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What do Rackspace & NASA have in common?

If you have been riding on the cloud bandwagon lately, it wouldn’t be surprising to hear about OpenStack.

Building a hyperscale cloud might not have been easy in the past but lately with softwares like OpenStack they aren’t rocket science either.

Have a look…

http://www.openstack.org/

Lately a new project has spawed from no other than Dell, its called Crowbar. It makes it ever more easier to deploy the OpenStack Nova, all the way from bare metal to network boot, discover, allocate & up n running a compute node, all thanks to the build in Chef Client/Server architecture (http://www.opscode.com/chef/)

A good place to start looking at Dell Crowbar would be the lead architect Rob Hirschfeld’s blog

http://robhirschfeld.com/