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  <title>OpenStack Overview</title>
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      The OpenStack community is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. The project aims to deliver feature-rich solutions for all types of clouds by being simple to implement yet massively scalable. The technology consists of a series of related projects delivering various components for a cloud infrastructure solution.
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      OpenStack implements services for establishing infrastructure-as-a-service released under the Apache 2.0 open source license. The project is managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a nonprofit corporate entity established in September 2012 that promotes, protects, and empowers OpenStack software and its community.
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      This technology consists of a series of modular projects that control large pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center, all managed through a single dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering users to provision resources in a self-service fashion.
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      OpenStack is committed to an open design and development process. The community operates around a six-month, time-based release cycle with frequent development milestones. For additional information, refer to <link xlink:href="http://www.openstack.org">http://www.openstack.org</link>.
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      OpenStack is available to be deployed on all major <trademark class="registered">Linux</trademark> platforms. For additional information, refer to <link xlink:href="http://wiki.openstack.org/GetOpenStack">http://wiki.openstack.org/GetOpenStack</link>.
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