It was announced by RackSpace 2-3 weeks ago. >From what I gather so far, it's not a new VM technology but a set of API's and tools to manage multiple VM's (sounds a bit like libvirt++ and virsh, only more "productised").
See http://www.openstack.org/ On 4 August 2010 21:54, Morgan Storey <[email protected]> wrote: > > very interesting development, if it is better than KVM or the Xen that > Amazon EC2 use then it will get use or the features rolled in. The thing > that interests me most is the first two comments, touting Microsoft's Azure, > something I had heard of but from what I was aware had almost 0 uptake in > Australia, and a small fraction of the market worldwide... corporate paid > comments possibly? > > -- > Regards > Morgan Storey > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Rick Welykochy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > > > > Any comments? > >> > >> The new OpenStack project will power NASA’s own Nebula cloud and puts > >>> new pressure on Eucalyptus, as well as Amazon’s EC2 and the whole > >>> Hadoop ecosystem. The system is being released under an Apache 2 license. > >>> > >> < > >> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/nasa-gives-openstack-instant-credibility/6878 > >> > > >> > > > > Yes. There is a very high ratio of buzz words to nonbuzz in the > > above declaration. Will have to check it out to find out what it > > all means. > > > > > > cheers > > rickw > > > > > > -- > > _________________________________ > > Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services > > > > The farther you go, the less you know. > > -- Lao Tsu, "Tao Te Ching" > > > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
