<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div>OpenStack Enthusiast:</div><div><br></div><div>I am pleased to announce the third release from the OpenStack community, Cactus. Much of the development and documentation efforts were spent
improving existing features, extending the API and adding support for
popular enterprise technologies to enable enterprises and service
providers to deploy OpenStack clouds with greater scale and performance. In just 10 weeks since the ‘Bexar’
release, more than 4,700 code commits and 40 new features were added to
the Cactus release from developers at organizations including Canonical,
Citrix, FathomDB, Grid Dynamics, NTT Group and Rackspace.
</div><div><br></div><div>“OpenStack provides a solid
software foundation for computing at scale and we are very excited about
the advancements we are working on with the community to deliver next
generation cloud networking,” said Lew Tucker, Cisco CTO for Cloud
Computing. </div><div><br></div><div>“As a strong supporter of OpenStack, we believe that cloud consumers
should have choice,” said Ewan Mellor, Director, OpenStack Engineering,
Datacenter and Cloud Division, Citrix and elected member of the
OpenStack Project Policy Board. “We added support for VMware vSphere to
allow enterprises and services providers deploying OpenStack the
flexibility to integrate with legacy technologies and take control of
their cloud strategy.” </div><div><br></div><div>More information on Cactus:</div><ul><li>OpenStack Blog - <a href="http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/openstack-announces-cactus-release">http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/openstack-announces-cactus-release</a>/</li><li>OpenStack Press Release - <a href="http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20110415005748/en/OpenStack/cloud-computing/open-cloud">http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20110415005748/en/OpenStack/cloud-computing/open-cloud</a> </li><li>OpenStack Webinar – Tuesday April 19th at 3:00 pm CST (<a href="http://connect33143669.adobeconnect.com/cactus">http://connect33143669.adobeconnect.com/cactus</a>/)</li><ul><li>Webinar will be taped and made available for viewing from OpenStack.org website </li></ul></ul><div>To obtain Cactus:</div><ul><li>Nova 2011.2: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; "><a rel="nofollow" href="https://launchpad.net/nova/cactus/2011.2">https://launchpad.net/nova/cactus/2011.2</a></span></li><li>Glance 2011.2:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; "><a rel="nofollow" href="https://launchpad.net/glance/cactus/2011.2">https://launchpad.net/glance/cactus/2011.2</a></span></li><li>Swift 1.3.0: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; "> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://launchpad.net/swift/1.3/1.3.0">https://launchpad.net/swift/1.3/1.3.0</a></span></li><li>Release Notes: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; "><a rel="nofollow" href="http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/Cactus">http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/Cactus</a></span></li></ul><div>Thank you,</div><div><br></div><div><div>- - - </div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Stephen Spector, Rackspace</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">OpenStack Community Manager</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"></font></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "><a href="mailto:stephen.spector@openstack.org">stephen.spector@openstack.org</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "><a href="http://openstack.org/blog">OpenStack Blog</a><b> | </b><a href="http://twitter.com/opnstk_com_mgr">@opnstk_</a><a href="http://twitter.com/opnstk_com_mgr">com</a><a href="http://twitter.com/opnstk_com_mgr">_mgr</a><span style="font-style: italic"></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; "><b>Office</b> +1 (512) 539-1162 | <b>Mobile</b> +1 (210) 415-0930</span></div></div></div></div></body></html>