Open Source Cloud Company Expands
November 26, 2012
Clouds expand and contract based on heating and cooling. Cloud computing companies expand based on how many partners and funding they receive. Network World tracked down a company that is following this economic trend: “RightScale Joins OpenStack, Supports Rackspace’s Open Cloud.” RightScale’s software is used to manage private and public clouds, and it will join with Rackspace to support its open source project. Rackspace has an OpenStack-powered Cloud. OpenStack is gaining more traction and this also that RightScale is dedicated to include open source choices for its customers.
“ ‘Enterprise interest in OpenStack continues to increase,’ says RightScale CEO Michael Crandell. Rackspace’s open source cloud aligns closely to the OpenStack trunk code, which minimizes proprietary extensions, he says. RightScale already works as an integrator with a variety of other public and private cloud platforms…on the private cloud side, RightScale can be used to manage workloads on the OpenStack, CloudStack and Eucalyptus platforms, all of which are open source.”
This partnership does not come as a surprise, as more companies are understanding the benefits of Cloud computing and storage, not to mention the cost-effectiveness of open source. They need to remember, however, that Cloud enterprises need to be searched as much as site-based storage. They may want to give LucidWorks’ search applications a look, a trusted industry leader.
Whitney Grace, November 26, 2012
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