Five Things OpenStack Needs to Do … Now.
At the most recent OpenStack SV 2015 event, I was invited to speak and provide a viewpoint on OpenStack’s future. The year before in 2014 I gave a talk entitled “Lie of the Benevolent Dictator” which spawned the Product Working Group for OpenStack. A blog posting entitled The Future of OpenStack is Now, 2015 in […]
A CoprHD Status Update
I wanted to provide you a big update on Project CoprHD and a mea culpa. As many of you know, EMC launched CoprHD during EMC World 2015 and made the code generally available on June 5th. Unfortunately, we are learning the hard way about proper follow through when open sourcing a project. As you probably […]
Microsoft and Docker doesn’t make enough sense
Microsoft and Docker doesn’t make enough sense: Over at Fortune, Barb Darrow and Jonathan Vanian speculate on rumours that Microsoft might be sniffing around containerisation champion Docker. Docker has, of course, denied the rumours. But, more importantly, the acquisition just doesn’t make enough sense to justify the multi-billion dollar valuation. The project is open source. The […]
State of the Stack v4 – OpenStack In All It’s Glory
I gave the seminal State of the Stack presentation at the OpenStack Summit. This is the 4th major iteration of the deck. This particular version took a very different direction for several reasons: Most of the audience is well steeped in OpenStack and providing the normal “speeds and feeds” seemed pedantic There were critical unaddressed […]
OpenStack doesn’t scale. Allegedly.
OpenStack doesn’t scale. Allegedly.: Shock news, from a company that wants paid to help you handle complex OpenStack deployments. Scaling is hard. Scaling anything is harder than running it on a server or two. This is not surprising. Most OpenStack deployments tend to be relatively small. This isn’t surprising either. Most comparable public/hybrid cloud deployments tend […]
Vancouver OpenStack Summit – EMC Federation Presentations
Voting for presentations at the Vancouver OpenStack Summit is now open. Please help us by voting on the sessions submitted by EMC Federation speakers along with any other sessions that cover topics that might interest you. Please vote at your … Continue reading →
The Future of OpenStack’s EC2 APIs
Recently, some more talk was had around the future of the EC2 APIs, beginning with some comments on the openstack-operators mailing list, followed by threads on the dev and foundation mailing list. This ultimately resulted in a suggested commit to officially “deprecate” the EC2 APIs from Nova. This commit was rejected, but make sure you […]
“Vanilla OpenStack” Doesn’t Exist and Never Will
One of the biggest failures of OpenStack to date is expectation setting. New potential OpenStack users and customers come into OpenStack and expect to find: A uniform, monolithic cloud operating system (like Linux) Set of well-integrated and interoperable components Interoperability with their own vendors of choice in hardware, software, and public cloud Unfortunately, none of […]
The Future of OpenStack is Now, 2015
This year will be a crucial year in OpenStack history. This is the year we fix much of how OpenStack is structured or die trying. By structure, I mean the vision, the project structure, the integrated release cycle, and the board and TC’s role in driving direction. First, stop and read this blog posting by […]
My Endorsements for the 2015 OpenStack Individual Director Elections
If you are voting this year in the individual director elections, and I sincerely hope you are, I would appreciate it if you would give special consideration to the following candidates and a super brief “why” Kavit Munshi – international … Continue reading →
What’s in a name in open source?
What does community mean to you?
Community is an overloaded word, it can mean anything. Community can mean just people who use your product. Or maybe it’s those who build your product, or maybe it’s the business partners who are using it. Or maybe it’s…
Keys to turn your open source project into a business
Broadly speaking, there are two types of open source software. The free software, which has a reciprocity requirement in it. Open source software which doesn’t.
Open source history, present day, and licensing
This article is part of my talk, Open-Source Business Models. You can see the full transcript and the video of my talk on Heavybit.com. My name is Marten Mickos and I’m the CEO of Eucalyptus Systems. As Tom mentioned, I was the CEO of MySQL for eight years. I was de facto the only CEO […]
The Roadmap to ‘Hadoop in the Cloud’
The Twitter ball started rolling again just now. Matt Asay posed an interesting question about Forrester suggesting Hadoop isn’t a great fit for the cloud. (Even) without context Vijay Vijayasankar and I started firing off questions and answers which inevitable led to my promise of writing down the transition plan for it Here it is I’ll start bottom-up, from […]
Is PaaS dying?
The ‘platform’ tier in the middle of cloud computing’s architecture is being squeezed, folded and reshaped beyond recognition. Even with continued investment, can it survive the transformative pressures forcing down upon it from the software/application layer above, or the apparently inexorable upward movement from the infrastructure layer upon which it rests? To look at recent […]
