Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director, OpenStack Foundation:

The story of Jonathan Bryce is truly a fairy tale. Bryce had his youth filled with full of computers, which probed his elder brother, one of Rackspace’s first 12 employees, urge him to work for Rackspace. Later on, Bryce familiarized himself with Rackspace and its servers, and with Todd Morey’s companionship, Bryce started hosting sites on their own rented servers in Rackspace. In 2005, Bryce and his companions left Rackspace to build a hosting business, Mosso Cloud.

However Mosso still ran its servers on Rackspace data centers and Rackspace later on realized the emergence of cloud computing. This realization probed them to acquire Slicehost that had a virtual machine launching system under Mosso. Later, Bryce rejoined the company as the head of Rackspace Cloud.

The visionary of Bryce and party was simply exemplary, as they attempted to distinguish themselves from frontrunners, Amazon Web Services by proposing a new joint cloud project with NASA, the OpenStack. By 2009, Rackspace saw OpenStack as both a means of spreading a common cloud computing base in private companies that could interoperate with Rackspace, and a means of changing the terms of competition with Amazon.

The unmatched appeal and novelty of OpenStack led itself to form a newly formed management called OpenStack Foundation. The members of the foundation, such as Cisco and Red Hat, had no doubts on suggesting a name to lead the organization, as Bryce, at a very young age, was appointed as the executive director of OpenStack Foundation.

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