Ubuntu Switches To OpenStack For Cloud 55
angry tapir writes "Canonical has switched its cloud software stack to the open-source OpenStack. The current version of its Ubuntu Server, version 11.04, uses the Eucalyptus platform. Ubuntu Server 11.10 will include the OpenStack stack as the core of the company's Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) package. The server release will also include a set of tools to help users move their cloud deployments from Eucalyptus to OpenStack."
Re:Is it good enough? (Score:2, Interesting)
Do you have anything to back those claims up? Anything at all? What you describe is not what we're finding in the real world, when dealing with real businesses and real "cloud" platforms.
Over the past few years, over 30 of my business clients moved to some sort of a "cloud" platform. Of those, about 20 have admitted that they were wrong and have moved back to more traditional hosting for their web applications and infrastructure. This has mainly been due to reliability issues, and also because these "cloud" providers turned out to be far, far more expensive than running their own servers in-house. Of the remainder, several of them went out of business due to their "cloud" platforms making them uncompetitive, and a few more are seriously considering a move away from their current "cloud" platforms.
You may think that I dislike cloud computing, but I don't. I'm very glad that it has arisen. Fixing all of the problems it has caused has been a very profitable venture for me! Not only that, but it has also helped make my clients realize how much value there is in dealing with real servers that are in their possession, or at worst at a nearby data center.
Cloud computing is a fad, and its time is already almost over. It has failed to live up to the hype, and it has failed to live up to just about every promise made about it. Businesses are abandoning it faster than ever.