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    Seven Key Milestones in OpenStack’s Five-Year History

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    Sean Michael Kerner
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    July 27, 2015
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      1Seven Key Milestones in OpenStack’s Five-Year History

      1 - Seven Key Milestones in OpenStack's Five-Year History

      OpenStack, which just turned 5 years old, has emerged as one of the leading cloud platforms, and now its member roster includes governments and major companies.

      2One Small Step for Two Companies: NASA, Rackspace

      2 - One Small Step for Two Companies: NASA, Rackspace

      OpenStack was formed in July 2010 with two core components, NASA’s Nebula compute project, which was renamed Nova, and Rackspace’s Swift storage projects.

      3Formation of Foundation

      3 - Formation of Foundation

      The OpenStack Foundation was officially launched in September 2012, providing a multi-stakeholder governance model beyond just Rackspace.

      4Big Vendors Back OpenStack

      4 - Big Vendors Back OpenStack

      Today, OpenStack’s supporting company list reads like a who’s who of the IT industry. At the top tier are the platinum members, including AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, Intel, Rackspace, Red Hat and SUSE.

      5OpenStack Swift and Nova

      5 - OpenStack Swift and Nova

      The first two projects that laid the foundation for OpenStack are the Nova compute project and the Swift storage project.

      6Image, Dashboard and Identity Project Enable the OpenStack Platform

      6 - Image, Dashboard and Identity Project Enable the OpenStack Platform

      Soon after the initial release of OpenStack in 2010, multiple new projects emerged to create a more robust platform that enables infrastructure-as-a-service technology. Among the first new projects to be integrated into OpenStack were the Glance image, Horizon dashboard and Keystone identity projects.

      7OpenStack Moving to a Big Tent Model

      7 - OpenStack Moving to a Big Tent Model

      For the next major release of OpenStack, code named Liberty and scheduled to debut later this year, the open-source cloud platform is moving to a more inclusive model for project inclusion known as the “Big Tent.” Under the Big Tent, there are multiple new projects, including Magnum containers, Murano app catalog and Congress policy projects.

      8Big-Name Users Embrace OpenStack

      8 - Big-Name Users Embrace OpenStack

      Users are perhaps the single biggest force in the OpenStack community, defining needs and pushing the platform forward. Big-name users include Walmart, Best Buy, Comcast, AT&T, Yahoo, eBay and the U.S. National Security Agency.

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