Microsoft announced that open source software stack open fit for its Windows Server R2 to make Hyper-V. While the company works with Cloud.com together the necessary code to perform the adjustments. Microsoft controls architectural and technological guidance. Objective would be to Windows and open-source programs to use parallel systems in cloud.

In July launched OpenStack initiative provides products Compute and Object Storage on commodity making their hardware. Compute create and manage large groups of virtual servers, object storage volumes of data is redundant, scalable storage for up to the petabyte range. During this part of the project will be ready for production, is the computer software currently the Austin-release has been published, which is intended for testing purposes mainly. Into being called the project, NASA and Rackspace. Currently 37 companies belong to AMD, Intel, Dell and Cloud.com.