OpenStack Turned 3

July 23, 2013 by Dave Michels

OpenStack is an emerging open private cloud alternative,
and it’s sure to impact UC significantly. OpenStack just celebrated its
third birthday. OpenStack got its start from NASA and
Rackspace as a private cloud alternative to Amazon’s public AWS. In just
three years, the effort now has support from 231 companies,
contributions from 1,036 individuals, implementations in 121 countries,
and several real-life customer implementations including Best Buy,
Bloomberg, Comcast, Fidelity, and PayPal.

By Dave Michels

Dave is an independent analyst and founder of TalkingPointz which is focused on enterprise communications. In addition to this (free and paid) content on TalkingPointz, he contributes to industry sites, can be found at major industry events, and provides advisory services to vendors and financial analysts.

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