Haiti is again at particular risk from this, as more than 60% of the country has hillside slopes greater than 20%. Finally, weak institutional capacity and financial resources limit Haitiâs ability to coordinate effective responses to natural disasters and to take sufficient adaptation measures.
What is OpenStack? OpenStack is an open source cloud computing software platform. OpenStack consists of projects that control pools of storage, computing and networking resources throughout a data center. This data center can be managed through a web-based interface, command-line tools, or through a REST API.
OpenStack, which is freely available under the Apache 2.0 license, is often referred to in the media as the Linux of the Cloud and is compared to Eucalyptus and the Apache CloudStack project, two other open source cloud initiatives. OpenStack has a modular architecture that currently has eleven components: Nova-provides virtual machines (VMs) upon demand. Swift-provides a scalable storage system that supports object storage. Cinder-provides persistent block storage to guest VMs. Glance-provides a catalog and repository for virtual disk images.