Tencent Gold Member OpenStack Foundation

Why is not Platinum membership? Founded in 2012, the OpenStack Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that sponsors dues and manages OpenStack projects to help promote the development, release, and use of OpenStack. Foundation members have individual members as well as corporate members. Individuals participating in individual members are free, and participating companies are divided into Platinum members, Gold members, Corporate sponsorships according to the company's choice and the amount of sponsorship fee. Several support organizations. The OpenStack Foundation allows for up to 8 Platinum Memberships and 24 Gold Memberships only. At present, the Foundation has eight Platinum members including AT & T, Canonical, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Rackspace, Red Hat and SUSE. The highest number Tencent is currently able to participate in are gold members such as Canonical, Cisco, Dell EMC and Mirantis and many more. Of course, do not rule out the withdrawal of platinum members, if there is that competition is expected next Tencent platinum members. Join OpenStack is inevitable Tencent joins the OpenStack Foundation is expected. Earlier, TStack was based on the infrastructure designed by Tencent and successfully managed more than 6,000 Xen virtual machines. However, the original TStack was not a cloud management platform that supports heterogeneous virtualization. It does not manage and take full advantage of many resources, including heterogeneous virtual machines, thousands of physical servers, and many third-party storage devices. In recent years, OpenStack has grown rapidly, matured and created a vast ecosystem. Dozens of industry leaders from around the world are participating in OpenStack and deploying many projects. OpenStack as a powerful force in cloud computing can be described as the first choice for open source cloud computing platform. As the most efficient solution for software-defined infrastructure, OpenStack has many advantages, such as open source and advanced design. Based on the evaluation and testing results of the internal IT operations team, Tencent introduced OpenStack as the infrastructure for TStack and expects to provide better service.

TStack is designed for large-scale environments. It manages more than 10,000 operating systems, 40% of which are deployed for more than 300 internal IT services including OA authentication, WeChat gateways, RTX, mail systems, video surveillance, internal security, feature management and ERP. These services require 24/7 uptime. TStack also manages various product development and testing services for Tencent such as WeChat, QQ, browser, games and more. It is reported that Tencent private cloud TStack has run 14 OpenStack clusters, a total of 6,000 nodes, supporting about 100 million users. In fact, before joining the OpenStack Foundation, Tencent has become one of the largest OpenStack users. Bowyer Liu, Chief Architect, TStack Cloud, Tencent, said: "Tencent is committed to the cloud computing market and OpenStack is part of our strategy to create a complete hybrid cloud services ecosystem for the global market. Tencent hopes to grow with OpenStack to provide Make valuable contributions and bring prosperity to the OpenStack ecosystem. " Write in the end Can be seen in the enterprise market, OpenStack is undoubtedly the most talked about open source segments, it is even compared to many people in the industry as open source Android, the future may become the mainstream of enterprise IT operating system. Today, Tencent into the OpenStack Foundation members, shows that Chinese enterprises in OpenStack seats and status gradually increased, by the global market attention.