OpenStack Cloud Training: Here Comes Generation Y
January 17, 2013
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Joe Panettieri.
For OpenStack to succeed, the open source cloud platform will need a big ecosystem of trained experts and channel partners. Enter Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) and MIT, which this week are training 20 students as part of a 12-hour introduction to OpenStack. Although that’s a small group, it’s the latest wakeup call for channel partners that are trying to get their arms around public and private cloud business opportunities.
During a recent Tech Data TDCloud conference near Tampa, Fla., very few VARs and MSPs were familiar with OpenStack and its channel implications. At that conference, Hewlett-Packard officials described how HP’s public cloud is built on the open source platform. And over time, it will become easier and easier to move workloads between corporate networks and the HP Cloud, the company asserted…
Students of the Cloud
Rackspace, meanwhile, is working hard to build and expand the community of OpenStack experts. This week’s MIT classroom features a “Cloud in a box”, consisting of 24 Dell laptops, ethernet switches, cables, and power adapters. The students will receive a 12-hour introduction to OpenStack from the OpenStack training team, according to a Rackspace spokesperson…
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