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2OpenStack Heralds Beginning of Software-Defined Economy
Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, kicked off the OpenStack Summit with a keynote about the modern state of IT and where his organization fits in. He said we’re now not living in an agile world where every vendor competes with a startup. “OpenStack is the engine of the software-defined economy,” Bryce said.
3OpenStack Marketplace Launches
The OpenStack Marketplace launched May 12 as an online listing of OpenStack vendors and services. At the summit, the virtual cloud marketplace was made physical in the exhibitor hall.
4Mark Shuttleworth Advances Ubuntu Linux for OpenStack
Mark Shuttleworth, the charismatic founder of Ubuntu Linux, made a series of announcements, including a managed cloud services offering and a partnership with IBM.
5AT&T Growing Its OpenStack Footprint
AT&T’s Toby Ford, assistant vice president for IT Operations Strategic Realization, told OpenStack Summit attendees that his company has been using OpenStack since 2010. AT&T started with OpenStack in three data centers and expects to have it running in 10 data centers by the end of 2014.
6OpenStack Could Become a Planetary OS
7Security a Key Focus
During the OpenStack Summit, security was a key focus with multiple sessions addressing best practices and opportunities to secure the cloud. “Cloud is an interesting opportunity to do really good security work,” Bryan Payne, director of security research at Nebula, said. “The cloud has orchestration tools that allow you to roll out consistent configurations and update your software consistently, as well.”
8OpenStack Design Summit Isn’t Just for Exhibitors
9OpenStack and Linux Compared
10More OpenStack Developers Wanted
11Red Hat Brings OpenStack to Coca-Cola
12Next OpenStack Summit Is in Paris
The next OpenStack Summit is scheduled for November in Paris.