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Tech giant Google recently announced that it is joining the OpenStack Foundation in its plan to upgrade its own cloud computing platform.
OpenStack Foundation is the governing body that supervises the use of OpenStack, a free cloud-based program that counts some of the biggest names in technology as its member including Intel, HP and IBM.
Google's decision to join OpenStack will save the company millions of dollars since it does not need to invest into its own data centers now that it is part of one of the biggest cloud computing server in the world.
According to Fortune, Google is joining OpenStack as a corporate sponsor and not the conventional mid-tier Gold or top-tier Platinum level. The company's aim is to make sure that Linux containers and associated container management will world flawlessly in the OpenStack environment. Currently, Google has an open source system, called Kubernetes, which it uses to manage contained applications in different hosts.
With Google's entry, the company is expected to share its expertise when it comes to software containers. Container technology allows developers write their own codes drawn from different databases and servers and then compile it into a single container that can be transferred from one environment to another as long as it runs on the Linux platform and supports Docker.
On the other hand, Docker is an open-source platform that automatically deploys application confined inside a software container.
Google cloud platform product manager Craig McLuckie told Business Insider, "[We're] letting our customers pick where they run their workloads solely technical on the merit of the platform, and their specific business needs. Ensuring that the technologies we build work well is a big part of that."
