VIDEO: Why is Huawei Backing the OpenStack Cloud?
November 14, 2013
Grazed from EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet. Author: Sean Michael Kerner.
Chinese IT giant Huawei is embracing the open source OpenStack cloud platform. During the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong last week, Huawei officially became a Gold Member of the OpenStack Foundation. In an exclusive video interview with Enterprise Networking Planet, Haiying Wan, VP and CTO of Cloud Computing at Huawei, explained why his company plans to play a key role in pushing OpenStack forward in China and around the world.
Becoming a Gold Member of the OpenStack Foundation isn’t just a matter of paying a membership fee. The OpenStack Foundation only votes in Gold corporate members that have demonstrated that they will contribute code and technical expertise into the OpenStack development process. Wan is keen to help OpenStack improve and mature…
"In our marketplace, there is still a big gap between what customers want and what OpenStack has," Wan said. He added that moving forward, OpenStack will be the "glue" that holds all of Huawei’s cloud efforts together. Helping OpenStack mature is good business for Huawei, as it will help customers to more rapidly embrace the cloud….
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