CASE STUDY: BUILDING DREAMHOST’S OPENSTACK CLOUD

One of the most compelling advantages of cloud computing is that (many) companies no longer need to get their hands dirty with all that messy underlying hardware. Using virtual machines, hardware can be anything—and anywhere—that it must be to best serve a business. No longer is a crystal ball necessary to determine the correct quantity of processors, RAM and drives that will satisfy future requirements. Nor is there a need to then be constrained by those decisions if the predictions don’t pan out. And no longer must in-house IT teams install and maintain these infrastructures.