OpenStack push grows, Microsoft and Amazon square off: The year in cloud computing
December 27, 2013
Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Daniel Robinson.
Cloud computing continued its inexorable spread during 2013. Momentum continued to gather behind the open source OpenStack platform, while private cloud provider VMware looked to extend its reach to public cloud services. Meanwhile Microsoft moved to compete against Amazon with infrastructure as a service support on Azure.
With many organisations seemingly more confident about adopting cloud services for some IT services this year, the focus has been less on whether private cloud or public cloud would win out and growing acceptance that hybrid cloud – a combination of both – is the way that most customers will consume cloud services…
But different cloud approaches have still been vying for customer attention, with the OpenStack community touting its open framework as the only way to avoid a lock-in to proprietary technology. OpenStack marked its third anniversary in July, trumpeting the fact that it now had the backing of major IT firms such as Cisco, Red Hat, IBM and HP, with developers from over 200 different companies across more than 120 countries working on the project. The platform saw two releases this year, with ‘Grizzly’ coming in April and ‘Havana’ in October. The latter added key updates such as a metering module codenamed Ceilometer, and an orchestration module codenamed Heat…
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