Dell Takes On Proprietary Clouds With An OpenStack Solution
Last week at OSCON 2011, Dell unveiled Dell OpenStack Cloud, its OpenStack based solution to go against the likes of IBM targeting both the enterprise and service provider markets. While talking about Dell’s attempts against the unified computing efforts by IBM, Cisco, HP and Oracle, I highlighted how Dell is taking a more “open” approach [...]
OSCON Week: Two Approaches To Enterprise PaaS
This is yet another video from OSCON 2011 talking about cloud providers with open source cred. In this post, I am going to present two different PaaS providers taking two different approaches to offering PaaS targeting the enterprises. Both these offering falls into what I call as Federated PaaS offerings but VMware takes a more [...]
OSCON Week: Piston Cloud Computing, Redhat Of OpenStack
Earlier this month, Piston Cloud Computing Inc. was launched with $4.5 Million funding from True Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Divergent Ventures and others. It was founded by lead architect at NASA’s Nebula Cloud infrastructure, Joshua McKenty, along with Chris MacGown, formerly from Slicehost. Piston Computing is a typical example of what an open source project [...]
OSCON Week: Eucalyptus Systems
I was at OSCON 2011 for two days. Like last year, OpenStack was garnering the media attention this year too. I thought I should check out the other open source cloud platform (open core, to be precise), Eucalyptus Systems, and see how they are doing. I spoke with Brady Murray, Director of Alliances at Eucalyptus [...]
