Enterprise IT and OpenStack game: waiting for a move

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is expected to attract large IT departments and high-performance computing environments through advocacy, and open Source project OpenStack released its cloud OS more scalable and "pluggable" versions. The

Essex contains 150 new features, including the first mature version of OpenStack Dashboard, which allows administrators to access, prepare, and automate cloud-based resources through self-service portals; OpenStack Object Storage its ability to tighten cloud security, and document preservation policy consistent to terminate the object; OpenStack Compute, code-named Nova, with the product's control Panel and authentication function.

"The two most notable themes in all of our features are scalability and pluggable," Jonathan Bryce, president of the OpenStack Project and co-founder of Rackspace Cloud. "One of these features is refactoring the Control Panel, which allows users to manage OpenStack using a web-based interface." You will see more plug-ins (designed for control panels) that provide additional functionality, such as monitoring and server management tools, "Bryce added.

Another project in preparation is called Quantum, which is expected to be released in the Folsom of OpenStack this fall and is designed to attract larger sectors. Quantum is an automated network management system that allows administrators to set up virtual LANs and contains a large number of top-level enterprise hardware, such as Cisco.

Although OpenStack enhances enterprise-class performance for its products, some industry observers point out that the technology is widely used among large departments remains to be seen. They think the technology is not ready for deployment in a production environment in the next year or two.

I had a conversation with the person who used it, but most people told me that they thought it would take 18 months for the technology to be used in a production environment, "said Bill Claybrook, president of New River market research." They think OpenStack is not yet ready for serious cloud computing applications. "

Some users also postpone deploying OpenStack in their departments, but the short-term value is seen in the department based on past experience with open source products and technologies.

"I see people are more going to use the most strategically openstack technology, these people are interested in open source cloud and the IT department likes something cheap." OpenStack should become popular, "Eugene Lee explained, a senior system administrator at a large bank," we're not going to start using it now, but Iare interested in some direction of their new function. "

The recent decision of OpenStack is potentially delaying the adoption rate of the OpenStack, a top cloud provider who has stopped continuing to support cloud-based software. Instead, Citrix plans to devote more time and energy to its own cloudstack products, and last year Si Jie acquired cloud.com.

"It appears that Si-Jie has decided to get rid of the OpenStack group and will be more focused on its cloud.com," Claybrook added, "And it is clear that they do not hope for OpenStack." The

Bryce says that Essex has 200 of developers from 55 different companies contributing code for this project, which will help the project move to the next level. The community also builds on more quality-assured time, ensuring that a large number of technical contributions are run smoothly.

"One of the things we've decided to do is change the release cycle, so we have an early freeze, which gives us another six weeks to do more testing and integration," Bryce said.

In addition to OpenStack object storage, there are many other new storage features, including a feature from the start-up Solidfire, which handles high-performance storage matrices. The company integrates its products with Essex, allowing administrators to link virtual machines (VMS) to their storage matrices.

NetApp also supports its core offerings, which Bryce as a power supply.

"MercadoLibre is the world's eighth-largest E-commerce platform and a large user of NetApp, running 6000 to 7000 virtual machines on top of OpenStack," Bryce added, "And now the company and other users can have their NetApp assets , direct and OpenStack cloud computing infrastructure connectivity. The

(editor: Heritage)