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George Vanecek, PhD is a principal architect at Huawei's US Innovation Center R&D. When looking around the market Dr. Vanecek and his team considered building everything from scratch and adopting commercial technologies. Their decision ended up being to adopt OpenStack.

OpenStack is a collection of open source technology products delivering a scalable, secure, standards-based cloud computing software solution. It is used by corporations, service providers, VARS, SMBs, researchers, and global data centers looking to deploy large-scale cloud deployments for private or public clouds leveraging the support and resulting technology of a global open source community.