OpenStack is here to stay

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Berkeley, Cambridge, Melbourne, Pittsburgh, and Toronto have something in common. The university in these places invested in OpenStack the only stable and reliable open-source distributed environment. That is saving infrastructure costs. They all use it for academic record keeping, hosting research applications, class learning, delivery online, IT infrastructure management, and students and faculty access to a single cloud thereby gaining a return on investment on the IT costs. 

What is OpenStack?

As the name suggests it is a stack of open software that the customers can plug in and pay without any cost rather than the power of the internet.

How did OpenStack start?

To make the cloud affordable to common users, NASA first standardized its websites. Then the same was extended by other services for other organizations. The way it worked is based on the power and storage. Cloud computing is powerful as long as the subscriptions are active on its usage. The inherent nature of having pooled open source codes would make more consumers share their best practices.

Extending OpenStack further, IT is anticipated to implement the necessary changes to existing devices that are not constantly in use, enabling them to share their resources with others when available.

Research continuum

Once the open source software was used for base infrastructure, the researchers started contributing back to the OpenStack in these universities.