Ubuntu Cloud and OpenStack
OpenStack is an Apache-licensed cloud computing platform. It was founded as a collaboration between NASA and Rackspace. After less than a year, it boasted a worldwide community of developers. Adoption has been swift, and already many large corporations, universities, and institutions are using OpenStack for cloud computing. Ubuntu and OpenStack have worked closely together for a long time, have similar release schedules, and Ubuntu is the reference operating system for OpenStack.
OpenStack uses a set of APIs for its services that are compatible with the Amazon EC2/S3 APIs. Client tools written for ...
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