OpenStack began in 2010 as a joint project of Rackspace Hosting and NASA.
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10 Facts About OpenStack
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OpenStack organization has grown rapidly and is supported by more than 540 companies.
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OpenStack has a modular architecture with various code names for its components.
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OpenStack Telemetry provides a Single Point Of Contact for billing systems, providing all the counters they need to establish customer billing, across all current and future OpenStack components.
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OpenStack Shared File System provides an open API to manage shares in a vendor agnostic framework.
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OpenStack is governed by the OpenInfra foundation and its board of directors.
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An OpenStack Appliance is the name given to software that can support the OpenStack cloud computing platform on either physical devices such as servers or virtual machines or a combination of the two.
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Large number of vendors offer OpenStack solutions, meaning that an organization wishing to deploy the technology has a complex task inselecting the vendor offer that best matches its business requirements.
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OpenStack is a complex entity, and adopters face a range of challenges when trying to implement OpenStack in an organisation.
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OpenStack is a suite of projects rather than a single product, and because each of the various applications needs to be configured tosuit the user's requirements, installation is complex and requires a range of complementary skill-sets for an optimum set-up.
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