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It was in the Austin Convention center that OpenStack was first announced in July 2010 by the Rackspace marketing team.

It was in the Austin Convention center that OpenStack was first announced in July 2010 by the Rackspace marketing team. The OpenStack project was started to help organizations build cloud-computing services leveraging standard hardware. The community's first official release appeared four months later. In 2011, developers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution adopted OpenStack. Ubuntu's sponsor Canonical then introduced full support for OpenStack clouds.\n\nIn the years to come, OpenStack would become the biggest open source initiative since Linux, supported by a fast-growing community. A recent major breakthrough came in August 2015, when Platform9 announced that its OpenStack distribution was fully interoperable with VMware vSphere.

Join us for - and participate in - an exciting panel with Canonical's Marc Shuttleworth, Scality's Jerome Lecat, Matthew Curley from HPE and Steve Muir from Comcast, moderated by Ashish Nadkarni from IDC. The panelists will give their views on the past and future of OpenStack: what have we achieved so far, where are we going and most importantly, how will users benefit from the community's efforts?

The OpenStack project was started to help organizations build cloud-computing services leveraging standard hardware. The community's first official release appeared four months later. In 2011, developers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution adopted OpenStack. Ubuntu's sponsor Canonical then introduced full support for OpenStack clouds.

In the years to come, OpenStack would become the biggest open source initiative since Linux, supported by a fast-growing community. A recent major breakthrough came in August 2015, when Platform9 announced that its OpenStack distribution was fully interoperable with VMware vSphere.

Join us for - and participate in - an exciting panel with Canonical's Marc Shuttleworth, Scality's Jerome Lecat, Matthew Curley from HPE and Steve Muir from Comcast, moderated by Ashish Nadkarni from IDC. The panelists will give their views on the past and future of OpenStack: what have we achieved so far, where are we going and most importantly, how will users benefit from the community's efforts?