Cloud to go open-source
One of the world’s largest cloud providers is to go open-source in a move that could eventually have a big impact on business processes and security.
According to Rackspace, the second largest cloud provider on the planet, opening up their source code could help quell security fears over cloud technology.
The company also hopes that by making the code for their new “Openstack” platform freely available they can accelerate its development and in the long-term grow the cloud market.
The code for “Openstack” was developed in partnership with NASA and will now go head-to-head with competing platforms such as Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).