OpenStack threatens PaaS providers with new project
October 24, 2013
Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Nancy Gohring.
It’s been a week of controversy surrounding OpenStack and the platform as a service market and it just got more interesting. OpenStack yesterday announced a new project called Solum, backed by eBay, RedHat, Ubuntu/Canonical, dotCloud/Docker, Cloudsoft, Rackspace and Cumulogic. The blog post about it is very light on details. It says the project aims to ease the pain associated with:
- Application development and deployment
- Application lifecycle management across dev, test and production environments
- Portability between public and private clouds…
OpenStack is positioning this as an application lifecycle management project. The trouble is, some people figure it sounds a lot more like a PaaS. “Solum looks like PaaS to me, despite positioning as ALM,” wrote Gartner analyst Lydia Leong on Twitter. She also wrote that it would compete directly with Cloud Foundry, the PaaS designed to run on a variety of clouds, including those built on OpenStack…
Read more from the source @ http://www.itworld.com/cloud-computing/379989/openstack-threatens-paas-providers-new-project