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Rackspace and IT company Intel have partnered on the development of enterprise features for OpenStack. The collaboration will culminate in the opening of the OpenStack Innovation Center – a “center of excellence” designed to facilitate an increase in the number of developers that contribute to OpenStack and to enhance the solution’s enterprise capabilities. Engineers from both companies will be involved in the project, which will be based at Rackspace’s San Antonio, Texas-based headquarters in the United States.
The collaboration between the two companies will see the launch of the “world’s largest OpenStack development team” and the launch of courseware for Open Source developers that are actively contributing to the OpenStack project. The project will be run with the involvement of the OpenStack Enterprise Work Group and the OpenStack community, and new engineers will be hired specifically for the activity. The project will also establish the largest OpenStack Developer Cloud which Rackspace and Intel will develop. It will include two 1,000 node clusters which the OpenStack community can use to test and develop new features.
“This announcement demonstrates our continued support and commitment to open source projects,” explained Intel’s Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud Platforms Group, Jason Waxman. “Our ongoing collaboration with Rackspace and the OpenStack community represents an ideal opportunity to accelerate the enterprise appeal of OpenStack.”
“We are excited to collaborate with Intel and look forward to working with the OpenStack community to make the world’s leading open-source cloud operating system even stronger,” added Rackspace’s Senior Vice President of Product and Strategy, Scott Crenshaw. “We don’t believe in creating proprietary OpenStack distributions. Rackspace delivers its customers four-nines availability using entirely upstream trunk code. All of the Innovation Center’s contributions will be made available freely, to everyone.”
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