Cloud Computing: Changing Your Business Model with OpenStack
June 29, 2013
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Larry Carvalho.
In a recent presentation to Managed Service Providers (MSPs), I stressed that embracing standards had to be on their list of strategic priorities. Cloud solution success is based on a successful assembly of services from multiple providers for which standards play a key role. Included on that list should be OpenStack, the hottest open source project in cloud computing that has drawn the investment and attention of leading IT vendors like AT&T, Dell, IBM, HP and RedHat. So, should you care about OpenStack?
Cloud-based disruptions in the IT industry began when Amazon started offering computing resources via its Amazon Web Service (AWS) around 2005. Citrix’s CloudPlatform (based on Apache CloudStack) had an early start in infrastructure standards but does not have a growth that OpenStack is enjoying. For virtualization, VMware is the gold standard for customers who wish to automate their datacenters and are actively attempting to complete the transformation to private clouds using their Software Defined DataCenter approach…
As enterprises are being transformed by cloud computing, it becomes imperative for organizations to understand how to leverage it and respond with solutions in the marketplace. However, the significant leads that Amazon and VMware hold in their respective segments make it difficult for a single vendor to catch up, regardless of the effort invested. When Rackspace and NASA announced their cloud open source initiative followed by the launching of the OpenStack Foundation, some traditional IT vendors were left with few alternatives but to throw their weight behind OpenStack to provide alternatives to Amazon and VMware…
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