Cloud détente? Eucalyptus, CloudStack backers to speak at OpenStack confab

Grazed from GigaOM.  Author: Barb Darrow.

The inaugural OpenStack Silicon Valley event next month will feature speakers from the OpenStack posse: HP, Red Hat, Cloudscaling, Mirantis — the usual suspects (although IBM is mysteriously missing.)  But it will also spotlight keynoters from Eucalyptus and Citrix. That’s surprising since those companies back rival open-source clouds.

And yet Mårten Mickos, the CEO of Eucalyptus, who once likened OpenStack with its myriad backers to the Soviet Union of cloud, will be there to talk. So will Sameer Dholakia, group VP and GM of cloud computing for Citrix, a primary backer of CloudStack, another open-source cloud framework…


It seems that the détente detected when Mickos, Dholakia and Nebula CTO Chris Kemp — one of OpenStack’s founding fathers — spoke at Structure 2014 in June was no fluke. The panel was a much more copacetic do-over of their contentious appearance two years before, when one panelist said it was unlikely that all three of those private clouds would be standing in a few years time…

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