Eucalyptus, CloudStack, OpenStack and OpenNebula: A Tale of Two Cloud Models. Over the last five years, since the release of the first open-source version of OpenNebula in March 2008, we have been involved in many presentations, discussions and meetings where people wanted to know how OpenNebula compares with the rest of open-source Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs), mostly with Eucalyptus and OpenStack.
The most common understanding is that all CMPs are competing in the same market, trying to fill the same gap. Consequently, people jump to the wrong conclusion that after years of a fierce competition, there will only be one winner, a single open-source CMP in the market. However, as discussed by Joe Brockmeier in his post “It’s Not Highlander, There Can Be More Than One Open Source Cloud”, there is room in the market for several open-source CMPs that, addressing different cloud niches, will fit together into a broad open cloud ecosystem. Two Different Cloud Models Yes, we know, we said that we wanted to focus only on open-source CMPs. The Stack Wars: OpenStack vs. CloudStack. The industry is moving up the stack.
We're migrating from a focus on Layer 1, physical, to Layer 7, applications. Software is king in the future of IT--applications and services are what matter. Cloud is what we've termed it for now, and when discussing cloud, open and standard are key discussions. Open source is often touted, as it gives IT environments control of their own code and a community of support. Open source also liberates customers from licensing costs and provides customization and flexibility. Both CloudStack and OpenStack offer an open source software platform for IaaS.
Stack Wars: Playing All Year At A Cloud Near You. Introduction The recent Hong Kong Design Summit has triggered a lot of debate about the current state of OpenStack.
Some of the best pieces have come from Alessandro Perilli, Geoff Arnold and Michael Cote. The question that inevitably gets asked within these conversations is whether OpenStack is a viable alternative to cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS). This is a bit of an awkward comparison between a service (AWS) and a product that enables a service (OpenStack). The underlying question being examined here is whether OpenStack, or anyone else for that matter, can pose a threat to AWS in the cloud operating system (OS) market.
This discussion is really about cloud enablement. Stack Wars: Playing All Year At A Cloud Near You. CloudStack, OpenStack, AWS-stack : Which stack? 婉兮清扬 » CY13-Q4 Community Analysis — OpenStack vs OpenNebula vs Eucalyptus vs CloudStack. This article is an update version of my previous article CY13-Q3 Community Analysis — OpenStack vs OpenNebula vs Eucalyptus vs CloudStack. Readers who are intested in further discussions please contact me via email at the above-mentioned address. A Chinese version of this article is published at the same time, which can be found at CY13-Q4 OpenStack, OpenNebula, Eucalyptus, CloudStack社区活跃度比较. This community analysis project was initiated in CY11-Q4, and this particular report is the 9th quarterly report being published since.
The author served shortly as the Director of Customer Success in China for Eucalyptus Systems Inc during October 2012 and July 2013. War of the Stacks: OpenStack vs. CloudStack vs. vCloud vs. Amazon EC2 « Torsten Volk. When it comes to cloud technologies, discussions often get passionate or even heated.
It’s all about the “war of the stacks”, where much Cool Aid is dispensed to get customers to buy into the respective cult. This discussion reminds me of the old days of enterprise IT, where everything was about technology instead of business value. You either bought one thing or the other and then you were locked in for a half decade. Dark times. Today, the game is a different one. Joyent co-founder on why AWS will win, OpenStack will flatline and connected cars will (hopefully) be zombie-proof.
Jason Hoffman has never been short on opinions. He wasn’t as the co-founder and CTO of cloud computing provider Joyent, he wasn’t as a fixture at our numerous Structure conferences over the years (by the way, Structure Data is coming up in March), and he isn’t in his new role as vice president of corporate strategy and portfolio management at Ericsson. He proved the latter during an appearance on our Structure Show podcast this week, discussing everything from the cloud market he used to live and breathe to the connected car market his currently employer is doggedly pursuing.
It was one of the most fun interviews we’ve done and possibly the most fun I’ve ever had talking cloud computing. Here are the highlights, but you’ll probably want to listen to the whole thing, which also features a great breakdown of the state of mobile networking. Download this episode Subscribe in iTunes The Structure Show RSS Feed What Amazon Web Services does right “Hats off to AWS, still,” Hoffman said. A Game of Stacks : OpenStack vs. CloudStack. Several organizations are now investing in cloud computing because they have realized it has the ability to promote rapid growth while at the same time reducing the speed and costs of application deployment.
