Comments on: Basho joins Apache Cloudstack effort http://gigaom.com/2012/09/05/basho-joins-apache-cloudstack-effort/ Sun, 26 May 2013 00:50:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Barb Darrow http://gigaom.com/2012/09/05/basho-joins-apache-cloudstack-effort/#comment-977929 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:27:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=559395#comment-977929 Thanks John. corrected. Don’t know what I (or spell check) was thinking

]]> By: joearnold http://gigaom.com/2012/09/05/basho-joins-apache-cloudstack-effort/#comment-977173 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:10:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=559395#comment-977173 What is distinguishing a project like OpenStack Swift vs. the alternatives are two things.

First — proven, production-scale deployments that have an established track record. Rackspace, KT, Internap, SoftLayer and many others are all running in production. API compatibility is a lot different than architectural equivalence. WIth OpenStack Swift an operator can deploy the same system that is deployed elsewhere at scale.

Second — No lock-in. Basho is only contributing some of the code and they is only a single company that supports it. OpenStack Swift is supported by many vendors, which means that companies can switch to another vendor without needing to change their application.

I’d like to see that published case study of the telecom. — That’s straight-up FUD to advance their proprietary system.

-Joe Arnold
SwiftStack.com

]]> By: John Dickinson http://gigaom.com/2012/09/05/basho-joins-apache-cloudstack-effort/#comment-977040 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:41:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=559395#comment-977040 To clarify, the OpenStack Object Storage project is “Swift”, not “Swifte”.

http://swift.openstack.org

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