At the intersection of OpenStack and today’s public cloud reality
May 18, 2014
Grazed from SiliconAngle. Author: Maria Deutscher.
Like many of its traditional rivals, Oracle has adopted an ’if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em’ attitude towards OpenStack in an implicit acknowledgment that the project is disrupting the proprietary systems and software that currently account for the bulk of its revenues. But the database maker has arrived late to the party, allowing the competition to race ahead and establish a beachhead in what is poised to become a very lucrative market in a few years’ time.
Now, in an attempt to catch up with the rest of the industry, Oracle rolling out its very own version of the free cloud platform that runs on latest releases of its Linux distribution and hypervisor. Unveiled on Tuesday and currently in technical preview, the release comes as a response to the efforts of Red Hat to standardize OpenStack deployments atop RHEL…
Having been around for a few years longer, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform offers a number of advantages over Oracle’s distro in terms of functionality. It delivers a level of integration that Larry Ellison’s firm has yet to match and, just as importantly, seamlessly hooks up to the public cloud to allow for workload mobility across on- and off-premise environments. The newest version of the company’s platform-as-a-service stack makes hybrid computing an even more attractive proposition through a set of improvements meant to streamline administration…
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