Does Stratus Have The Formula For OpenStack Success?

November 3, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from Forbes. Author: Patrick Moorhead.

This weekend was Formula 1 racing weekend. In my hometown, Austin Texas. Many may not believe it, but Austin is actually home to a US Formula 1 race track, and there are other international races here. Each year tens of thousands come from all around the world, representing the pinnacle of wealth, and they descend on Austin, the same town that boasts a “keep Austin weird” campaign.

As unlikely as that seems to be as a combination, it is similar to the combination of Stratus and high availability private clouds. When most think about the move to private cloud, they think about more conservative vendors like VMware VMW +1.57% and IBM IBM -0.4% leading customers down that path, but in reality, something that all of the big vendors still don’t have in their OpenStack solutions – high availability – is being delivered by Stratus, a company that cut its teeth on the idea of “always on” computing in the enterprise. Download our paper for detail on how they are making this happen…

Read more from the source @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2014/11/03/does-stratus-have-the-formula-for-success/