Is OpenStack grown-up enough for enterprise IT?

摘要

LESS THAN a year ago the cool thing for IT vendors to do was jump on the OpenStack bandwagon.Everyone was hopping on: Red Hat, IBM and even VMware signed on as partners to the open source cloud computing platform, joining Rackspace, HP, Cisco and Dell that were already backing the project. All these companies had a unified goal, says Marc Brien, an analyst at Domicity, who tracks the movers and shakers of the cloud world. They wanted to stave off the fast-growing dominance of Amazon Web Services in the cloud.But Brien questioned exactly how Open-Stack would work out. Would Rackspace have problems relinquishing control to a newly formed OpenStack Foundation?