Rackspace’s CTO on the promise of OpenStack

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By: Barton George (11/18/2010)

At the Web 2.0 summit out in San Francisco, I sat in a session led by RackSpace‘s CTO John Engates. After the session finished I grabbed some time with John to learn more about his thoughts on OpenStack, the open source cloud platform that Rackspace, along with NASA, helped kick off. The promise of OpenStack - Rackspace CTO Some of the ground John covers: How OpenStack directly addresses some of the most common reservations people have about the cloud. How OpenStack is like Android. (1:50) NTT’s interest in, and commitment to, OpenStack for the Japanese market. Extra-credit reading: OpenStack Plans Next Two Cloud Platform Releases at First Public Design Summit Talking to NASA CTO about OpenStack Cloud Platform Talking to OpenStack Chief Architect – Rick Clark Pau for now…

At the Web 2.0 summit out in San Francisco, I sat in a session led by RackSpace‘s CTO John Engates. After the session finished I grabbed some time with John to learn more about his thoughts on OpenStack, the open source cloud platform that Rackspace, along with NASA, helped kick off.

The promise of OpenStack - Rackspace CTO

Some of the ground John covers:

How OpenStack directly addresses some of the most common reservations people have about the cloud.
How OpenStack is like Android.
(1:50) NTT’s interest in, and commitment to, OpenStack for the Japanese market.

Extra-credit reading:

OpenStack Plans Next Two Cloud Platform Releases at First Public Design Summit
Talking to NASA CTO about OpenStack Cloud Platform
Talking to OpenStack Chief Architect – Rick Clark

Pau for now…

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