OpenStack’s Growth Remains in Private Cloud
June 23, 2014
Grazed from TheVaryGuy. Author: Chris Talbot.
OpenStack seems to have found its niche in the cloud computing market. An ever-increasing number of major vendors and cloud providers are turning to OpenStack to build out their own offerings and provide cloud infrastructure for customers. But, according to one analyst, OpenStack has its limitations, and it will stay within the private cloud world.
Battery Ventures technical fellow Adrian Cockcroft’s analysis on OpenStack was recently reported on at GigaOM. And Cockcroft, a former cloud expert who was most recently working at Netflix before moving to Battery Ventures, noted that OpenStack is really catching on in the private cloud. For those who have joined the growing open source cloud movement, this is great, as Cockcroft noted that the brand will dominate in the private cloud world…
Forget about the public cloud, though. OpenStack is going to be a minor player, at best. As Cockcroft noted, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will continue to be reigning king of the public cloud, with others like Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG) slowly catching up on the public cloud giant’s market share…
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