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Canonical
on 8 October 2012

What is OpenStack

OpenStack

Everyone’s talking about OpenStack.

And it’s no great surprise. Over 150 key players in open source technology have come together to create the place where the open source cloud will be delivered.

It is:

  • Infrastructure as a service
  • A platform to deploy services
  • The world’s highest profile open source project
  • A huge source of enterprise action
  • An ecosystem for driving cloud innovation

And a whole lot more…

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