For a long time, IT infrastructure depended on commercial software (from vendors such as VMWare, Microsoft, and Citrix) to provide virtual environments for running workloads and managing resources (such as computing, storage, and networking). However, IT industry is moving to cloud era and engineers are migrating workloads and applications to the cloud (either public or private), and that requires a new framework that is able to manage all application resources, providing an open and robust API interface to interact with external calls from other applications.
OpenStack provides an open access and integration to manage all of your computing, storage, and networking resources, avoiding a vendor lock-in when you're building your cloud. It can control a large pool of compute nodes, storage arrays, and networking devices, regardless of the vendor...