{"id":481814,"date":"2010-03-28T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=108819"},"modified":"2010-03-28T11:00:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T15:00:27","slug":"for-open-cloud-computing-look-inside-your-data-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/481814","title":{"rendered":"For Open Cloud Computing, Look Inside Your Data Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For all the talk about openness and interoperability in cloud computing, both public-cloud and private-cloud providers still operate very much in their own silos.<\/p>\n

Amazon, Rackspace, Google, Microsoft are all doing wonderful things \u2014 but they\u2019re doing so largely within their own environments. And while (most) data center vendors can\u2019t offer users complete vertically integrated cloud stacks, they\u2019re more than happy to lock users into their product lines as much as possible and form\u00a0strong partnerships<\/a> in areas they don\u2019t play.<\/p>\n

However, the writing on the wall suggests that, from the customer\u2019s perspective, things might be changing for the better — especially when it comes to internal clouds.<\/p>\n

Two of the best examples, as I discuss in my weekly column over at GigaOM Pro<\/a>, are Red Hat and Eucalyptus. Both open-source companies have increasingly<\/a> popular<\/a> products that compete well with the big dogs \u2014 VMware, Microsoft, Citrix and Amazon. Red\u00a0Hat\u2019s\u00a0continuously high profits in the face of the economic recession<\/a> show customer confidence that might follow it into the cloud when it starts pushing such a migration.\u00a0Eucalytpus appears to be doing strong business as well. According to reports, the company, which has raised $5.5 million to this point, is\u00a0now valued at $100 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Openness is picking up on the hardware side, too.\u00a0Dell, for one, has been touting its open approach to picking components, and it bolstered its argument with a\u00a0slew of cloud announcements<\/a> this week, as well as\u00a0InfoWorld test results<\/a> that show Dell blades performing on par with those from market leaders. At this point, a standards-based approach anywhere in the stack should be welcome: While open standards have long been a rallying cry of cloud commentators, reports from the recent Cloud Connect event<\/a> suggest we can expect to wait a long while until meaningful software standards actually emerge.<\/p>\n

How the internal-cloud market will play out is anybody\u2019s guess, with systems and software vendors all trying to establish themselves as cloud-computing leaders. \u00a0What\u2019s clear, however, is that open source and open standards will have a place within cloud data centers at levels currently not present in the public-cloud sphere.<\/p>\n

Subscribe to GigaOM Pro<\/a> to read the full article and view a subscriber-only webcast of the GigaOM Bunker Session on open source and cloud computing technologies, to be held March 31, from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. (PST).<\/em><\/p>\n

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For all the talk about openness and interoperability in cloud computing, both public-cloud and private-cloud providers still operate very much in their own silos. Amazon, Rackspace, Google, Microsoft are all doing wonderful things \u2014 but they\u2019re doing so largely within their own environments. And while (most) data center vendors can\u2019t offer users complete vertically integrated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}