On the afternoon of July 20, a simple party with warm atmosphere was held at UnitedStack company’s office, located at Haidian district, Beijing Zhongguancun Software Park. This was an elaborate mini-celebration to celebrate the fifth anniversary of launching OpenStack open source project. Nearly 100 staff in UnitedStack’s Beijing office,- celebrated this milestone moment together.
UnitedStack, an OpenStack open source cloud computing company founded in February 2013, gained rapid development over the past 2 years. It grew from an original team of 8 engineers into a specialized open source cloud innovative company with more than 100 staff, which focused in “translating open source technologies into commercial successes, facing various industry markets”.
Now, let’s review the scene of OpenStack’s birthday party!
Amazingly, Cheng Hui, UnitedStack’s founder & CEO, also received a hand-woven present from an OpenStack’s fan, which expressed the blessing to the fifth anniversary of OpenStack.
At the celebration, several UnitedStack’s engineers who were active in the OpenStack community expressed their personal feelings such as follows:
“OpenStack is an unfamiliar thing for Chinese developer s in 2011. After 4 year’s development, OpenStack has grown from a small project into the open source software appealing to major companies to pay attention and make investment. I have been fortunate to participate in a lot of community development work, understand deeply the great changes during this period and feel strongly that I am participating in an amazing project. I sincerely hope we can work with developers coming from all around the world and continue to drive OpenStack project growing.”
--Yu Xingchao, DevOps/Infrastructure division director of UnitedStack & core developer of Puppet-OpenStack community
”Openness and cooperation is the deepest my personal feelings during participating in OpenStack community. The openness of OpenStack is reflected that it allow anyone to participate in community development in any form and anyone can choose the project which they are interested in to participate in. The greatest charm of community is that it can embrace changes. For example, OpenStack shows admirable courage during KeyStone project is undergoing changes.”
--Shao Guojian, platform development division director of UnitedStack
“The spirit of openness and collaboration of OpenStack community matched well with entrepreneurial spirit of UnitedStack. OpenStack as a new development and operation model of cloud software continued to bring new thinking to engineers.”
--Ma Xiao, SDN networking division director of UnitedStack
Cheng Hui, founder and CEO of UnitedStack
The experience that Cheng Hui, founder and CEO of UnitedStack, shared with us included inspiration. He said:
“We indeed have the ability to build an open source project-based cloud service quickly. This feeling is very cool. But in fact, maybe we don’t know much about this service yet. In reality, to build products based on an open source project, we must really ‘own’ this open source project or have the ability to build similar projects. If there is no such a spirit of ‘own’, we will never build cloud services based on open source projects which can make customer satisfaction, can't promise customer to give them high-quality services, and can't ensure customer satisfaction. Because there is information blind spot in this model, what we need to do is to eliminate the blind spot.”
Since UnitedStack gained the first batch of customers in September 2014, its cloud service highly has praised by its customers in various industries including internet, energy, finance and manufacture. In Chinese market, UnitedStack is the first company which offers highly reliable OpenStack-based platform UOS providing the same area nodes of public cloud and managed private cloud. UOS was integrated with core technologies and capabilities of IaaS, such as elastic computing, distributed block storage and Software Defined Network (SDN), etc. Moreover, it also owned a lot of unique functions, such as second-level deployment and online migration, bringing the new generation of security, reliable and high performance infrastructure cloud environment to Chinese cloud computing market.
2015-08-05 09:52:00