First commercial OpenStack-based cloud compute service announced

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The first commercially available cloud compute service built on the open source OpenStack platform has been announced by IT infrastucture provider Internap. The company says that, by being based on OpenStack and through the use of standardised APIs, the new service, Open Public Cloud, enables customers to avoid the pitfall of cloud vendor lock-in. The service uses the open source Xen hypervisor and is integrated with Internap’s OpenStack-based cloud storage.

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