Open cloud company
Rackspace has launched a number of new features in its Rackspace Private Cloud Software. Powered by OpenStack® and pushing Rackspace services into private enterprise cloud arena, Rackspace Private Cloud Software is free, open source software designed for scalable private cloud deployment using a company's own datacenter.
Rackspace Private Cloud Software combines OpenStack community ‘trunk’ code, tools provided by Rackspace, and a range of solutions provided by the company's Technology Alliance Program partners, each validated and certified by Rackspace engineers. The new software features include OpenCenter, a graphical user interface and API designed to allow users to deploy, configure and manage scalable private clouds. The software now also enables users to choose between host operating systems (Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS) when deploying private clouds.
Rackspace Private Cloud Software is free of charge and available from the company's
website. Since its launch in August 2012 around 100 organizations, including 22% of Fortune 100 companies, have received Rackspace training and support on OpenStack-based private clouds. The company pushed 1,375 code releases for the software and conducted over 8,400 unit tests. It has received 465 million API requests for cloud servers since inception.
San Antonio, Texas-based Rackspace Hosting caters to 205,000 customers worldwide and offers a range of services including public cloud, private cloud, hybrid hosting and dedicated hosting.
