美國(guó)電話電報(bào)公司（AT&T）于周一與OpenStack云正式簽約，OpenStack云是Rackspace和美國(guó)國(guó)家航空航天局共同創(chuàng)建的開(kāi)源云計(jì)算項(xiàng)目。

在拉斯維加斯舉行的AT&T開(kāi)發(fā)者峰會(huì)上，美國(guó)國(guó)家航空航天局顯示了對(duì)OpenStack的忠誠(chéng)。加入AT&T標(biāo)志著OpenStack的第一次運(yùn)輸政變，而這僅僅用了18個(gè)月的時(shí)間。

自去年年初就有流言稱AT&T 已經(jīng)與OpenStack進(jìn)行合作，并且在AT&T 首席技術(shù)官John Donovan的博客中得到官方證實(shí)。

他寫(xiě)道：“我們今天還宣布了AT&T已經(jīng)成為美國(guó)第一個(gè)加入OpenStack的電信服務(wù)供應(yīng)商，OpenStack擁有全球140多家技術(shù)公司。我們已經(jīng)加入OpenStack一年之久并且已經(jīng)為OpenStack的潛在新功能規(guī)劃了藍(lán)圖，著眼于事務(wù)性任務(wù)管理。”

Donavan又說(shuō)道：“如今我們正在把專用基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施上的OpenStack功能加入到AT&T位于達(dá)拉斯、圣地亞哥和新考克斯新澤西州的數(shù)據(jù)中心。我們計(jì)劃在2012年讓雙倍的數(shù)據(jù)中心具有開(kāi)源功能。”

AT&T加入了OpenStack145多家公司的行列，其他主要IT企業(yè)包括思科、Citrix、戴爾、惠普、英特爾。

OpenStack現(xiàn)在正式發(fā)行了第四版本，名為Diablo，自從2010年7月發(fā)行此項(xiàng)目起，開(kāi)源企業(yè)已經(jīng)得到了從自身資料庫(kù)中超過(guò)5萬(wàn)的下載量并且吸引了300多位活躍的開(kāi)發(fā)者。

AT&T 的加入正值OpenStack云產(chǎn)品組合持續(xù)增長(zhǎng)之時(shí)。云管理供應(yīng)商Zenoss十一月的一項(xiàng)包括了幾百位調(diào)查OpenStack與會(huì)者的調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)，73的受調(diào)查者正在考慮使用OpenStack部署，43%的人計(jì)劃一年內(nèi)在OpenStack實(shí)現(xiàn)運(yùn)行。

AT&T與OpenStack的合作也是推動(dòng)云計(jì)算的另一個(gè)發(fā)展，在這其中主要的服務(wù)供應(yīng)和載體正在通過(guò)收購(gòu)（如Verizon收購(gòu)Terremark）或是大筆的云投資把服務(wù)范圍擴(kuò)大到云領(lǐng)域。

除了公布與OpenStack的合作外，AT&T在周一還列出了云開(kāi)發(fā)者計(jì)劃。AT&T展示了AT&T云架構(gòu)，它是一個(gè)以開(kāi)發(fā)者為中心，使開(kāi)發(fā)者劃算的得到靈活、綜合的計(jì)算和應(yīng)用開(kāi)發(fā)服務(wù)的云。

“云架構(gòu)將提供一套強(qiáng)大的選項(xiàng)和配置，”他寫(xiě)道。“你將能夠安裝公共和私有計(jì)算實(shí)例或者選擇用裸機(jī)或是專用服務(wù)器選項(xiàng)自始至終的進(jìn)行構(gòu)建。云架構(gòu)將在幾周后投入應(yīng)用，我們也將全年擴(kuò)展以開(kāi)發(fā)者為中心的服務(wù)供應(yīng)。”

AT&T on Monday officially signed on with the OpenStack cloud, the Rackspace- and NASA-created open-source cloud computing project.

The major carrier revealed its OpenStack allegiance during its AT&T Developer Summit in Las Vegas. Adding AT&T marks the first carrier coup for the OpenStack play, which just hit the 18-month mark.

AT&T has been rumored to be working with OpenStack since early last year and in a blog post, John Donovan, AT&T's CTO, made it official.

"We also announced today that AT&T has become the first U.S. telecom services provider to join the OpenStack initiative, a community of more than 140 technology companies worldwide," he wrote. "We've been participating in OpenStack for more than a year and have already contributed a blueprint for a potential new function within OpenStack, focused on transactional task management.

"We’re housing our OpenStack capabilities on dedicated infrastructure in three AT&T data centers today, with locations in Dallas, San Diego and Secaucus, New Jersey," Donavan continued. "We plan to more than double the number of our centers with open-source capabilities in 2012."

AT&T joins the ranks of other major IT players like Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, Intel and others that comprise the now more than 145 companies that participate in OpenStack.OpenStack is now in its fourth official release, called Diablo, and since the project's launch in July 2010 the open-source cloud initiative has experienced well over 50,000 downloads from its own repository and has enticed more than 300 active developers.

AT&T joining OpenStack also comes as OpenStack's cloud profile continues to grow. A recent survey by cloud management vendor Zenoss, which polled several hundred attendees at the OpenStack Conference in October, found that 73 percent are considering some kind of OpenStack deployment and that 43 percent plan to be operational on OpenStack within a year.

AT&T pairing with OpenStack is yet another development in the carrier push into cloud computing, in which major service providers and carriers are broadening their offerings to include the cloud, either through acquisition, like Verizon's purchase of Terremark, or massive monetary cloud investments.

In addition to unveiling its OpenStack partnership, AT&T on Monday also outlined plans for cloud developers. AT&T showcased AT&T Cloud Architect, a developer-centric cloud that gives developers cost-efficient access to flexible, integrated computing and app development services.

"Cloud Architect will provide a powerful set of options and configurations," he wrote. "You'll be able to set up a public and private computing instances or choose to build from the ground up with our bare metal or dedicated server options. Cloud Architect will be available in coming weeks, and our developer-centric service offers will expand throughout the year."