PaaS, DevOps and Openstack for the Enterprise

August 25, 2013 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from Sys Con Media.  Author: Editorial Staff.

In previous blog we introduced ‘Private PaaS‘ as a major segment that will drive overall Enterprise Cloud adoption. We touched on how Appscale enables a ‘Google in a Box’ for the PaaS segment, along with others like Apprenda and Cloudbees.

Openstack for the Enterprise

Another option is of course Openstack and despite the VMware CEO claiming it’s not for the enterprise, it’s more likely it will become extremely popular in this space.  Already Openstack is a vibrant vendor partner community, meaning that the core platform can be extended in many different ways, such as high availability, federation, and more, and so can be tailored for the many demanding requirements of large enterprise customers…

For example Cisco is one vendor who offers an Openstack implementation, on their UCS platform. This blog from Omar Sultan explains how it fits into their existing product strategy, including their existing Cloud components like Intelligent Automation and newly acquired Virtuata and vCider…

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