OpenStack has grown to become the world's most used open source cloud platform. As one of the three most actively developed open source projects on the planet, it brings together thousands of developers from over 180 countries.
Open source and open standards are a key factor for success and a natural choice for many of the world's leading digital companies. If you are still considering the advantages of OpenStack, here are some reasons why you should also benefit from the platform.
At Binero, we are passionate about transparency and flexibility. That's why we have built a high-performance, scalable cloud service based on OpenStack. Through open source and open APIs, OpenStack contributes to a common, open standard that allows you as a customer to move between different cloud environments. In other words, you don't have to be tied to the technology of specific providers.
OpenStack is built by a group of developers from many different companies, from all corners of the world. Companies that are usually competitors in the market work together in a community to find the best common solution for their customers. This means you do not have to be in the hands of a single supplier and completely dependent on the supplier's decisions. When people work and develop together, it also leads to shared knowledge and better solutions!
New ideas flourish, interested developers contribute, and when the feature or service is mature, it is released as part of an OpenStack release. The speed at which ideas are transformed into mature code is impressive. You don't have to wait for bureaucratic and slow corporate decisions - this is software development in its purest form!
The code is reviewed by several experienced developers, and the fact that the code is public makes it much safer. All backdoors, spyware and other forms of vulnerabilities can be quickly detected. In proprietary software companies, code review is instead limited to a limited number of employees, and it therefore takes longer to detect security vulnerabilities.
Since the software is developed and maintained by many companies, it gives you the freedom to choose who you want to work with. You are not locked into a solution just because your supplier is the only supplier that supports it.
OpenStack offers everything you need for a cloud infrastructure. The same software meets the needs of everything from small start-ups to large global organisations. You can create and manage your virtual infrastructure with advanced functionality and capacity. You can provide virtual machines, virtual storage blocks, virtual networks connecting them, virtual load balancers, virtual routers... All this with the help of an open API that lets you automate the whole process. And if you don't want to automate, just use the GUI, the user interface, to do exactly what you want.
