Why The Data Problem Is A Good Thing For The Open Cloud Movement
June 3, 2013
Grazed from TechCrunch. Author: Alex Williams.
Piston Cloud Co-Founder Joshua McKenty says the OpenStack customer ecosystem has four emerging market segments. On one side are the customers who hire consultants to build them a cloud. On the other side are the IBM customers who will always be IBM customers.
And in the middle are two classes of customers who have one thing in common, McKenty said. They have a data problem and with that comes deeper interest in the infrastructure, be it their own or a third-party that manages it for them…
In one camp of this middle market are the customers who want a more enterprise-grade agreement, McKenty said. They want reliability and durability in the virtual machines they run. In the other camp are the companies with SaaS or cloud apps that are seeking more than what AWS offers…
Read more from the source @ http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/02/how-customers-think-about-data-changes-the-clouds-market-pie/