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-Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large
+Apache CloudStack is open-source software designed to deploy and manage large
 networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable
 Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used
 by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many