Comments on: How OpenStack upended the private cloud market overnight

By: Aali

Aali — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:22:48 +0000

Happy to see Abiquo mentioned here; a fairly young and innovative company. I’ve been following their progress for some time now with interest and as I understand it they’ve integrated with more partners and scored big in the States by snagging CariNet as a client http://www.abiquo.com/2011/04/13/abiquo-selected-carinet-enable-global-cloud-services-offering/

By: Tim Wessels

Tim Wessels — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 02:59:09 +0000

Well, the question is how many cloudstacks will the market support? Among the large venue public providers we have AWS, Google and Microsoft. OpenStack based large venue public providers include Rackspace, IBM and HP. Some OpenStack distributors have focused on the private cloud like Piston. VMware will likely carve out its share of the private cloud and hybrid cloud market mostly based on its existing virtualization customers. CloudStack and Citrix CloudPlatform may become significant boutique players. Cloudstack operating in both private and public cloud markets with CloudPlatform leveraging the Citrix brand and marketing alongside a well-developed partner channel. And Eucalyptus operating in private cloud with hybrid links to AWS could stay around for awhile. Outside of academic circles it is not clear that OpenNebula will generate significant commercial interest. In the long term open source cloudstacks built will open standards will represent a substantial percentage of the public and private cloud market. The questions is just how many of them will prove to be commercially viable five years from now?

By: natishalom

natishalom — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:20:04 +0000

A note on GigaSpaces side
We have strong support for OpenStack through Cloudify which is essentially the equivalent of Amazon recent acquisition OpsWork into Openstack.

As for Scott note on case study – i’d recommend looking into the Carrier Cloud case study here: http://natishalom.typepad.com/nati_shaloms_blog/2013/03/carrier-grade-cloudpaas.html

By: Scott Herson

Scott Herson — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:42:27 +0000

It’s still very early in this sector. Most of the companies above are not selling much and are just living off their VC funds. Openstack itself is still looking for large scale production case studies. IT vendors are “leveraging” Openstack but where are the customers? The consolidation will continue however with more “acqui-hires” and buyouts to control competitive landscape.

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:16:07 +0000

Duly noted. I wasn’t actually suggesting a code migration, just the ability to launch on Cloud Foundry, as you noted. But I also erroneously linked to a post about OpenStack support, so it was irrelevant to this particular point anyhow.

By: Sacha Labourey

Sacha Labourey — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:54:33 +0000

Derrick,

One correction on your PaaS comment near the end of your article. I think your link to the CloudBees/CloudFoundry announcement is misleading. We are not “Jumping on Board” any one community and haven’t changed anything wrt our RUNTIME PaaS strategy. This announcement is around our ability to deploy applications from our Jenkins-based Continuous Cloud Deployment (CCD) platform to Cloud Foundry (i.e. build&test at CloudBees, deploy to CF). We had announced something similar a few months back with Google App Engine: http://gigaom.com/2012/10/04/google-app-engine-taps-jenkins-for-continuous-integration/

This is around PaaS openess (http://bobbickel.blogspot.ch/2013/02/clouds-introduce-new-era-of-openness.html) and the ability to chose vendors, this is certainly NOT about moving CloudBees to a Cloud Foundry codebase (neither to a GAE codebase for that matter…)

Thanks,

Sacha
CloudBees, Inc.

By: Reuven Cohen

Reuven Cohen — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:26:58 +0000

The writing was on the wall.

By: Vinod Shintre

Vinod Shintre — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 05:21:34 +0000

problem is that it’s also adding more confusion to the already complex cloud decision life cycle. but hey great to have multiple options to assess what works best.

By: jhesr

jhesr — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:02:35 +0000

I distinctly remember the conversation between Chris Kemp and the other two in the photograph above.

Chris told them that OpenStack would crush them and he was right. Almost the entire IT sector is behind OpenStack. If you aren’t a major player already like AWS, then you will either join OpenStack or remain a niche player.

By: jhesr

jhesr — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:59:35 +0000

Yup, especially if both Cisco and HP are behind it. Cisco has huge networking market share and HP in second place is larger than like the next 9 largest competitors combined.

The rumors I have seen are that both Cisco and HP are collaborating on the Daylight project. I have also read that the project will screw over Nicira. I think Cisco is pretty ticked off with their “good partner” EMC…