http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/lew-moorman-talks-anso-labs-openstack-and-cloud-revenue/ Mon, 20 May 2013 01:31:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/lew-moorman-talks-anso-labs-openstack-and-cloud-revenue/#comment-621354 Tue, 03 May 2011 20:15:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=297013#comment-621354 [...] is betting that a robust OpenStack ecosystem of providers will provide a formidable alternative to Amazon Web Services and other proprietary [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/lew-moorman-talks-anso-labs-openstack-and-cloud-revenue/#comment-611043 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:58:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=297013#comment-611043 [...] tools. Already, Dell has acknowledged it will resell Windows Azure, and Lew Moorman told me that Rackspace is in talks with Microsoft about doing the [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/lew-moorman-talks-anso-labs-openstack-and-cloud-revenue/#comment-606234 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:24:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=297013#comment-606234 [...] asked Rackspace about this possibility before — most recently during a discussion with Rackspace Cloud President Lew Moorman — and it has always alluded to this possibility without coming right out and acknowledging [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/lew-moorman-talks-anso-labs-openstack-and-cloud-revenue/#comment-603918 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:12:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=297013#comment-603918 [...] Rackspace Cloud President Lew Moorman suggested here last month, Rackspace is opening up the OpenStack board to participation by a greater number of contributors. [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2011/02/11/lew-moorman-talks-anso-labs-openstack-and-cloud-revenue/#comment-599508 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:44:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=297013#comment-599508 [...] Although large vendors such as IBM and HP have their own cloud consultancy businesses, there aren’t a lot of third parties providing this type of service for large-scale cloud deployments. But it’s an important business — despite vendors claims to that effect, clouds aren’t always as easy as plug-and-play, especially if organizations want to achieve efficiency levels on par with those experienced by Amazon Web Services and other leading cloud providers. The open source OpenStack platform also provides a potentially rich source of income for Cloudscaling — as its Internap win illustrates — because although the open-source cloud computing software is attracting lots of attention, it doesn’t have any formal support mechanism (although Rackspace has suggested it will get into that racket). [...]

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