Removing these obstacles will enable companies to deploy more highly optimized and scalable cloud infrastructure that delivers new services more efficiently.
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Rackspace and Intel have joined forces to accelerate the technical maturity and reliability of the OpenStack platform through the creation of an innovation centre in San Antonio, Texas.
Engineers from Intel and Rackspace will work together in what is part of a broader approach from Intel called the Cloud for All initiative.
Rackspace said that ultimately it wants the OpenStack Innovation Center to be home to the world’s largest collection of OpenStack developers.
In an official press release, Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) revealed its cloud for all initiative, in a bid to push overall cloud growth.
Intel will make a series of investments and collaborations in the cloud software ecosystem as part of this program.
According to the companies, the mission goal is this: “Accelerate the development of enterprise capabilities and significantly add to the number of developers contributing to upstream OpenStack code”.
OpenStack, which this week celebrated its fifth anniversary, was founded by a few engineers from Rackspace and NASA but has since swelled to more than 520 member companies and 27,000 individual contributors globally. The center will focus on driving enterprise features and scale optimizations into the OpenStack source code.
“This transition to cloud is actually not happening fast enough”, she said. To date, Rackspace and Intel will be creating the largest combined developer team to accelerate the development and validation of OpenStack applications for their joint customer base. The company estimates that half of the world’s applications run on cloud infrastructure now and expects 85 percent of them to run in the cloud by 2020, Diane Bryant, senior VP and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group, said. While Intel has been elusive about their investment dollars, we can be assured they will backstop it with investment in their channel through partner onboarding which includes Market Development Funds (MDF) to support activities with existing partners and additional partnerships with Systems Integrators, Brokers, and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). Except as required by law, Rackspace Hosting assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.
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Aligning the industry and engaging the community through open industry standards, solutions and routes to market to accelerate cloud deployment. “The depth of experience and community engagement that Rackspace and Intel offer makes this an exciting project, as the code contributions and large-scale testing will benefit everyone who uses OpenStack”. It will also be important for Intel to include Windriver and other embedded technologies, especially security solutions, into the conversation.
