Dell cloud decision ‘will not affect OpenStack involvement’
June 7, 2013
Grazed from ITWire. Author: Sam Varghese.
Dell’s decision to back off from using OpenStack as the basis for its public cloud offering will not affect the company’s commitment to the open source cloud computing platform, according to Alan Clark, chairman of the OpenStack Foundation. "I talked to them, in fact they talked to me before they made that announcement, and wanted to assure us that that would not decrease their commitment to OpenStack," Clark (pictured) told iTWire on the sidelines of the Novell Brainshare Forum on Wednesday.
"Putting my SUSE hat on, they are a great partner to SUSE to deliver private cloud solutions. They are changing and modifying their business direction a little bit so that they are in a better position to compete in the public space but that’s not changing their commitment to OpenStack."…
Dell announced last month that it had bought Enstratius, a small firm that creates tools and dashboards to manage hybrid and private clouds. A few days after this announcement, Dell said that it would not be basing its public cloud on OpenStack and that its public cloud partners would be Joyent, ScaleMatrix and ZeroLag….
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