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OpenStack is changing the dynamics of how we buy and consume IT . Usman Chaudhry , offering manager UK & I – integrated systems , Fujitsu , explains what the industry needs to understand for it to work .
Every major IT vendor in the world today is involved in OpenStack . An open source software for creating a cloud platform that enables organisations and IT functions to offer anything ‘ as-a-service ’. Predominantly Infrastructure-as-a-Service but this lays the foundation for building Software-as-a-Service and Platformas-a-Service on top .
It is basically a library of software modules written in Python with APIs into multiple other programming languages which can then be deployed directly onto commodity hardware , enriching it with features and functionality . It brings to life the promise of delivering a software defined data centre by moving all the intelligence of the hardware to the application layer which means organisations are no longer bound by proprietary features embedded in the infrastructure hardware . Essentially , this means organisations from across
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