HP Abandons OpenStack Public Cloud - CTO Coffee Chat
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Ice Cube's hauser from the CTO advisor calm talking a little HP he lien an HP public cloud and what does that mean so joint thank you for joining me my latest coffee chat it's early in the morning so I can go ahead and have a cup of coffee not worry about waking up at four o'clock in the morning thinking about HP superdome cpu architecture this happened recently so let's talk a little bit HP Helion and them exiting the public cloud space given though over you overview
HP he'll ian is the marketing term that HP uses for all their cloud services so it doesn't matter if you're talking about private cloud based on vmware vsphere or some other technologies that HP has acquired I think we might forget that HP acne acquired eucalyptus some time ago so that you can lift this brand is under HP HP also obviously has a huge private cloud business a relatively big they didn't meet that they weren't big enough to make the Gartner Magic Quadrant for x86 server virtualization
which included some other HP or some other OpenStack players so that's pretty interesting and then of course the public cloud offering that they just recently announced that they are sunsetting the end of January 2016 what does this mean for the industry so if we remember a couple of years ago when OpenStack first came on the scene one of the big pushes was the embracing the idea that you can use OpenStack as both your private cloud and your public cloud which should create the perfect hybrid cloud
solution there would be a ton of OpenStack public cloud providers that could compete against the aw essence of the world so that the industry could have plenty of options when it came to enterprise level cloud so the same API is that you use to consume your cloud resources internally you could use those same ap is to consume your public house solutions so you know in theory the perfect cloud solution is like having private 80 or private ews and just extending out to that cloud so what
does it mean now that there's really only one major player in the OpenStack world and that this is again we're talking about public cloud and that's Rackspace Rackspace's the lone survivor from that rush to offer OpenStack as a public option I question exactly opens I question Rackspace's commitment to it if you remember last year around this time during vmworld Rackspace made a big push to double back down on VMware hosted vmware is still a huge huge portion of their business and they refocused on that they've
recently announced that they're going to resell AWS something I thought that they should did a long time ago at their fanatical support to AWS as an overlay and then survivor off those martyrs versus competing with AWS imagery what does this mean for hybrid towel solutions if you are considering a openstack cloud before for your private cloud does that automatically mean that OpenStack isn't a contender because you don't have a path to hire to the public cloud not necessarily true there's plenty of options for integrating your
private cloud no matter what it's based on it could be based on VMware vCloud director for all intents and purposes and extending that out to a third-party solution there's plenty of solutions such as emcees hybrid cloud federated solutions that they offer a company such as blue box and platform 9 as they mature today they don't offer such a service to offer hybrid cloud but the low solutions will continue to mature and provide some type of gateway or proxy to solutions AWS sewer and whatnot what I'm
more concerned about is the lack of options in public cloud basically we only have two maybe three real options when it comes to large-scale enterprise clouds that's AWS obviously Marcus off observe and then somewhere behind there is way way at the bottom is Google's come to cute stacked I thought was really hoping that the OpenStack movement would increase the total number of cloud providers that could provide solutions at scale the skills that large fortune 500 companies need but if you're a fortune 500 and you're looking
at large footprint clouds you only have two maybe three real options and I'm going to limit at 2 2 2 i'm really not i'm really not convinced that google is serious about enterprise cloud that's it for this coffee chat will talk to you guys next time you can follow me on the twitters i'm at CTU advisor and on the blog I'm the CTO at visor calm and check out the podcast I do a weekly CTO chat that goes a little bit longer than it's maybe about
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