OpenStack is designed to give users control of all aspects of data in a cloud environment through one dashboard.

The typical analogy is that OpenStack gives you public cloud-like capabilities in your datacenter.” Red Hat defines OpenStack this way: “OpenStack is an open source project for building a private or public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud running on standard hardware.

We support the OpenStack ecosystem through software development and community engagement and are excited to continue advancing these technologies with the community through RDO and for our enterprise customers with advancements with our Red Hat OpenStack distribution today.” “OpenStack represents an ideal example of community-powered innovation in the cloud, and Red Hat is committed to bringing a community-to-subscription model around the OpenStack technology that aims to redefine IT. “So these are going to be based on nomination and invitation from our sales force, and we are actually augmenting sales capacity as well as technical capacity around OpenStack in our sales force as we speak.”

“So we want to engage north of 100 customers worldwide around Red Hat OpenStack bits based on Folsom release starting today,” Balakrishnan said in a conference call.