Four key issues in the development of OpenStack

Two months ago in July, the OpenStack project officially started. And up until now, it has 183 companies involved, and its community activity has outpaced Eucalyptus and CloudStack, with huge potential for growth. But at the same time OpenStack must see its own shortcomings, in the critical period of the third year of development, OpenStack commercial version is ready? What is it going to do with Eucalyptus and CloudStack? On October 15, at the upcoming OpenStack Summit, Barb Darrow, a veteran journalist with Gigaom, conducted a thorough analysis of the eight issues related to OpenStack and confirmed the truth.

1. What is the role of IBM in OpenStack?

The blue giants did not join OpenStack until last spring, relatively late. But people want to know more about when IBM can deliver OpenStack-based clouds. IBM has long been a strong supporter of open source technology, and now that IBM has joined the OpenStack Foundation as its "platinum member." Angel Diaz, vice president of software standards and cloud at IBM, said that IBM's support for OpenStack is also sparing no effort. But rely on IBM's strong software and hardware capabilities, in theory, make an OpenStack-based products, I believe it is not a big problem, but IBM's performance on OpenStack seems to be "thunder, rain." Red Hat, which joins the OpenStack Foundation over the same period with IBM, released a preview of the much-anticipated OpenStack-based cloud platform distribution system in August of this year. Where are IBM's OpenStack products?

Who else will join Jonathan Bryce's Dream Team?

Bryce, founder of Rackspace Cloud, has helped many OpenStack "rookie" projects and has been an Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation this September. He pulled Lauren Sell into the board of directors, but who else except him? VP Mark Collier at Rackspace has been shying away from "whether Rackspace will dominate OpenStack's growth," even though the OpenStack Foundation's Director is Alan Clark from SUSE, and vice president Lew Tucker from Cisco.

3. What will Cloudscaling do?

OpenStack is definitely not just dedicated to large companies, it is also very attractive to young, fledgling companies, including Piston Cloud and the establishment of 6 years of Cloudscaling, Cloudscaling joined OpenStack two years ago. We look forward to Randy Bias, co-founder and CTO of Cloudscaling, who is a good advocate for OpenStack and Cloudscaling is also set to release the company's next strategy at the San Diego summit.

4. OpenStack will become the field of cloud computing Linux or Unix?

OpenStack is impressed by the strong support of many leading IT vendors, and has 5,600 individual members. But equally impressive, there are numerous issues: There are also competitions among many foundations. For example, HP, IBM and Cisco have come up with slightly different implementation of the standard what to do? Although many supporters have repeatedly said that enlightened self-interest drive will prevent this from happening, but things happen.

OpenStack is an all-encompassing, just like Linux, designed to build a core around which all software vendors work. OpenStack has a number of subprojects to provide agile management of the various resources (such as computing power, storage, networking) in the cloud computing platform. Although these projects have just started, they are ambitious. On the other hand, OpenStack also provides support for virtualization technology. Mirantis, an OpenStack consultant who has deployed 25 OpenStack projects, said the real thing about OpenStack is that it creates a framework for standards and APIs that allows users to build cloud computing solutions. In the past, the Linux operating system grew from a toy to a solid server operating system for a decade, and OpenStack took two years to create a cloud in the cloud. I do not know the future, OpenStack will create the same legend as Linux? We will wait and see.