Hey all,<div><br></div><div>Todays Commsday had an article about 'OpenStack', the new open-source Cloud Operating system (article below). Tonight the Openstack Users group is having a meeting in Sydney, and all are welcome.</div>
<div><br></div><div><span style>Australian Users Group for OpenStack (</span><a href="http://aosug.openstack.org.au/" target="_blank" style>http://aosug.openstack.org.au</a><font color="#222222" face="Tahoma, sans-serif" style>)</font></div>
<div><div style><font color="#222222" face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style><font color="#222222" face="Tahoma, sans-serif">Tonights event details are at: h</font><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">ttp://<a href="http://aosug.openstack.org.au/events/49679462/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">aosug.openstack.org.au/events/49679462/</a></span></div>
</div><div><br></div><div>About Openstack - <span style>From the Website: </span><a href="http://openstack.org/" target="_blank" style>http://openstack.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you are in hosting, knowing what is happening with Openstack is a must. Huge names are already involved and sponsoring the movement - Dell, F5, Citrix, Cisco, Rackspace, Riverbed, HP, Brocade, Arista, NEC, Akamai, SuSE and sooo many more - check out: <a href="http://openstack.org/community/companies/">http://openstack.org/community/companies/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>If you are in the IT Media and want to come along, please come and identify yourself to one of the organisers if you want to ask any questions.</div><div><br></div><div>See you there all.</div><div><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>--------</div><div><div style>New cloud technology takes aim at VMware </div><div style><br></div><div style>A NASA-developed technology is shaping up as the “de facto cloud computing standard operating system,” according to the founder of a new Australian tech user group. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style> The Australian Users Group for OpenStack has been formed to raise awareness around the technology, which was first released two years ago. The compute aspect of OpenStack was developed by NASA in an effort to provide in-house cloud computing facilities across US government departments; RackSpace, for its part, had developed a model to enable massive scalable storage across hardware. The two entities eventually came together to release the offering as an open sourced product. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style> Local group founder and Aptira MD Tristan Goode told CommsDay that despite successful deployments overseas, Australian corporations had been slow to get onto the technology. “Paradoxically, we have the biggest OpenStack deployment on the planet – the NeCTAR project driven by the University of Melbourne, which is a massively scalable compute resource for their group computing departments that willbe spread out across six universities across the country… but there’s not a lot of coverage of this in the Aussie media,” he said. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style> Despite its lack of publicity, Goode said that OpenStack was shaping up as “the de facto cloud computing standard operating system” – and a direct competitor to VMware. “And because it’s open sourced people are looking at… their VMware [deployments] and thinking ‘well we’re spending a lot of money on this, why don’t we have a look at this stuff?’” he added. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style> The OpenStack technology is suited to both the corporate/enterprise and residential markets, according to Goode. “If you want your data stored on seven different nodes across three different locations, it’s quite scalable and resilient like that. We’re looking at the corporate market with our offering as using that for backup. At the moment it’s not ready for prime-time in putting critical stuff on but it will develop to that. But we see this as being a critical technology infrastructure of the future and we’re betting the farm on it.” </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>David Edward</div></div><div>----</div><div><br></div><div>Gratefully re-posted from Commsday.</div><div><br clear="all"><br><div><div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:14px">
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