Cloud Computing: Top 8 questions for the OpenStack Summit
October 9, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
If the OpenStack Summit is anywhere near as dramatic as the events leading up to it, it will be a really good show. As the open-source cloud effort transitions from a Rackspace-dominated move to a true community effort, here are 8 big questions.
To say there’s been a lot of build up to this year’s OpenStack Summit would be an understatement. The drama around VMware’s application to join the OpenStack Foundation and the delayed acceptance of that bid got tongues wagging. It’s only natural, as OpenStack transitioned from a Rackspace-dominated project to a multi-vendor effort with participation from IBM, SUSE, Cisco, HP and pretty much the rest of the known tech universe with the notable exception of Amazon…
Sadly, a scheduling conflict with Structure: Europe (where cloud will also be on the menu) prevents me from hitting the show, but here are 8 questions for the OpenStack cognoscenti.
1: What’s IBM’s play? Big Blue is relatively late to the party, having joined OpenStack last spring, but folks want to know when it will offer its own OpenStack-based cloud. IBM’s model with Apache has been to ship the open-source code with its hardware and software, and in theory it could do something like that here. Still, if IBM is all-in on OpenStack it will have to make some statement about where the cloud platform fits into IBM’s SmartCloud universe or even its shiny new enterprise-class cloud launched with AT&T on Tuesday. Red Hat, which joined the effort at the same time as IBM, posted a preview of its OpenStack cloud in August…
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