16 Apr
2011
16 Apr
'11
1:30 a.m.
OpenStack Enthusiast: 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 Bexar¹ 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. ³OpenStack 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,² said Lew Tucker, Cisco CTO for Cloud Computing. ³As a strong supporter of OpenStack, we believe that cloud consumers should have choice,² said Ewan Mellor, Director, OpenStack Engineering, Datacenter and Cloud Division, Citrix and elected member of the OpenStack Project Policy Board. ³We 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.² More information on Cactus: * OpenStack Blog - http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/04/openstack-announces-cactus-release/ * OpenStack Press Release - http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20110415005748/en/OpenStack/cloud-compu ting/open-cloud * OpenStack Webinar Tuesday April 19th at 3:00 pm CST (http://connect33143669.adobeconnect.com/cactus/) > * Webinar will be taped and made available for viewing from OpenStack.org > website To obtain Cactus: * Nova 2011.2: https://launchpad.net/nova/cactus/2011.2 * Glance 2011.2:https://launchpad.net/glance/cactus/2011.2 * Swift 1.3.0: https://launchpad.net/swift/1.3/1.3.0 * Release Notes: http://wiki.openstack.org/ReleaseNotes/Cactus Thank you, - - - Stephen Spector, Rackspace OpenStack Community Manager stephen.spector@openstack.org OpenStack Blog <http://openstack.org/blog> | @opnstk_ <http://twitter.com/opnstk_com_mgr> com <http://twitter.com/opnstk_com_mgr> _mgr <http://twitter.com/opnstk_com_mgr> Office +1 (512) 539-1162 | Mobile +1 (210) 415-0930