Ubuntu Cloud and OpenStack
OpenStack is an Apache-licensed cloud computing platform. It was founded as a collaboration between NASA and Rackspace. After less than a year, it boasted a worldwide community of developers. Adoption has been swift, and already many large corporations, universities, and institutions are using OpenStack for cloud computing. Ubuntu and OpenStack have worked closely together for a long time, have similar release schedules, and Ubuntu is the reference operating system for OpenStack. As of August 2014, it was reported that 55% of OpenStack production clouds run on Ubuntu (source: https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/08/18/ubuntu-openstack-the-natural-choice-for-telcos-and-service-providers/).
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