The OpenStack market at a glance
Make or Buy?
The market offers a variety of options for accessing OpenStack. If you really want to, you can start with the sources and build everything yourself. Somewhat more convenient are the community distributions of Linux and the OpenStack versions they integrate.
In enterprise environments, users are spoiled with even more choices. Commercial OpenStack distributions let you build a cloud in your own IT environment. If you don't have the space to do so, hosting service providers are waiting in the wings with suitable offerings.
Last but not least are vendors for the public cloud that rely on OpenStack behind the scenes. Of course, you can also arbitrarily combine the different offerings. Many roads lead to OpenStack; you only need to walk down them.
Infos
- OpenStack: http://www.openstack.org
- Rackspace: http://www.rackspace.com
- NASA: http://www.nasa.gov
- Cloud computing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
- OpenStack releases: http://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Releases
- Folsom how-to: http://wiki.debian.org/OpenStackHowto/Folsom
- Canonical joins OpenStack: http://blog.canonical.com/2011/02/03/canonical-joins-the-openstack-community/
- Red Hat Enterprise OpenStack preview: http://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/openstack-platform
- SUSE Enterprise Private Cloud: https://www.suse.com/promo/susecloud.html
- OpenStack supporters: http://www.openstack.org/foundation/companies/
- OpenStack Foundation: http://www.openstack.org/blog/2012/07/join-the-openstack-foundation/
- Join OpenStack: http://www.openstack.org/join
- OpenStack marketplace: http://www.openstack.org/marketplace/distros/
- OpenStack hypervisors: http://docs.openstack.org/juno/config-reference/content/section_compute-hypervisors.html
- KVM: http://www.linux-kvm.org
- Xen: http://www.xenproject.org
- VMware: http://www.vmware.com
- Microsoft virtualization: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/solutions/virtualization.aspx
- Linux containers: http://linuxcontainers.org
- Docker: http://www.docker.com
- OpenStack and Docker: http://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Docker
- OpenSUSE: http://www.opensuse.org/en/
- openSUSE OpenStack: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:OpenStack
- Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org
- Fedora OpenStack: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OpenStack
- OpenStack public clouds: http://www.openstack.org/marketplace/public-clouds/
- Rackspace developer portal: http://developer.rackspace.com
- OpenStack-hosted private clouds: http://www.openstack.org/marketplace/hosted-private-clouds/
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