Locked. It’s just not a good feeling.
Nobody likes being locked out. Locked out of their home, locked out of their car, locked out of their corporate network. It feels helpless.
Nobody likes being locked in either. Locked into a contract, locked into a relationship, locked in by a proprietary network operating system or a particular platform. Can’t take advantage of great new developments from other platform companies. It feels helpless.
Open For Business
This is why more and more IT professionals are adopting an open source environment, including OpenStack. You’re seldom locked out and never locked in.
#OpenStack was created to respond to the needs of the emerging cloud-computing environment. Armed with a new level of flexibility, OpenStack users find efficiency in migrating workloads to their own clouds and driving the best possible performance from them.
One of the greatest needs of OpenStack users is increasingly responsive and flexible storage designed specifically for the cloud. With upstream support from companies such as #RedHat, these solutions are driven to support block, file, object, and other emerging data structures. They must respond to the scalability requirements of an exploding world of “ #bigdata ” and be flexible enough to support the intricacies of an ever more interactive Internet of Things. And in the spirit of OpenStack, they must also be open.
OpenStack projects with open, software-defined storage enjoy participation from most every corner of the IT world. Software developers, platform providers, hardware manufacturers, and academia are all happily contributing to the development of open standards, open source, and the OpenStack movement.
OpenStack’s popularity can also be directly attributed to the advance of the Internet of Things. As we move from 4.3 billion addressable devices in IPv4 addressing to 32 undecillion in IPv6, the requirement that everything be fully interoperable becomes not only critical, it becomes essential. With operating and interconnectivity standards developed by the OpenStack community, the ability to become fully interoperable is all but guaranteed.
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