This Open Cloud Pioneer Says The Stack Wars are “Nonsense”

Grazed from SiliconAngle. Author: John Casaretto.

If you’re like me and you like to read about the latest emerging tech stuff, you’ve probably noticed all the debate around these “stack wars”. There is a lot of movement to embrace this evolving concept of cloud interoperability. The debate is around what will be the winning standard for legions of infrastructures around the world. Cloud computing is digging deep into the enterprise and one of the further issues being raised beyond just cloud portability is how to answer the struggles of integrating older applications with new cloud-based apps. That’s where we see these names come on, OpenStack, CloudStack, Eucalyptus, OpenNebula and the companies backing this side or that like Rackspace, Amazon AWS, IBM, and so on.

Momentum

OpenStack seems to have a lot of momentum going for it right now. One very public example had PayPal moving their platforms recently to OpenStack, and has built up their operations into the thousands of servers, with an operating base of hundreds of developers working with this architecture. XFINITY, Comcast – whichever one goes first, they’ve moved to OpenStack as well. There is still a lot of turmoil it seems…

Very recently an OpenStack Manifesto-type letter from Randy Bias hit the internet and it challenged the movement to embrace Amazon’s AWS APIs. It received a lot of attention, mainly because the underlying argument says the fortunes of OpenStack in the public cloud market were not good and that if this private cloud technology is to survive, it will have to be by embracing interoperability with Amazon AWS and Google Compute Engine…

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