Mirantis pitches a do-it-yourself OpenStack cloud

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

Which OpenStack component is best for your needs? Mirantis says its Do-it-Yourself OpenStack service can sort this out for you and provide the best, most stable OpenStack infrastructure to meet given needs. OpenStack is coming into its own, at least if you count the number of companies delivering OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure. But with variety comes confusion. Who do you go with? Rackspace? Red Hat? Hewlett-Packard? Cloudscaling? SUSE? Ubuntu? Internap? Someone else? Storage from one vendor, compute from another? Mirantis is pitching itself as just the company to sort out the best OpenStack technologies for a given implementation.

The systems integrator is now offering its prescriptions for the best “Do it yourself” OpenStack for your needs, said Boris Renski, co-founder of the Mountain View, Calif.-based company. Mirantis, a member of the OpenStack Foundation board, says its already delivered more than 30 OpenStack deployments for companies including The Gap, PayPal, Internap, Webex, Internap — even NASA, the great grandaddy of OpenStack itself…

Here’s the thing about OpenStack — techies inside companies often want cloud computing capabilities and have the wherewithal to test them out but not the time or energy to knit together the disparate pieces that go into an OpenStack cloud. Mirantis says it can offer that OpenStack infrastructure — having already vetted the best, most stable OpenStack components and deliver them in a fixed time for a fixed amount, Renski told me…

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