Beware the fake OpenStack clouds

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

According to Nancy Gohring at IT World, the OpenStack Foundation is starting to call out incompatible clouds. "Get ready for the OpenStack Foundation to start cracking down on service providers that call their clouds OpenStack but aren’t actually interoperable," she wrote, "The first companies that may be in the foundation’s crosshairs: HP and Rackspace."

Rackspace is an early innovator with OpenStack, and Hewlett-Packard could be the largest OpenStack provider by the end of the year. It’s interesting they’re the first to be accused of compatibility issues. HP and Rackspace have both fired back with responses to the compatibility allegations:…

"HP Cloud Services adheres to OpenStack’s interoperability guidelines. We are committed to OpenStack and are compatible with OpenStack APIs. In addition, we have a policy of not introducing proprietary API extensions. HP is supporting core OpenStack APIs and we have not added our own proprietary API extensions, therefore this ensures our interoperability with other OpenStack deployments," HP said in a statement…

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