Mirantis moves out of OpenStack BS-as-a-Service market

A wise person once said: The only thing that is constant is change. Open source cloud solutions like OpenStack are challenging companies to come up with new business models to innovate. It was high time for pure play OpenStack company Mirantis to make the right move in the right direction, at the right time.

In September, Mirantis announced that they acquired TCP Cloud, a company that specializes in managed services for OpenStack. The news stirred the beehive as Mirantis was stepping on some partner toes and it was also moving away from the ‘pure play OpenStack company’ model.

The real value lies in people and not technology

As OpenStack and other such open source technologies are disrupting the cloud, the real value doesn’t come from technology alone. The actual value comes from deep understanding and experience about those technologies. It’s about how these solutions solve real world problems, how they enable companies to take advantage of it. All of that comes from people. You can’t package that immense knowledge in a container and ship around.

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Read the entire article at the source @ http://www.cio.com/article/3144337/cloud-computing/mirantis-moves-out-of-openstack-bs-as-a-service-market.html