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 ‘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.

“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.     

“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.”     

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Thank you,