Netiquette IQ Technical Term of The Day - OpenStack

whais.com 7/23/14            OpenStack

OpenStack is an open source infrastructure as a service (IaaS) initiative for creating and managing large groups of virtual private servers in a data center. The goals of the OpenStack initiative are to support interoperability between cloud services and allow businesses to build Amazon-like cloud services in their own data centers. OpenStack, which is freely available under the Apache 2.0 license, is often referred to in the media as "the Linux of the Cloud" and is compared to Eucalyptus and the Apache CloudStack project, two other open source cloud initiatives. OpenStack has a modular architecture that currently has eleven components: Nova - provides virtual machines (VMs) upon demand. Swift - provides a scalable storage system that supports object storage. Cinder - provides persistent block storage to guest VMs. Glance - provides a catalog and repository for virtual disk images. Keystone -  provides authentication and authorization for all the OpenStack services. Horizon - provides a modular web-based user interface for OpenStack services. Neutron - provides network connectivity-as-a-service between interface devices managed by OpenStack services. Ceilometer - provides a single point of contact for billing systems. Heat - provides orchestration services for multiple composite cloud applications. Trove - provides database-as-a-service provisioning for relational and non-relational database engines. Sahara - provides data processing services for OpenStack-managed resources. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) worked with Rackspace, a managed hosting and cloud computing service provider, to develop OpenStack. RackSpace donated the code that powers its storage and content delivery service (Cloud Files) and production servers (Cloud Servers). NASA contributed the technology that powers Nebula, their high performance computing, networking and data storage cloud service that allows researchers to work with large scientific data sets. OpenStack officially became an independent non-profit organization in September 2012. The OpenStack community, which is overseen by a board of directors, is comprised of many direct and indirect competitors, including IBM, Intel and VMware.   =============================== In addition to this blog, I have authored the premiere book on Netiquette, "Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". You can view my profile, reviews of the book and content excerpts at:  www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki  If you would like to listen to experts in all aspects of Netiquette and communication, try my radio show on BlogtalkRadio  and an online newsletter via paper.li.I have established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and  Yahoo.  I am also a member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and Minding Manners among others. I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and I have been contributing to the blogs Everything Email and emailmonday . My work has appeared in numerous publications and I have presented to groups such as The Breakfast Club of NJ Rider University and  PSG of Mercer County New Jersey. ==========================================