storage
Management
Known as "OpenStack Compute," the computing engine is capable of provisioning virtual machines at massive scale.
Here are a few key features and benefits of the computing engine inside of OpenStack:
| Features | Benefits |
|---|---|
| Comprehensive User Tools | Provides the right tool for the job, allowing everyone the ability to use the cloud |
| Flexible Networking (Flat, VLAN, IPv4/6) | Allows the cloud to fit into existing networking and security architectures |
| Automated Deployment Tools | Speeds implementation and facilitates a consistent environment |
| Server Image Catalog | Enables users to provide templates to simplify the use of the cloud as well as to enable consistency and security while managing assets |
OpenStack Object Storage powers some of the leading cloud
storage services, such as Rackspace Cloud Files,
Internap XIPCloud Storage, and NephoScale Cloud Storage. It is also storing images from space as we speak, powering
NASA's Nebula cloud storage. Today, billions of objects and petabytes of data are in production relying on this
technology. Here are a few of the key features and benefits:
| Features | Benefits |
|---|---|
| Automated System Management | Lights out data center operation with built-in RAID style rebuilds, automatic rebalancing on upgrades |
| Architected for Standard Hardware | Provides cost savings from standard hardware evolution are passed along to cost/GB of the storage system |
| Unlimited Size Objects | No need for additional chunk management system to handle big data sets |
| Easy to Program REST API | Allows developers to quickly integrate object storage into custom designed business applications |
| Simple Web User and Management Interface | Provides an interface that makes it easy for users to learn the power and simplicity of object storage |
OpenStack also includes components designed to aid in the management of large-scale
cloud deployments.
The OpenStack Image Service
Provides discovery, registration, and delivery services for virtual disk images.
The OpenStack Identity Service
Provides unified authentication across all OpenStack projects and integrates with existing authentication systems.
The OpenStack Dashboard
Enables administrators and users to access and provision cloud-based resources through a self-service portal.
How Are Enterprises Using OpenStack?
- Employees realize how easy it is to access the public cloud with just a credit card number, where they circumvent IT for instant computing and storage resources. OpenStack gives you the power to offer employees access to a self-service cloud at business speed, while keeping you in control.
- By building private OpenStack clouds in the company's data center, IT organizations give their employees the same instant gratification without sacrificing critical control, oversight, and resource tracking.
- Compatibility with public OpenStack clouds means enterprises are prepared for the future—making it easy to migrate the workloads to public clouds when conditions are right, based on security policies, economics, and other key business criteria.
How Are Telcos, Service Providers, and Government Agencies Using OpenStack?
- As customers seek choices in public clouds, service providers are responding by using the OpenStack cloud operating system in their data centers at massive scale.
- Proven to scale to multiple petabytes and billions of objects, OpenStack Object Storage is powering "storage as a service" offerings from companies such as Internap, NephoScale, and Rackspace. For customers, this means easily storing their data in a reliable and secure manner for pennies per month per gigabyte.
- NASA is the largest collector of data in human history. When looking for a powerful cloud operating system to store and analyze that incredible quantity of data, they choose OpenStack. The data is stored using the OpenStack Object Storage feature, and it's analyzed using the computing power of OpenStack Compute. All of this is in production today.
Latest OpenStack Resources
Bootstrapping OpenStack Clouds
Rackspace Services for OpenStack® has been working closely with the Dell Data Center Solutions team to help organizations get up and running quickly with OpenStack. This Dell technical whitepaper, "Bootstrapping OpenStack Clouds," walks you through the process to get started with OpenStack and Dell Power Edge C class hardware, which could serve as the foundation for your elastic cloud infrastructure. The paper is authored by Rob Hirschfeld and Greg Althaus from Dell, with contributions from Brett Piatt of Rackspace Services for OpenStack.
OpenStack Online Documentation
Start getting up to speed with OpenStack using these online manuals. Topics include administering OpenStack Compute, administering OpenStack Object Storage, and developing using the Object Storage APIs.
Recent OpenStack Blog Posts
Community Weekly Review (Oct 28 - Nov 4)
STEFANO MAFFULLI | NOVEMBER 4, 2011
Great Turnout at the first Austin OpenStack Meetup
JOSEPH GEORGE | OCTOBER 30, 2011
A team for the OpenStack International Community
STEFANO MAFFULLI | OCTOBER 27, 2011
