Mirantis CEO says OpenStack will win

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Dan Kusnetzky.

Adrian Lonel, Mirantis CEO and President, stopped by to chat about how organizations are adopting cloud computing and how, in his vision, OpenStack is positioned to win over the others. Although it is impossible for me to really do justice to our rapidly moving conversation, I’ll try to summarize what was touched upon.

Trends in developing Cloud-based applications

There are a number of groups seeking to define the stack of software everyone will use to develop cloud-based workloads. Amazon Web Services and its frenemy Eucalyptus Systems hope that the stack of software defined by Amazon will win. Microsoft hopes that Microsoft’s Windows Azure will become the standard. Two different open source communities, Apache CloudStack and the OpenStack believe that their approach to building cloud-based applications will win. Lonel believes that OpenStack is likely to win because of the following reasons:…

• OpenStack was developed by a community of vendors, service suppliers and end user organizations to address real world problems. It is not proprietary and not designed to address the needs of a single vendor
• The OpenStack foundation has already attracted more than 9,500 individual members from 100 countries and 850 different organizations. It has secured more than $10 million in funding.
• It is now easy to deploy and manage. At this point, Lonel was happy to point out that Mirantis has developed FUEL, an open source tool designed to make installation and provisioning of OpenStack easy.
• OpenStack is open and supports many operating systems, types of virtual machine software and networks.
• Open source projects, such as Hadoop, can already be supported in an OpenStack environment…

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