Cloudstack and Eucalyptus Accelerate the pattern of open cloud Platform fade

Guide: Spent two birthday, from scratch OpenStack experienced a rapid development of two years. But opponents are also taking steps to press. This year, Cloudstack contributed to the Apache Foundation, Eucalyptus announced that the Enterprise version of all open source, all IaaS platforms are coveted the industry's highest point. OpenStack must provide a commercial version as soon as possible, the next year is particularly critical. The new IaaS pattern may be established in the next 2 or 3 years. Csdn an interview with Ezcloud's co-founder, senior technical director and chief architect Chiang Ching-kuo, who made a sharp comment on OpenStack and other IaaS platforms.

"CSDN report" in the U.S. navigation and control company during the work, Chiang Ching-field and NASA had a collaboration, talk about NASA launched the OpenStack nature has a lot of sentiment. NASA had earlier chosen to use Eucalyptus to build its own private cloud, and later instead to work with Rackspace to create OpenStack projects.

Ezcloud co-founder Xianqing

Fierce competition

"At the time, NASA's main concern was that, first of all, Eucalyptus did not meet NASA's requirements in terms of extensibility, and Eucalyptus also released two versions of the corporate and Community editions, not all of the code was open source," Chiang Ching-Yuen told Csdn, "It is worth mentioning that Even in the process of developing openstack projects with Rackspace, NASA retained the contract to purchase the Eucalyputs Enterprise version. ”

In June this year, NASA announced that it would use AWS, and NASA CIO Linda Cureton said that by transferring some of its infrastructure services to Amazon's cloud platform, we could save about $1 million a year. "(aside from the budget pressures), this shows that the OpenStack project, which has been in place for two years, has not been able to meet NASA's expectations," Chiang said, "OpenStack lacks proven success stories for large-scale deployments, NASA's choice of AWS indicates that OpenStack has not yet met the requirements of the production system. ”

Compared with other mainstream open source cloud platforms, OpenStack's strengths and weaknesses are equally prominent. Shingino told CSDN: "OpenStack function is not perfect, but the community development fastest." The Eucalyptus function is the most perfect, but the community is less active. In early April this year, the Cloudstack project was donated to the Apache Foundation, where community activism increased three times-fold in just three months. At the end of June, Eucalyptus announced that the original enterprise version of the function of all open source, this initiative will also have a significant impact on open source IaaS ecosystem. ”

As you can see, later OpenStack robbed all opponents of the limelight, not only the community more active, but also with HP, IBM, Red Hat, Dell, Intel, and almost all the IT giants support. But Cloudstack and eucalyptus through completely open source wiped out the gap with the OpenStack, community activity is also rapidly rising, competition more brutal.

The big boys ' consideration.

As a OpenStack Platinum sponsor, you need to pay 500,000 dollars a year, behind the real money, the big guys have their own strategy. "HP has the strongest support for OpenStack in four companies, IBM, Dell, HP and Intel." In the newly released OpenStack Essex version, HP's number of Engineers (19) ranked second, after the project initiator Rackspace (51). More importantly, HP launched the OpenStack-based public cloud service (HP Cloud) in the first half of this year, anticipating that its research team will continue to improve the OpenStack project and give back to the OpenStack community. Chiang Qing Wild told CSDN.

"Intel's support for OpenStack is also in place. "There were several eucalyptus-based projects inside Intel, but after joining the OpenStack Alliance, the projects were either canceled or switched on to OpenStack," Chiang said, "but Intel's research and development efforts have not been able to feed back to the community in time." In the OpenStack Essex version just released, Intel's name did not appear in the top 20 contributors. ”

"IBM has strategic expectations for the OpenStack project, but it is still in its infancy in engineering." In OpenStack-related mailing lists and forum discussions, information from IBM is often asked about how to install and configure, rather than how to help others solve specific problems. In the newly released OpenStack Essex version, the IBM name also did not appear in the top 20 contributors, "Chiang Ching Wild said:" IBM's support for OpenStack, is now more of a line position, rather than specific research and development input. “

"Dell's attitude towards OpenStack is ambiguous, it can choose to switch from UEC to OpenStack, or switch from OpenStack to other open source IaaS solutions." The name of the Dell company is largely not found in the mailing lists and forum discussions related to OpenStack. Chiang Qing Wild told CSDN.

Domestic situation

At present, a considerable number of enterprises in the country are investigating OpenStack, but the OpenStack deployed to production systems are not many enterprises, the OpenStack to improve the team is very few. It is worth mentioning that Sina's team has made a substantial improvement to the OpenStack project, and actively feedback its improvement to the OpenStack community. "At the moment we observe that few companies are giving back to the community, probably because they don't have the conditions to give back to the community," Chiang Ching-Qing said, "Considering that the OpenStack project is at a very early stage, the research on the OpenStack project itself is a support for OpenStack." ”

Multiple cloud platforms will coexist

Although OpenStack is a leader in community activism, it is supported by many big bosses. But Shingino said that from the current development of open source IaaS ecosystem, it is too early to conclude that OpenStack will become an industrial standard for IaaS.

"There will still be many implementations of IaaS in the future, and OpenStack is just one of those implementations," he said. OpenStack will not become the mainstream implementation, depending on whether the OpenStack can be in a short period of time to achieve or even more than other scenarios. No matter how high the market share of OpenStack, OpenStack itself will not become a standard. The standard would be a cloud interoperability interface specification similar to the AWS API, Occi, and CDMI. "(Text/Bao)

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