Enterprise companies and startups alike continue to throw their support behind the open source cloud platform OpenStack, evidenced by the slew of announcements coming out of this week's OpenStack Grizzly Summit in Portland, Ore. Among companies touting their latest OpenStack endeavors today are CloudBase, CloudByte, CloudScaling, Hewlett-Packard, Midokura, NetApp, and Piston Cloud Computing.
OpenStack officially launched on July 18, 2010, and has enjoyed soaring popularity at larger enterprise vendors seeking quick entry to the cloud computing market, including HP, Dell, IBM, and Oracle. Small companies, meanwhile, have tapped OpenStack as a way to get products and services to market using an existing code base. The latest version of OpenStack, dubbed Grizzly, arrived earlier this month, adding support for EMC VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors, increased scalability, and new block storage options.
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