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       <listitem>
         <para>Materials and equipment</para>
       </listitem>
+	  <listitem>
+	  <para>OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large
+    pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a
+    datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives
+    administrators control while empowering their users to provision
+    resources through a web interface.</para>
+  <para>OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud
+    computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud
+    computing platform for public and private clouds. The project aims
+    to deliver solutions for all types of clouds by being</para>
+  <itemizedlist>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>simple to implement</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>massively scalable</para>
+    </listitem>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>feature rich.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </itemizedlist>
+  <para>To check out more information on OpenStack visit <link
+      xlink:href="http://goo.gl/Ye9DFT"
+    >http://goo.gl/Ye9DFT</link></para>
+  <para><guilabel> OpenStack Foundation :</guilabel></para>
+    <para>The OpenStack Foundation, established September 2012, is an
+      independent body providing shared resources to help achieve the
+      OpenStack Mission by Protecting, Empowering, and Promoting
+      OpenStack software and the community around it, including users,
+      developers and the entire ecosystem. For more information visit
+      http://goo.gl/3uvmNX.</para>
+  <para><guilabel> Who's behind OpenStack? </guilabel></para>
+    <para>Founded by Rackspace Hosting and NASA, OpenStack has grown
+      to be a global software community of developers collaborating on
+      a standard and massively scalable open source cloud operating
+      system. The OpenStack Foundation promotes the development,
+      distribution and adoption of the OpenStack cloud operating
+      system. As the independent home for OpenStack, the Foundation
+      has already attracted more than 7,000 individual members from
+      100 countries and 850 different organizations, secured more than
+      $10 million in funding and is ready to fulfill the OpenStack
+      mission of becoming the ubiquitous cloud computing platform.
+      Checkout <link xlink:href="http://goo.gl/BZHJKd">http://goo.gl/BZHJKd</link>ýfor more on the same.</para>
+    <figure>
+      <title>Nebula (NASA)</title>
+      <mediaobject>
+        <imageobject>
+          <imagedata fileref="figures/image23.jpg"/>
+        </imageobject>
+      </mediaobject>
+    </figure>
+    <para>The goal of the OpenStack Foundation is to serve developers,
+      users, and the entire ecosystem by providing a set of shared
+      resources to grow the footprint of public and private OpenStack
+      clouds, enable technology vendors targeting the platform and
+      assist developers in producing the best cloud software in the
+      industry.</para>
+  <para><guilabel>Who uses OpenStack?</guilabel></para>
+    <para>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. And
+      this is just two years into OpenStack, its new, its yet to
+      mature and has immense possibilities. How do I say that? All
+      these ‘buzz words’ will fall into a properly solved jigsaw
+      puzzle as you go through this article.</para>
+  <para><guilabel>Its Open Source:</guilabel></para>
+    <para>All of the code for OpenStack is freely available under the
+      Apache 2.0 license. Anyone can run it, build on it, or submit
+      changes back to the project. This open development model is one
+      of the best ways to foster badly-needed cloud standards, remove
+      the fear of proprietary lock-in for cloud customers, and create
+      a large ecosystem that spans cloud providers.</para>
+  <para><guilabel>Who it's for:</guilabel></para>
+    <para>Enterprises, service providers, government and academic
+      institutions with physical hardware that would like to build a
+      public or private cloud.</para>
+  <para><guilabel>How it's being used today:</guilabel></para>
+    <para>Organizations like CERN, Cisco WebEx, DreamHost, eBay, the
+      Gap, HP, MercadoLibre, NASA, PayPal, Rackspace and University of
+      Melbourne have deployed OpenStack clouds to achieve control,
+      business agility and cost savings without the licensing fees and
+      terms of proprietary software. For complete user stories visit
+        <link xlink:href="http://goo.gl/aF4lsL"
+        >http://goo.gl/aF4lsL</link>, this should give a good idea
+      about importance of OpenStack.</para>
+	  </listitem>
       </orderedlist>
     </para>
 </chapter>