<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">From the official OpenStack press release at <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110203006362/en/OpenStack-Ready-Deploy-%E2%80%98Bexar%E2%80%99-Code-Release">http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110203006362/en/OpenStack-Ready-Deploy-%E2%80%98Bexar%E2%80%99-Code-Release</a><div><br></div><div><h1 class="epi-fontLg bwalignc">
<b>OpenStack is Ready to Deploy With ‘Bexar’ Code Release</b>
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<div id="story_subheadline"><p class="bwalignc">
<i>Ubuntu leader Canonical and Cisco now make 50 companies
participating
in OpenStack community</i>
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<!-- start story body --><p>SAN ANTONIO--(<a href="http://www.businesswire.com/">BUSINESS
WIRE</a>)--<a target="_blank" href="http://www.openstack.org">OpenStack</a>™,
the open source cloud
project founded by Rackspace® Hosting and NASA, today announced
the
‘Bexar’ code release of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.openstack.org/projects/compute/">OpenStack
Compute</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.openstack.org/projects/storage/">Object
Storage</a> which includes a variety of new features, an official
documentation site and key new participants to drive adoption of
the
emerging cloud standard by service providers and enterprise users.
While
OpenStack Object Storage has already been deployed at commercial
scale,
for the first time, the release of these new features and
documentation
makes OpenStack Compute ready to deploy as an open source
alternative to
proprietary, expensive virtualization solutions.
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<blockquote><p>“OpenStack is rapidly moving to solve these problems, and
it’s evident to us that we need an open cloud standard to best
enable
hybrid scenarios, federation and easy migration. We appreciate the
hundreds of contributors who see the vision and have joined the
cause.”</p></blockquote><p>
“We’ve heard CIOs hesitate to invest in proprietary cloud
technology,
because they don’t to want be locked in for the long haul. They
want the
freedom to switch cloud hosting or technology providers and gain
more
flexibility with their deployments,” said Jim Curry, GM of
OpenStack at
Rackspace. “OpenStack is rapidly moving to solve these problems,
and
it’s evident to us that we need an open cloud standard to best
enable
hybrid scenarios, federation and easy migration. We appreciate the
hundreds of contributors who see the vision and have joined the
cause.”
</p><p>
<b>Bexar Release Features</b>
</p><p>
The Bexar release of OpenStack Compute introduces new enterprise
features that streamline the installation process, allow users to
pre-install and create their own application environments and
instantly
spin up the same copy as they scale out. The full <a target="_blank" href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/02/the-openstack-bexar-release/">list
of features</a> in Compute includes internationalization, support
for
IPv6, Hyper-V, iSCSI with XenAPI, XenServer snapshots and raw disk
images, as well as the addition of a sub-project code-named
Glance, an
image discovery and delivery service that enables portability of
workloads between OpenStack clouds. Object Storage now supports
storing
of files up to unlimited sizes, and the two projects have become
more
tightly integrated.
</p><p>
The new release also includes the launch of an official <a target="_blank" href="http://docs.openstack.org/">documentation
site</a> with PDF and HTML manuals to guide users through
installation
and deployment. The new features and documentation were made
possible by
contributions from a long list of core contributors and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.openstack.org/community/">participating
companies</a>, including Anso Labs, Citrix, <a href="http://Cloud.com">Cloud.com</a>, FathomDB,
NTT
Data and Rackspace.
</p><p>
The theme of the next OpenStack ‘Cactus’ release, expected in
April,
will be optimizing the project for service provider-scale
deployments.
Cactus is also expected to include additional highly requested
features
such as live migration of virtual machines. The next public Design
Summit will take place April 26-29, 2011 in Santa Clara, CA, where
community members will plan for the following two releases,
including
‘Diablo’ to be released Summer 2011.
</p><p>
<b>Participating Companies</b>
</p><p>
New OpenStack community members Canonical, Cisco, Extreme Networks
and
Grid Dynamics have joined the 50-member-strong alliance to
continue
advancing the code base and drive adoption of the open cloud
operating
system. Canonical has committed to include OpenStack in the April
release of Ubuntu Server 11.04, while Cisco has assembled a
development
team of engineers that will contribute design specifications and
code to
the OpenStack community.
</p><p>
"We are really delighted to bring the Bexar release to Ubuntu
users in
the next version of Ubuntu Server in April," said Neil Levine, VP
of
Corporate Services at Canonical. "Our goal in cloud computing is
to
deliver a platform for businesses and for cloud providers that
integrates the best technology available on which to build
open-source
cloud environments. OpenStack is critical to that goal and I know
that
there is huge anticipation in our user base to start exploring the
capabilities of OpenStack on the best OS for the cloud, which is
Ubuntu."
</p><p>
“Open source plays an important role in cloud computing, and
Cisco’s
membership in the OpenStack community reflects our focus on
helping to
advance this technology,” said Lew Tucker, vice president and
chief
technology officer, Cloud Computing, Cisco. “Cisco takes a systems
approach to cloud computing for its customers and holds a
commitment to
open standards and industry collaboration. For many of our
customers and
partners, open-source solutions such as OpenStack provide an
alternative
approach to architect and deploy cloud solutions.”
</p><p>
<b>About OpenStack™</b>
</p><p>
OpenStack is a large-scale open source cloud project and community
established to drive industry standards, end cloud lock-in and
speed the
adoption of cloud technologies by service providers and
enterprises. The
project currently includes OpenStack Object Storage, a fully
distributed
object store, and OpenStack Compute, a scalable compute
provisioning
engine. OpenStack was founded by Rackspace® Hosting through its
wholly
owned subsidiary, OpenStack, LLC, and has the support of more than
50
participating companies and over 1,000 project participants. For
more
information and to join the community, visit <a href="http://OpenStack.org">OpenStack.org</a>.
</p><p>
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OpenStack project may not materialize because the underlying
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there
are changes in technology that adversely affect the adoption of
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