Amazon Web Services can’t match our global data centre footprint, says OpenStack COO
November 5, 2014
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Matthew Finnegan.
OpenStack chief operating officer Mark Collier has taken aim at ‘monolithic’ public cloud provider Amazon Web Services, claiming it is unable to meet enterprise customer demand for localised data centre capacity. Addressing delegates at OpenStack Summit in Paris, Collier said that the network of operators running its open source cloud management software was more comprehensive than that of its rival.
This is despite AWS’ announcement of a second European data centre in Germany last month in order to address data sovereignty demands, expanding on its Irish facility. “You might say they have a lot of capacity, that they are in every region of the world. But if that capacity is not in the country that you need, then it is not really capacity,” he said…
“If you have a cloud in France and somebody comes to you and says ‘don’t worry, I have got one in Germany’, then that claim is a little bit suspect and it is not really capacity. It is audacity to tell you that that is good enough for you, and that they have it figured out.” “That is alright if you need the technology they have and you are in Germany, but if you need the technology and you are in France, it might not be enough.’…
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