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NETWORK WORLD:Gartner report threw cold water on uber-hyped OpenStack project
A scathing report about OpenStack from research firm Gartner warns businesses to beware of considerable hype and says misconceptions about the open source cloud computing project are leading to "dangerous myths" that are impacting IT adoption and investments.
OpenStack is a nascent technology driven by a group of self-serving vendors who are pushing their own agendas over the usability
of the cloud management platform, argues Lydia Leong, the author of the report
and a research VP at Gartner who focuses on cloud computing. As
OpenStack hype continues to build, she says vendors are associating
themselves with the project for marketing reasons, but are reticent
about contributing significant resources to the broader
goals of the project. Fragmentation created by the amalgamation of
various interests undermines the interoperability among
OpenStack-powered clouds and the ability of third-party support
groups to manage OpenStack distributions.
OpenStack backers, in response, disagree. They specifically point to the project's momentum in recent weeks, including its
launch of the OpenStack Foundation, the release of the latest OpenStack code, named Folsom, and organizers gearing up for the project's semi-annual OpenStack Summit this month to plan future development of OpenStack.
Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, says the report "touches on a lot of different points," and
said many of the criticisms could apply broadly to other cloud computing projects. "We're early on in this technology shift,"
he says.
Below are some of the assertions that Leong makes and the responses by OpenStack officials.
Leong: "Hype around open-source CMPs (cloud management
platforms) is causing some customers to make unfounded assumptions that
may
lead to poor sourcing decisions when they are choosing a CMP to build
a private cloud, or when buying cloud IaaS from a service
provider. Some people have been led to believe that because OpenStack
is open source, it is an open and widely-adopted standard,
with broad interoperability and freedom from commercial interests. In
reality, OpenStack is dominated by commercial interests,
as it is a business strategy for the vendors involved, not the effort
of a community of altruistic individual contributors."
OpenStack: OpenStack officials say "hype" is in the eye of the
beholder. "We prefer to think of it as excitement," says OpenStack
Foundation
COO Mark Collier, who's also held the title of Rackspace VP of
business and corporate development. Standards, he says, is
a "loaded word," and a project like OpenStack could only achieve such
as a status through adoption, which he says is one of
the OpenStack Foundation's primary focuses. The recently formed
Foundation will serve as a uniting body that will bring the
various interests within the project together for the good of
OpenStack, he adds.
FULL STORY (2012) - http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/100112-openstack-gartner-262925.html
Stack wars: OpenStack v. CloudStack v. Eucalyptus(2013)
OpenStack has the buzz, CloudStack has the bucks, Eucalyptus has the bonds with Amazon
Network World - OpenStack -- co-founded by Rackspace and NASA in 2010 -- certainly has the buzz, what with partnerships with AT&T, HP and IBM, to name a few, all of which have promised to use OpenStack as the base for their private cloud offerings.
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CloudStack boasts $1 billion worth of business transactions annually running across their clouds since Citrix released the code (Citrix picked up the technology in its 2011, $200 million purchase of Cloud.com) into the Apache open source realm in April 2012.
And Eucalyptus -- the longest-standing open source project of the three -- is banking on its very tight technical ties to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to convince enterprises to go the hybrid route, running their private clouds on the Eucalyptus stack and seamlessly bursting into the Amazon public cloud when necessary.
Those are the strategic battle cries as the factions spar for positioning as the open source infrastructure as a service (IaaS) stack most tapped into for building enterprise private clouds.
According to a study on data center expansion plans by Campos Research & Analysis and paid for by data center solution provider Digital Realty Trust, three in five respondents -- 300 IT decision makers at large corporations in North America were interviewed for the study – said that building a private cloud was a primary impetus for their future data center build-out plans.
According to a new forecast report by IDC, worldwide spending on hosted private cloud (HPC) will grow to be more than $24 billion by 2016.
FULL STORY : http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2013/enterprise3/060313-ecs3-open-stack-269899.html
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