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    OpenStack at Age 3: 11 Major Milestones in Its Evolution

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    June 17, 2013
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      1OpenStack at Age 3: 11 Major Milestones in Its Evolution

      1 - OpenStack at Age 3: 11 Major Milestones in Its Evolution

      by Chris Preimesberger

      2A Private Cloud Is Born

      2 - A Private Cloud Is Born

      In July 2010, Rackspace Hosting and NASA created OpenStack, an open-source cloud computing operating system, designed to take on the likes of VMware’s vSphere, Microsoft’s Azure, CloudStack and Amazon AWS. Citrix and Dell are among the key partners. The community’s first official release, code-named Austin, becomes available just four months later with plans to release regular updates of the software every few months.

      3OpenStack Is Born

      3 - OpenStack Is Born

      In 2011, OpenStack rolled out version 2, Diablo, which ended up not being very easy to use and was later replaced by version 3, Folsom. Additionally, there was controversy in the community around the transparency of the project and Rackspace’s control. Talks began about starting a governing party to add more transparency to the project.

      4A Solid Foundation Emerges

      4 - A Solid Foundation Emerges

      In 2012, OpenStack made great strides by expanding its governance model. The board of directors formed and raised $10 million to support operations.

      5Big Names Offer Support

      5 - Big Names Offer Support

      Big names also decided to support the OpenStack initiative, including EMC, VMware and Red Hat—to name a few. Adding these big names to the roster drove more big players and community members to get involved and helped expand the project for greater potential, as Rackspace noted during the OpenStack and Design Summit in April of 2012.

      6Big Projects Built on OpenStack Are Deployed

      6 - Big Projects Built on OpenStack Are Deployed

      Large in-production deployments (Comcast and WebEx) in 2012 helped spark interest in the project and enticed more OpenStack projects. These production deployments served as proof points that the software was maturing.

      7What Quantum Did for OpenStack

      7 - What Quantum Did for OpenStack

      In October 2012, the Folsom release added the most important new component to OpenStack, Quantum. Quantum is more robust and replaces the networking functionality in Nova.

      8Hear the Grizzly Roar

      8 - Hear the Grizzly Roar

      In April 2013, OpenStack Grizzly was the seventh release of the open-source software and had more than 230 new features. This release was another sign of OpenStack’s increasing maturity. However, there are still major barriers to OpenStack projects being out-of-the-box production-ready.

      9Worldwide User Adoption Rates

      9 - Worldwide User Adoption Rates

      The adoption of OpenStack has seen a major uptick internationally in the last year, especially in China and India, and keeps growing. Today, there are a total of 16 U.S.-based groups, 40 groups outside the U.S and more than 9,000 community members in 87 different countries.

      102013 and a Smorgasbord of Choices: The Good Side

      10 - 2013 and a Smorgasbord of Choices: The Good Side

      There are a number of private cloud offerings for OpenStack today, including Hewlett-Packard, eNovance, Rackspace, Red Hat and DreamHost. The competition and added involvement has accelerated development and promotes diversity of choices in platforms.

      112013 and a Smorgasbord of Choices: The Bad Side

      11 - 2013 and a Smorgasbord of Choices: The Bad Side

      Some of the players that have thrown their hats in the ring will not be around in a few years. Tech companies often get acquired or fade out. You might be running on a platform that does not exist in the future. Be sure to research the offering, the company and, most importantly, the communities attached to the platform. The larger the community, the greater the asset if the platform is lost.

      12What’s to Come? Ease of Use Becomes, Well, Easier

      12 - What's to Come? Ease of Use Becomes, Well, Easier

      As the number of users and contributors grows, more bugs are identified and squashed, leading to a more stable and more user-friendly OpenStack.

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