'''[http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2014/node/115 Cloud Computing Infrastructure: Introduction with OpenStack]'''

Kent Poots is a man of many talents. Kent is a software engineer and Seneca College teacher who has industry experience dealing with hardware/software interfacing among most software platforms (naming Linux as his specialty) and he is also a PhD student at York University. His genuine interest is in virtualization which is what led him to development with OpenStack. Cloud computing is gaining popularity and Kent realizes this. The “cloud” is everywhere and people are using it everyday when they google something, use an online storage provider or even stream media; and they may not even be realizing they are using the “cloud”. He explains that the popularity of the cloud’s use among users lies primarily in the SaaS( software as a service) tier of potential uses. While there is also PaaS (Platform as a Service) which could be the use of Google’s App Engine, He focuses on the lowest and most unused tier of the cloud capabilities which is IaaS (infrastructure as a service). The idea with OpenStack is to provide an operating system and full virtualization capabilities through the cloud; an open source Cloud Operating System. The big question that Kent wants to answer is how will the implementation scale from 10 instances to 1000?