What is OpenStack

Canonical

on 8 October 2012

Tags: OpenStack

This article was last updated 8 years ago.

Everyone’s talking about OpenStack.

And it’s no great surprise. Over 150 key players in open source technology have come together to create the place where the open source cloud will be delivered.

It is:

  • Infrastructure as a service
  • A platform to deploy services
  • The world’s highest profile open source project
  • A huge source of enterprise action
  • An ecosystem for driving cloud innovation

And a whole lot more…

Smart operations, optimal architecture, better pricing.

OpenStack and Ubuntu bring automated deployment and management that help you optimize infrastructure costs — no matter your industry or use case.

Learn about Canonical OpenStack ›

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