OpenStack Gains Critical Mass; Are Cloud Channel Partners Ready?
November 6, 2013
Grazed from TheVarGuy. Author: Editorial Staff.
OpenStack, the open source cloud program, has achieved multiple milestones this week. Cisco Systems (CSCO), Canonical, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Red Hat (RHT), VMware (VMW), Mirantis and others have announced major moves at this week’s OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong. From cloud services providers (CSPs) to VARs, it’s time for the IT channel to take a much closer look at this technology and its business implications. Here’s why.
OpenStack started off as an open source project led by Rackspace (RAX) and NASA. The idea was to help customers and CSPs rapidly stand up private and public clouds rapidly. In theory, if OpenStack became ubiquitous, it would allow customers and service providers to more easily move workloads from one cloud to another. In some ways, OpenStack has also emerged as a potential standard alternative to Amazon Web Services (AWS)…
Fast forward to the present and OpenStack has moved far beyond the Rackspace and NASA heritage. Similar to how multiple Linux distributions emerged, Red Hat and a long list of rivals have introduced their own OpenStack distributions. And this week a flood of additional news has arrived. For instance:…
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