OpenStack Summit Emphasizes Emerging Deployment Models

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The OpenStack Summit kicked off here today with multiple announcements and an emphasis on the evolution of the cloud deployment model. 

Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, said during his keynote that there has been a 44 percent year-over-year increase in the volume of OpenStack deployments, with OpenStack now running on more than 5 million compute cores around the world.

Although OpenStack has had success, the path has not been a straight line upward since NASA and Rackspace first started the project in June 2010.

“We’re now at a major inflection point in the cloud,” Bryce said.

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