They came, they saw, they conquered. Six years ago it was 75 attendees and a bunch of servers in a pickup truck (this is Texas after all). This year, 7,500 descended on my adopted city to revel in the fact that OpenStack is finally growing up. For those of you not in the know, OpenStack is an open source alternative to public cloud offerings like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or hosted virtualization from VMware. OpenStack supporters view it as a way to get the agility of AWS without having to move your applications (and more importantly your data) outside of a datacenter that you own and control. Judging from the event this week, the momentum is definitely on OpenStack’s side, and we’ll be hearing more about this in the future. Not only from the tech world, but soon from the business people as well. You’ve been asking for OpenStack for years, you just didn’t realize it. Follow along and you’ll see.

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