NASA and Rackspace part the clouds with open source project
A group of cloud computing stakeholders have announced a new project called OpenStack, which aims to produce a standard open source cloud computing software stack. It will allow adopters to host their own elastic computing clouds and scalable storage grids. Key participants include hosting company Rackspace and NASA. The project consists of several interoperable components that will be released incrementally as the code is made ready for public consumption. The OpenStack Object Storage framework, which is based Rackspace's Cloud Files service, is the first OpenStack component to be made available. The OpenStack contributors are also preparing to release OpenStack Compute, a framework for provisioning elastic computing clusters. The Compute component is not yet ready for an official release, but the preliminary source code is available as a developer preview. It is based on NASA's Nebula cloud architecture and Rackspace's Cloud Servers service. The OpenStac...