I know a lot of you in IT are the ones responsible for dealing with any and all infrastructure issues that arise in your organization. Perhaps this deals with managing the LAN, mobile network, and/or volumes of data.
As cloud-computing becomes more and more common place, organizations are beginning to use the technology as a means for managing their back end systems.
There are a variety of options of available, too – OpenStack is one that I recently stumbled across.
It looks promising…
OpenStack is designed to provide reliable cloud-based infrastructure for any organization that has a standard hardware stack.
The platform is also open source (via the Apache 2.0 License) so it can be further adapted for your particular needs.
Of course, I’d much rather be the one building software on top of the infrastructure. You IT guys and your hardware … ;).
Kevin says
Cool! Hadn’t heard about that one yet….looks like it’s not officially released until this fall though.
I’ve used Eucalyptus in Ubuntu Server Edition some. It’s nice because it conforms to Amazon’s EC2 APIs. It looks like OpenStack will too, always good to have options and be able to scale out to the cloud when you need to.
Kevin
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Tom says
Unless you’ve got the money and the infrastructure to bring your data store in house (or manage multiple data centers), the cloud is where things seem to be headed.