“Red Hat® OpenStack® Platform is basically a cloud computing platform that virtualizes resources from industry-standard hardware, manages those resources into clouds, and organizes them so that the end-users can access them according to their needs whenever and wherever.

In general terms, OpenStack is an open-source platform for cloud computing that utilizes virtual resources to establish and control individual and public clouds. We call ‘projects’ the tools that comprise the OpenStack platforms that usually manage the basic infrastructure of cloud computing diverse services of computing, networking, storage, identification, and image services.”