Lew Tucker, VP & CTO, Cloud Computing of Cisco in 2012 In August 2012, SUSE announced its commercially supported enterprise OpenStack distribution based on the 'Essex' release. In October 2011, SUSE announced the public preview of the industry's first fully configured OpenStack powered appliance based on the 'Diablo' OpenStack release. OpenStack became available in Debian Sid from the Openstack 'Cactus' release in 2011, and the first release of Debian including OpenStack was Debian 7.0 (code name 'Wheezy'), including OpenStack 2012.1 (code name: 'Essex'). Ubuntu's sponsor Canonical then introduced full support for OpenStack clouds, starting with OpenStack's Cactus release. In 2011, developers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution adopted OpenStack with an unsupported technology preview of the OpenStack 'Bexar' release for Ubuntu 11.04 ' Natty Narwhal'. The cloud stack and open stack modules were merged and released as open source by the NASA Nebula team in concert with Rackspace. The early code came from NASA's Nebula platform as well as from Rackspace's Cloud Files platform. The community's first official release, code-named Austin, appeared three months later on 21 October 2010 ( ), with plans to release regular updates of the software every few months. The project intended to help organizations offer cloud-computing services running on standard hardware.

The mission statement was 'to produce the ubiquitous Open Source Cloud Computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private clouds regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable'. In July 2010, Rackspace Hosting and NASA announced an open-source cloud-software initiative known as OpenStack. In 2020 the foundation announced it would be renamed the Open Infrastructure Foundation in 2021. By 2018, more than 500 companies had joined the project. As of 2012, it was managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity established in September 2012 to promote OpenStack software and its community. OpenStack began in 2010 as a joint project of Rackspace Hosting and NASA. Users manage it either through a web-based dashboard, through command-line tools, or through RESTful web services. The software platform consists of interrelated components that control diverse, multi-vendor hardware pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. It is mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in both public and private clouds where virtual servers and other resources are made available to users. OpenStack is a free, open standard cloud computing platform.

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