Walmart and the Soviet Union: who is who in the cloud market
Translation of the article “If AWS is the Walmart of the Cloud, is the OpenStack the Soviet Union?” .
In this article we will tell you about the sensational "exchange of courtesies" between the leaders of large companies engaged in the development of cloud software. It turns out that they also love to snap at each other, and some even have a good sense of humor.
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At the GigaOM Structure conference at the San Francisko Thursday, everything was ready for a lively debate between the representatives of Citrix , Eucalyptus and OpenStack , the strongest players in the world of cloud technologies. Suddenly, Chris Kemp, CEO of Nebula and co-founder of OpenStack, barely had time to enter, already crammed his colleagues by comparing the API provided by Amazon Web Services with the Walmart infrastructure.
“It’s fairly fast and fairly secure,” Kemp says of the AWS API, “and therefore it has the lion’s share of the cloud market. But AWS will never be super-fast and completely inaccessible. Yes, perhaps Amazon managed to achieve universal acceptance, but their API still remains privately owned. And anyway, who said that universal acceptance means something? ”
Kemp has criticized Citrix and Eucalyptus for strengthening Amazon’s dominance instead of using and maintaining OpenStack. But Eucalyptus Systems CEO Marten Mickos (Marten Mickos) and Samir Dolakia (Sameer Dholakia), head of the Citrix Systems Cloud Platform Group, of course, did not agree with Kemp's arguments or platform charges.
Both noted that their platforms, like OpenStack, are open-source. But the raging Kemp refused to accept this definition, citing his protest by saying that “if the core of the platform is developed within the company, and then it is laid out in free access, then it’s not open-source”. As an example, true open-source Kemp cited OpenStack (who would have thought?), Which, unlike all the others, was fully developed by a wide range of participants.
Dolakia objected, saying that developing a core code together with a group of talented engineers, and then putting it into free access is an ideal solution, as a reliable foundation laid by professionals gives everyone a great opportunity to build something of their own. By the way, OpenStack has not yet recovered from the previous blow struck by Citrix, when the latter abandoned the former and developed for the Apache Foundation Group the new software CloudStack , which became, in fact, a direct competitor to OpenStack.
Mikos went on the offensive: he compared OpenStack with the Soviet Union, “a huge collective farm, where everyone supposedly works for the good of society, but there were no results of this work, and there is no way to foresee it” (it’s nice to say nothing :)). According to Mikos, Eucalyptus is moving in the same direction as its customers, and customers are most loyal to AWS. “If suddenly another cloud-based API becomes a worthy competitor to AWS, then we will most likely support it, and if it is OpenStack, then we have nothing against it,” says Mikos, “but I honestly don’t expect it. We will be happy to support someone who provides a new decent API, but I have no idea who is capable of it now. ”
Thus ended the “ideological clash” of an ardent supporter of open-source and two rational businessmen. And who do you think is right in this dispute?
Original Text Writer: Kevin Fitchard
Link to the original: gigaom.com/cloud/if-aws-is-the-walmart-of-cloud-is-openstack-the-soviet-union
In this article we will tell you about the sensational "exchange of courtesies" between the leaders of large companies engaged in the development of cloud software. It turns out that they also love to snap at each other, and some even have a good sense of humor.
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At the GigaOM Structure conference at the San Francisko Thursday, everything was ready for a lively debate between the representatives of Citrix , Eucalyptus and OpenStack , the strongest players in the world of cloud technologies. Suddenly, Chris Kemp, CEO of Nebula and co-founder of OpenStack, barely had time to enter, already crammed his colleagues by comparing the API provided by Amazon Web Services with the Walmart infrastructure.
“It’s fairly fast and fairly secure,” Kemp says of the AWS API, “and therefore it has the lion’s share of the cloud market. But AWS will never be super-fast and completely inaccessible. Yes, perhaps Amazon managed to achieve universal acceptance, but their API still remains privately owned. And anyway, who said that universal acceptance means something? ”
Kemp has criticized Citrix and Eucalyptus for strengthening Amazon’s dominance instead of using and maintaining OpenStack. But Eucalyptus Systems CEO Marten Mickos (Marten Mickos) and Samir Dolakia (Sameer Dholakia), head of the Citrix Systems Cloud Platform Group, of course, did not agree with Kemp's arguments or platform charges.
Both noted that their platforms, like OpenStack, are open-source. But the raging Kemp refused to accept this definition, citing his protest by saying that “if the core of the platform is developed within the company, and then it is laid out in free access, then it’s not open-source”. As an example, true open-source Kemp cited OpenStack (who would have thought?), Which, unlike all the others, was fully developed by a wide range of participants.
Dolakia objected, saying that developing a core code together with a group of talented engineers, and then putting it into free access is an ideal solution, as a reliable foundation laid by professionals gives everyone a great opportunity to build something of their own. By the way, OpenStack has not yet recovered from the previous blow struck by Citrix, when the latter abandoned the former and developed for the Apache Foundation Group the new software CloudStack , which became, in fact, a direct competitor to OpenStack.
Mikos went on the offensive: he compared OpenStack with the Soviet Union, “a huge collective farm, where everyone supposedly works for the good of society, but there were no results of this work, and there is no way to foresee it” (it’s nice to say nothing :)). According to Mikos, Eucalyptus is moving in the same direction as its customers, and customers are most loyal to AWS. “If suddenly another cloud-based API becomes a worthy competitor to AWS, then we will most likely support it, and if it is OpenStack, then we have nothing against it,” says Mikos, “but I honestly don’t expect it. We will be happy to support someone who provides a new decent API, but I have no idea who is capable of it now. ”
Thus ended the “ideological clash” of an ardent supporter of open-source and two rational businessmen. And who do you think is right in this dispute?
Original Text Writer: Kevin Fitchard
Link to the original: gigaom.com/cloud/if-aws-is-the-walmart-of-cloud-is-openstack-the-soviet-union
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/147072/
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