Metacloud Will Build, Run Your Private Cloud
June 13, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
OpenStack is a good foundation for a private cloud, but some say it’s hard to master all the skills you need to get the different components to work together. Maybe Python isn’t your thing. Still, you want your cloud operations to be on your hardware in your data center. OpenStack is one way to do it.
Metacloud says it will do that for you — build an OpenStack cloud on your hardware at your premises — then operate it for you remotely. "It’s a new paradigm," said Metacloud CEO Sean Lynch, a former senior VP of technical operations at Ticketmaster. Metacloud has released its Metacloud Carbon|OS version of OpenStack to serve as the foundation for private clouds…
Is this PCaaS — private cloud as a service? Is this private cloud with a public operator — Metacloud will manage many private clouds simultaneously from its own data center. Or is it private cloud with a split, hybrid-style operation? Even the National Institute of Standards and Technology, with its long cloud definition, would be challenged this time around. But it’s an idea that many companies, daunted by the pace of change, the 1,031 contributors and sheer volume of the OpenStack software stack, may find attractive…
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