Publication: Network World, 9 Jan 2012
On the operations side, both open source and proprietary software solutions have already begun to hit the streets. Work under the open source OpenStack initiative launched by Rackspace Hosting and NASA in July of 2010, has resulted in software and standards for large-scale deployments of automatically provisioned virtual compute instances applicable in a cloud federation environment. The OpenStack project aims to enable any organization to create and offer cloud computing services running on standard hardware. CA offers a proprietary, turnkey system called 3Tera AppLogic that converts arrays of servers into virtualized resource pools.
