http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2886-openstack-takes-on-amazon-with-open-source-cloud-computing.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2886-openstack-takes-on-amazon-with-open-source-cloud-computing.html/comment-page-1#comment-386680 Jay Godse Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:30:57 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2886-openstack-takes-on-amazon-with-open-source-cloud-computing.html#comment-386680 OpenStack is an interesting idea, but I don't think that most people care. To enjoy the low incremental costs of servers that Amazon or Google enjoy, you would have to deploy more than 5000 of them (from an article I read). The only other benefit I see is being able to second-source cloud providers, and to do that, I suppose that the virtual machine format would enable one to migrate machines from one cloud provider to another. However, given that the server OS market has consolidated to a few major OS configurations, as long as you have the ability to install your software on a "standard" OS configuration, then the virtual machine format is not as important. OpenStack is an interesting idea, but I don’t think that
most people care. To enjoy the low incremental costs of servers
that Amazon or Google enjoy, you would have to deploy more than
5000 of them (from an article I read). The only other benefit I see
is being able to second-source cloud providers, and to do that, I
suppose that the virtual machine format would enable one to migrate
machines from one cloud provider to another. However, given that
the server OS market has consolidated to a few major OS
configurations, as long as you have the ability to install your
software on a “standard” OS configuration, then the virtual machine
format is not as important.

]]> http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2886-openstack-takes-on-amazon-with-open-source-cloud-computing.html/comment-page-1#comment-216417 Thorsten von Eicken Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:42:38 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2886-openstack-takes-on-amazon-with-open-source-cloud-computing.html#comment-216417 Tim, thanks for picking up the story and including an excerpt from my blog. Just to be clear, RightScale does not have "concern about Amazon taking over this market". Amazon defined and created the cloud computing market, Amazon owns the cloud computing market. Period. What we're not concerned about, but simply waiting for are "alternate sources". Cloud computing is changing the way computing is consumed. We firmly believe that computing will become a utility like electricity, that servers in private datacenters will go the way of generators: some companies will still have a few for emergency or other special purposes but the majority of computing will happen in the cloud. This future cannot happen on the shoulders of a single vendor. Tim, thanks for picking up the story and including an excerpt from my blog. Just to be clear, RightScale does not have “concern about Amazon taking over this market”. Amazon defined and created the cloud computing market, Amazon owns the cloud computing market. Period.
What we’re not concerned about, but simply waiting for are “alternate sources”. Cloud computing is changing the way computing is consumed. We firmly believe that computing will become a utility like electricity, that servers in private datacenters will go the way of generators: some companies will still have a few for emergency or other special purposes but the majority of computing will happen in the cloud. This future cannot happen on the shoulders of a single vendor.

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