Rackspace will provide OpenStack cloud services to telecom operators

"Zhong Yun net translation" recently Rackspace company publicly said that it will provide telecommunications companies and other service providers OpenStack platform, through OpenStack services these companies will be able to compete with the Amazon Web.

In the United States, many big it vendors, telecoms operators and hosting companies see Amazon's dominance in the public cloud, and more and more companies are moving into cloud computing, such as AT&T,IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat and Ericsson and Junipernetworks, among others. This is a huge opportunity for rackspace companies to provide a platform for customers to quickly get into cloud computing, OpenStack as a basic service for open source cloud computing. Rackspace said, based on the OpenStack public cloud services, we will share the best practical results and the Grand Blueprint.

Rackpace chief technology officer John Engates said that telecom operators and service providers have been working with us for years and they want us to provide proprietary services around the OpenStack category so that they will avoid a lot of red tape and go faster, so they see our unique advantage -because we have a public cloud, we have the experience of operating the OpenStack, we will help them quickly into the cloud business area through technical means.

Combined OpenStack Cloud Group

As part of this program, Rackspace will "adopt openstack" to process automated testing and upgrade delivered hardware and software infrastructure, while also considering the use of "operator level" service agreements or SLAs patching, tuning and monitoring of generated cloud services.

Scott Sanchez, strategic director of Texas San Antonio, said it could become a cloud-based operating system based on OPENSTAC network interconnection, supporting the needs of multinational companies through different telecoms operators. For their data centers, we will treat them as if they were our own products, bringing together all the running technologies so that our suppliers can see all the network providers in the area.

In some ways, Rackspace's OpenStack is modeled on virtual machines embedded in Vcloud. The original vision of the virtual machine was focused on moving apps to the cloud and Amazon was capturing the new app market, said Gary Chen, the IDC Cloud and virtualization software research manager. But now, VMware and Amazon are just stepping into the threshold of the field, Openstac to do is based on the requirements and objectives of different suppliers to occupy the old and the latest application market.

Target: Amazon Network services

Sanchez said Rackspace would not say which telecoms company or service provider had signed the agreement, and that it was likely that incumbents or dominant telecoms operators would be able to achieve these visions.

OpenStack's latest code, the OpenStack, has matured, but still lags far behind the AWS that Amazon launched in 2007, which features and functions more mature and stable. But the desire for an alternative to AWS remains strong.

"This is a global infrastructure service platform for OpenStack, and he provides customers with services in all geographical areas," Engates said.

Rackspace will have more and more cloud services competitors, Sanchez said, as early as three years ago, when we open our source code, we are a lot of people as competitors. Now, our goal is to focus on helping more customers become suppliers of cloud computing.

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