Development by Davis: “Open source private cloud storage with OpenStack Swift” plus 1 more

Open source private cloud storage with OpenStack Swift

Posted: 01 Jul 2013 02:00 AM PDT

Everyone has data. It's always growing, and you should have ownership of everything that touches your data. You need to have the ability to see and make changes to the code managing your storage system. Having ownership of your data gives you control of your own destiny.

All this started with web apps: companies were embracing the web as a new way to easily deliver software to a massive audience and looking for scalable infrastructure on which to build their applications. So, in 2009, Rackspace Hosting launched a product to give application developers access to flexible, scalable storage built to serve content at a massive scale.

Driving better governance with open source

Posted: 01 Jul 2013 12:00 AM PDT

open source governance and collaborative risk

"Ten years ago, open source—notably Linux—was often labelled a 'fad' or destined for the 'hobbyist' market," said Mark Bohannon, Vice President for Corporate Affairs & Global Public Policy at Red Hat.

"Fast forward to today. Owing not only to the benefits of the technology, but also to the benefits of the collaborative innovation model, open source software has by any measure become mainstream and vital to enterprise and government IT architecture."

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