Soon, the OpenStack Object Storage software will be released. It’s available now as a Developer Preview if you would like to contribute, or perhaps if you’re just curious. The first release is expected later this month. This is a fantastic piece of software that really hits the mark for scalability, high availability, and performance. About [...]

Today Rackspace and NASA announced OpenStack as a coordinated open development project with 28 participating partner companies and growing. NASA contributed source code from its NOVA project for running a large scale computing platform called Nebula. Rackspace contributed source code for its Object Store, used to host the Cloud Files web storage service. The API [...]