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(Austin, Texas) At the recently concluded Austin OpenStack Summit, EasyStack was announced by the OpenStack Foundation’s Board of Directors to have been elected as the Foundation’s newest Gold Member. This is not only a major decision by the Foundation, but also a statement to the rapid strengthening of OpenStack in China, during which EasyStack has become one of the second batch of Chinese companies since Huawei to achieve Gold Member status.
In terms of community contribution, EasyStack was outstanding in the Mitaka Release – achieving top-10 ranking worldwide in core project code contribution; being one of only two startups and one of only two Chinese companies in that list. Its contribution to other projects have also been tremendous, acquiring top rankings worldwide while holding the top spot among Chinese startups.
EasyStack has been dedicated to providing open, stable, reliable and high-performance cloud computing services to enterprise clients since its establishment in 2014. To date, EasyStack has provided OpenStack cloud product and services to over 100 enterprise clients including Lenovo, the Postal Savings Bank of China, the Rural Credit Banks Funds Clearing Center, SF Express, the State Grid Corporation, Tsinghua University, Greatwall Broadband Networks, TCL, and Tianhe Cloud, covering traditional industries such as Finance, Telecom, Government, Energy & Utilities, Education, and emerging industries including e-Finances and e-Commerce and Big Data & Analytics, is a leading practitioner in enterprise-level OpenStack in China.
EasyStack is also an avid Chinese OpenStack technology promoter, sponsoring www.openstack.cn since its establishment, developing its official WeChat subscriber account to one of the most popular and recognized hub of information among Chinese OpenStackers to acquire timely industry, technology update, case studies and activities. Through www.openstack.cn, EasyStack has hosted and participated over ten OpenStack technical summits and industry events in over ten Chinese cities, reaching ten thousand people in primary audience.
“EasyStack has always been an active and abiding member of the community, while productizing open sourced OpenStack technologies according to client needs, massively lowering the enterprise client’s adoption requirement,” says EasyStack Founder and CEO Mr. Chen Xilun:”The OpenStack Foundation’s conferment of the Gold Member status is a recognition of EasyStack’s contribution to the Community, its products, clients and subsequent achievement. We will further increase our investment to the community to strengthen ecosystem buildup, and further drive OpenStack adoption at the enterprise level in the Asia-Pacific region, help clients of all industries to succeed in business transformation and innovation.
“Currently China has become the second-largest area of OpenStack implementation in the world, and it’s growing at 50% per year to become the second-largest market worldwide. To our delight, we see that as the leading professional OpenStack vendor in China, EasyStack serviced the earliest enterprise adopters of OpenStack, and achieved tenfold growth in revenue. At the same time, EasyStack achieved top-10 ranking worldwide in TC-approved in core projects. The Gold Member status mirrors EasyStack’s achievement in community participation and business success.” Says Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, OpenStack Foundation.
At the Austin OpenStack Summit, EasyStack built on its momentum, presenting use cases from heavyweight enterprise clients Lenovo and the State Grid Corporation. Also making an appearance was the container implementation service ESCaaS 2.0 Demo, meeting the over seven thousand OpenStackers attending the Summit.
About the OpenStack Gold Member Status
There’s only 24 Gold Member seats in the OpenStack Foundation, eight of which will be elected to enter the Foundation’s Board of Directors to represent all Gold Members, having greater right of voice and responsibility in OpenStack’s direction of development
At the present, besides EasyStack, other OpenStack Foundation Gold Members include Aptira, CCAT, Cisco, Dell, DreamHost, EMC, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Huawei, inwinStack, Juniper, Mirantis, NEC, NetApp, Odin, Symantec and Yahoo, etc.
About EasyStack
EasyStack (EasyStack Inc.) is a leading OpenStack cloud platform and services provider. Founded in February of 2014 by members of the core team at the IBM China Development Lab that pioneered OpenStack research and development in China, EasyStack strives to provide to enterprise clients high-performing open, stable and reliable OpenStack-based cloud computing services. Since its founding, EasyStack has provided OpenStack cloud solution and services to over 100 enterprises including Lenovo, the Postal Savings Bank of China，the Rural Credit Banks Funds Clearing Center, the State Grid Corporation, SF Express, Tsinghua University, Greatwall Broadband Networks, TCL, and Tianhe Cloud, etc, covering traditional industries including Finance, Telecom, Government, Energy & Utilities, Education, and emerging industries such as e-Finances, e-Commerce and Big Data & Analytics, is a leading practitioner in enterprise-level OpenStack in China.
