美國電話電報公司（AT&T）于周一與OpenStack云正式簽約，OpenStack云是Rackspace和美國國家航空航天局共同創建的開源云計算項目。
在拉斯維加斯舉行的AT&T開發者峰會上，美國國家航空航天局顯示了對OpenStack的忠誠。加入AT&T標志著OpenStack的第一次運輸政變，而這僅僅用了18個月的時間。
自去年年初就有流言稱AT&T 已經與OpenStack進行合作，并且在AT&T 首席技術官John Donovan的博客中得到官方證實。
他寫道：“我們今天還宣布了AT&T已經成為美國第一個加入OpenStack的電信服務供應商，OpenStack擁有全球140多家技術公司。我們已經加入OpenStack一年之久并且已經為OpenStack的潛在新功能規劃了藍圖，著眼于事務性任務管理。”
Donavan又說道：“如今我們正在把專用基礎設施上的OpenStack功能加入到AT&T位于達拉斯、圣地亞哥和新考克斯新澤西州的數據中心。我們計劃在2012年讓雙倍的數據中心具有開源功能。”
AT&T加入了OpenStack145多家公司的行列，其他主要IT企業包括思科、Citrix、戴爾、惠普、英特爾。
OpenStack現在正式發行了第四版本，名為Diablo，自從2010年7月發行此項目起，開源企業已經得到了從自身資料庫中超過5萬的下載量并且吸引了300多位活躍的開發者。
AT&T 的加入正值OpenStack云產品組合持續增長之時。云管理供應商Zenoss十一月的一項包括了幾百位調查OpenStack與會者的調查發現，73的受調查者正在考慮使用OpenStack部署，43%的人計劃一年內在OpenStack實現運行。
AT&T與OpenStack的合作也是推動云計算的另一個發展，在這其中主要的服務供應和載體正在通過收購（如Verizon收購Terremark）或是大筆的云投資把服務范圍擴大到云領域。
除了公布與OpenStack的合作外，AT&T在周一還列出了云開發者計劃。AT&T展示了AT&T云架構，它是一個以開發者為中心，使開發者劃算的得到靈活、綜合的計算和應用開發服務的云。
“云架構將提供一套強大的選項和配置，”他寫道。“你將能夠安裝公共和私有計算實例或者選擇用裸機或是專用服務器選項自始至終的進行構建。云架構將在幾周后投入應用，我們也將全年擴展以開發者為中心的服務供應。”
AT&T on Monday officially signed on with the OpenStack cloud, the Rackspace- and NASA-created open-source cloud computing project.
The major carrier revealed its OpenStack allegiance during its AT&T Developer Summit in Las Vegas. Adding AT&T marks the first carrier coup for the OpenStack play, which just hit the 18-month mark.
AT&T has been rumored to be working with OpenStack since early last year and in a blog post, John Donovan, AT&T's CTO, made it official.
"We also announced today that AT&T has become the first U.S. telecom services provider to join the OpenStack initiative, a community of more than 140 technology companies worldwide," he wrote. "We've been participating in OpenStack for more than a year and have already contributed a blueprint for a potential new function within OpenStack, focused on transactional task management.
"We’re housing our OpenStack capabilities on dedicated infrastructure in three AT&T data centers today, with locations in Dallas, San Diego and Secaucus, New Jersey," Donavan continued. "We plan to more than double the number of our centers with open-source capabilities in 2012."
AT&T joins the ranks of other major IT players like Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, Intel and others that comprise the now more than 145 companies that participate in OpenStack.OpenStack is now in its fourth official release, called Diablo, and since the project's launch in July 2010 the open-source cloud initiative has experienced well over 50,000 downloads from its own repository and has enticed more than 300 active developers.
AT&T joining OpenStack also comes as OpenStack's cloud profile continues to grow. A recent survey by cloud management vendor Zenoss, which polled several hundred attendees at the OpenStack Conference in October, found that 73 percent are considering some kind of OpenStack deployment and that 43 percent plan to be operational on OpenStack within a year.
AT&T pairing with OpenStack is yet another development in the carrier push into cloud computing, in which major service providers and carriers are broadening their offerings to include the cloud, either through acquisition, like Verizon's purchase of Terremark, or massive monetary cloud investments.
In addition to unveiling its OpenStack partnership, AT&T on Monday also outlined plans for cloud developers. AT&T showcased AT&T Cloud Architect, a developer-centric cloud that gives developers cost-efficient access to flexible, integrated computing and app development services.
"Cloud Architect will provide a powerful set of options and configurations," he wrote. "You'll be able to set up a public and private computing instances or choose to build from the ground up with our bare metal or dedicated server options. Cloud Architect will be available in coming weeks, and our developer-centric service offers will expand throughout the year."
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