Cloud Computing Battle Pits OpenStack Camp Vs. Amazon
October 9, 2013
Grazed from Investors.com. Author: Reinhardt Krause.
Cloud computing services providers backing the OpenStack software standard aim to build momentum with the upcoming release of Havana, an upgrade aimed at speeding up OpenStack adoption by the biggest companies.
Due this month, Havana is expected to iron out some of the technical issues uncovered by enterprises that have been testing OpenStack in data centers. Cloud services providers rent servers and storage to enterprise customers via the Internet cloud. Open-source software licensed freely, OpenStack connects data centers to cloud services…
Companies in the OpenStack camp include IBM (IBM), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Rackspace Hosting (RAX). Rackspace and NASA developed OpenStack. The OpenStack companies and other cloud services providers are all battling the 800-pound gorilla in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market. That would be Amazon Web Services, a unit of e-commerce king Amazon.com (AMZN). Amazon and another cloud biggie, VMware (VMW), are among those not in the OpenStack camp…
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