OpenStack: Vive la revolution!
March 19, 2013
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.
InfoWorld’s Eric Knorr made a good call last week, stating, "IBM would take the helm as the corporate steward of OpenStack, surpassing in importance even Rackspace — which along with NASA gave birth to OpenStack three years ago."
Although IBM won’t provide its own OpenStack-based product, it will offer piece-parts based on OpenStack. IBM’s sheer size and influence will make it one of the biggest drivers of OpenStack, passing up Hewlett-Packard, Rackspace, and dozens of other smaller OpenStack upstarts. Remember how IBM was a major force in mainstreaming Linux and open source a decade ago? It has the same potential with OpenStack…
Of course, IBM isn’t the only 800-pound gorilla seeing opportunity in OpenStack. Last week Oracle acquired Nimbula, an OpenStack-based hybrid/private cloud technology provider. Most cloud market watchers, including me, believe Oracle is seeking core skills more than core technology — in this case, OpenStack and Amazon Web Services expertise…
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