IDG Contributor Network: Verizon taps Red Hat and OpenStack for its NFV deployment

This week marks the annual North American OpenStack Summit, this year being held back where it all began, in Austin, Texas. When OpenStack began, half a dozen or so years ago, it was focused on giving service providers and large enterprises the ability to compete with Amazon Web Services (AWS). Using the open source OpenStack operating system, organizations could build themselves an "Amazon-like" cloud of their own.

The initiative has, it must be admitted, been buffeted by some strong headwinds -- too many vendors creating similar offerings, too much venture investment in undifferentiated and immature companies, and too much talk (and corresponding lack of action) all hurt the early days of OpenStack.

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