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The Linux Foundation releases open cloud report

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EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND: The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux and collaborative development, has released a new report "Understanding the Open Cloud: Open Cloud Projects Profiled."

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The paper is being released today at the first-ever CloudOpen Europe where it will be discussed and from which input will be gathered to inform future updates to the paper.

CloudOpen was originally hosted in North America in 2012 and brings together all of the open source projects supporting the cloud in one place where developers, users and vendors can learn more about them and understand how best to collaborate.

Cloud computing, like Linux, is fueling dramatic enterprise innovation and growth, which in turn is spurring a worldwide transformation of the technology space. As a result, there are many open source projects emerging to support the cloud and more being created every day.

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The Linux Foundation's new report aims to help users and developers understand the open cloud ecosystem, including what is the open cloud, what are the projects that comprise it and how to get involved.

The paper is not intended to be a comprehensive survey of all potentially related projects; rather, it is a starting point from which users can begin to assess the building blocks for an open cloud. T

"We receive a lot of questions from users and developers about the increasing number of open source projects that are supporting the cloud. We hope this paper can be helpful to those users who are currently assessing their cloud computing strategies and looking to build upon Linux and open source technologies to accelerate that work," said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation.

 

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