Comments on: The IT world’s love-hate relationship with OpenStack http://gigaom.com/2012/08/07/the-it-worlds-love-hate-relationship-with-openstack/ Mon, 20 May 2013 21:58:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: bleh http://gigaom.com/2012/08/07/the-it-worlds-love-hate-relationship-with-openstack/#comment-887880 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:41:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=550179#comment-887880 blehh spam

]]> By: Boo http://gigaom.com/2012/08/07/the-it-worlds-love-hate-relationship-with-openstack/#comment-881524 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:06:14 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=550179#comment-881524 I love the smell of fresh FUD in the late evening.

]]> By: Keith Townsend http://gigaom.com/2012/08/07/the-it-worlds-love-hate-relationship-with-openstack/#comment-880918 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 01:44:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=550179#comment-880918 This inspired a post of my own http://virtualizedgeek.com/2012/08/08/does-the-enterprise-have-a-use-for-openstack-and-iaas/
At some point these services are going to have to build platforms that are friendly to the non-development crowd if they want the type of mass they are looking to acheive.

]]> By: David Mytton http://gigaom.com/2012/08/07/the-it-worlds-love-hate-relationship-with-openstack/#comment-880888 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 01:24:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=550179#comment-880888 Keith is right that the current form is more of a developer platform, shown by the fact that although eBay are using it, it’s within their R&D division. However, that Rackspace are using it in production for their cloud products does lend some credibility to the project.

But when comparing to Amazon, there are potentially conflicting use cases which means they don’t necessarily compete. Openstack is all about using your own resources and creating a private cloud. If you run out of hardware resources, you still have to go to Dell and buy new physical devices. Amazon is scalable on demand as a public cloud, and has benefits and disadvantages which go with that. If anything, you may even want to link the two systems so you can quickly add capacity within AWS but provisioned through Openstack.

]]> By: Derrick Harris http://gigaom.com/2012/08/07/the-it-worlds-love-hate-relationship-with-openstack/#comment-880606 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:55:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=550179#comment-880606 It’s an OpenStack cloud. This story gives a little more detail: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/exclusive-ebay-puts-openstack-work-199377

]]> By: abadani http://gigaom.com/2012/08/07/the-it-worlds-love-hate-relationship-with-openstack/#comment-880599 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:50:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=550179#comment-880599 ““I think Amazon has an advantage over the open source alternatives because [it] only [has] to answer to one boss — and that’s Jeff Bezos,” he said.”

Are we still debating this? If this were true, you’d still only have Solaris, HPUX, AIX, IIS and not Linux or Apache Web Server. Admittedly I am biased since I work for Red Hat but IMHO the advantages of open source and its durability are well established now.

]]> By: foobar http://gigaom.com/2012/08/07/the-it-worlds-love-hate-relationship-with-openstack/#comment-880593 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:45:56 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=550179#comment-880593 How about some QA before posting an article. The link to “How about eBay, which just detailed its private OpenStack cloud on Monday” takes you to the story about Nicira.

]]> By: Derrick Harris http://gigaom.com/2012/08/07/the-it-worlds-love-hate-relationship-with-openstack/#comment-879370 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:52:21 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=550179#comment-879370 Just reporting what’s going on, good and bad. And I absolutely didn’t bomb Citrix leaving. As I noted then, CloudStack is a legit product and it very well could catch on.

]]> By: abhishek http://gigaom.com/2012/08/07/the-it-worlds-love-hate-relationship-with-openstack/#comment-879205 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:17:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=550179#comment-879205 Wonder who pays Om Malik to write rubbish story every now and then about Openstack. Seems like they get money every week to write against Openstack. One of the most biased site i have ever came across.

Initially you reported Rackspace hijacking whole project now you are saying there are too many backers. I still remember how you folks bombed Citrix leaving Openstack community.

Mr. Om Malik grow up and stop lobbying for a particular vendor. :)

]]> By: Sakku http://gigaom.com/2012/08/07/the-it-worlds-love-hate-relationship-with-openstack/#comment-878273 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:03:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=550179#comment-878273 CloudStack – No lock in and a mature product. Both the things you want.
A must try.

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