<p>New Orchestration, Metering, Global Object Storage Cluster and QoS Capabilities Speed Application Deployment</p><p>OpenStack HavanaTM, the eighth release of the open source software for building public, private, and hybrid clouds, is available today with nearly 400 new features to support software development, managing data and running application infrastructure at scale. New services like OpenStack Metering and Orchestration, coupled with enhancements to existing services like global clusters for Object Storage and QoS capabilities for Block Storage make it ideal for organizations that are building or deploying applications with OpenStack clouds.</p><p>"If software development, managing data or running application infrastructure is strategic to your business, OpenStack is the platform that will accelerate time to value," said Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation. "We've seen more users contribute directly to the Havana release than ever before. It means users are empowered and driving the direction of OpenStack based on their real-world use cases and implementations."</p><p>The OpenStack community continues to innovate at an even greater pace with 910 contributors to the Havana release, a more than 70% increase from the Grizzly release six months ago. More than 145 OpenStack ecosystem members employ developers who contributed to this release, including Canonical, DreamHost, eNovance, HP, IBM, Intel, Mirantis, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE, and Yahoo!. According to the latest user survey, OpenStack has been deployed in at least 358 cities across 72 countries.</p><p><a href="http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2013/10/17/havana-release-makes-it-easier-build-and-deploy-applications-openstack-clouds">Keep reading...</a></p>