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Today Rackspace and NASA announced OpenStack, an open source cloud platform that they are collaborating on and building a community around.  Last week the inaugural OpenStack design summit was held here in Austin with 20 companies from around the world, including Dell, participating.

During one of the breaks I grabbed sometime with Rackspace’s cloud president, Lew Moorman to learn more about the effort and get his thoughts:

Some of the topics Lew tackles:

• What is OpenStack (an opensource set of technologies for building clouds…)
• Why Rackspace decided to opensource their code .
• How Rackspace got hooked up with NASA and what each brings to the party.
• Taking Nebula’s core foundation and adding some elements from Rackspace’s side in order to put together a release candidate that should be available to the community this Fall.

Extra-credit reading:

• Press Release: Rackspace Open Sources Cloud Platform; Plans to Collaborate with NASA and other Industry Leaders
• Blog: NASA’s chief cloud architect talks OpenStack
• Blog: Talkin’ to the project lead of OpenStack Object Storage
• Blog: OpenStack Compute – talking to the chief architect
• OpenStack.org home page

Pau for now…

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