openstack项目介绍

介绍

OpenStack是一个美国国家航空航天局和Rackspace合作研发的云端运算‎软件，以Apache许可证授权，并且是一个自由软件和开放源代码项目
OpenStack是IaaS(基础设施即服务)‎软件，让任何人都可以自行建立和提供云端运算服务。
此外，OpenStack也用作建立防火墙内的“私有云”（Private Cloud），提供机构或企业内各部门共享资源。

OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. The project aims to deliver solutions for all types of clouds by being simple to implement, massively scalable, and feature rich. The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects delivering various components for a cloud infrastructure solution.

OpenStack is a collaborative software project designed to create freely available code, badly needed standards, and common ground for the benefit of both cloud providers and cloud customers. OpenStack is currently three projects:



主要项目

Nova运算项目 

Swift面向对象数据存贮项目 

Glance虚拟机器磁盘映像档（Virtual Machine Image）传送服务

The OpenStack Core Projects

Compute

OPENSTACK COMPUTE: open source software and standards for large-scale deployments of automatically provisioned virtual compute instances.

http://openstack.org/projects/compute/

OpenStack Compute is open source software designed to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. It gives you the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running instances, managing networks, and controlling access through users and projects. OpenStack Compute strives to be both hardware and hypervisor agnostic, currently supporting a variety of standard hardware configurations and seven major hypervisors.

Popular Use Cases

• Service providers offering an IaaS compute platform
• IT departments provisioning compute resources to teams and projects
• Processing big data with tools like Hadoop
• Scaling compute up and down to meet demand for web resources and applications

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关于 Rackspace

Rackspace US, Inc. (NYSE: RAX) is an IT hosting company based in San Antonio, Texas. The company also has offices in Australia, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands^[2] and Hong Kong, and data centers operating in Texas, Illinois, Virginia, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong in late 2008. The company's email and apps division operates in Blacksburg, VA.

It's clients include over half of the members of the Fortune 100.^[3] In 2011, the company was named as one of the top 100 places to work at by Fortune Magazine^[4] Rackspace UK has also appeared in The Sunday Times best employers' awards in 2007,2008,2009,2010 and 2011 and was listed in the top 50 UK workplaces as seen in the Financial Times.

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