Top vendors flex Cloud muscle at OpenStack Summit
In three short years, OpenStack transformed from an IaaS experiment into a multi-purpose cloud solution for the enterprise, complete with a burgeoning partner ecosystem and production-grade capabilities. The open source platform has emerged as a threat to traditional data center vendors, boasting over 100 customers worldwide according to a newly released user survey.
Dozens of backers converged at this week’s OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong to show off their newest solutions and make their presence felt in the community. Cisco kicked off the event with a set of accelerators that aim to make it easier for enterprises to deploy their projects on its UCS infrastructure. The three new UCS Solution Accelerator Paks are specifically geared towards compute-intensive, storage-intensive and mixed deployments. The bundles support multiple Linux flavors and come with optional services for installing Cisco’s Nexus and UCS switches.
On the storage side, flash solutions provider SolidFire announced that it’s adding complete API support for the OpenStack Block Storage component of the latest Havana release. Hard drive maker Seagate also made a splash with the Kinetic Open Storage Platform, an application interface that provides Ethernet capabilities at the storage layer.
Seeking to expand its own network footprint, Brocade released a blueprint proposal to extend the Neutron component of OpenStack with a resource manager that would simplify the deployment of physical and virtual networks within cloud environments. GigaSpaces is pushing towards a similar goal in the PaaS space with Cloudify Application Catalog, a new solution for installing services on the OpenStack-powered HP Public Cloud.
In the server arena, AMD pulled the curtains back on the SeaMicro SM15000, a new system for large-scale OpenStack deployments. The machine supports bare metal features in OpenStack Compute and utilizes SeaMicro’s supercomputing fabric.
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