Top-Tier Vendors Begin Posturing on OpenStack Implementations

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Chris Preimesberger.

Let the positioning begin. The big, all-purpose IT vendors are beginning to confront each other about how best to use and support OpenStack cloud computing software within their own environments, even though they are hardly experts on the topic.  These guys had little or nothing to do with the development of the fast-rising data center system, yet they are quickly jumping aboard a train that appears to be built for the long haul.

Remember the oft-used line about how innovation usually happens elsewhere? Well, that’s OpenStack. It was born and raised partly in some old military buildings on the site of a former federal airfield and not in some gleaming, new Silicon Valley campus…


IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Oracle, EMC, Red Hat, VMware, Cisco Systems—they’re all adopters, not co-creators, of this groundbreaking open-source/standards cloud operating system, which was hatched four years ago from a research partnership between NASA’s open-source IT group at Moffett Field in Mountain View, Calif., and San Francisco-based Rackspace Hosting…

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