Hewlett-Packard vs. Dell in the Open Cloud
A couple days after Dell launched an infrastructure offering based on OpenStack, an open cloud OS initiative started by Rackspace and NASA, Hewlett-Packard announced it too has joined the community. The electronics giant, hoping to further expand beyond hardware into the cloud and other areas, is following many of its competitors cue, joining a total of almost 100 companies that signed up to participate in the initiative.
HP’s Emil Sayegh, VP of cloud services, announced that his company jumped on the open cloud bandwagon in an official blog post:
“HP recognizes that open and interoperable cloud infrastructure and services are critical in delivering the next generation of cloud-based services to developers, businesses and consumers. It is our belief that close collaboration with developer communities combined with HP’s global portfolio are cornerstones to delivering the right, seamless and secure experiences for our customers.”
The open-source cloud has seen a lot of updates this week. We covered the launch of the Dell OpenStack Cloud Solution, the company’s new Cactus-powered offering that comes with the open-source Crowbar installer, and is designed to run on Dell’s PowerEdge C Series.
Open-source storage platform maker Gluster also had some big news. The company released its first major update for OpenStack in the form of Gluster Connector, which increases the accessibility of OpenStack deployments as a whole.
Lastly, one of the biggest highlights also comes from this week’s OSCON event. Nebula, an open-source hardware and services infrastructure initiative was announced yesterday at the conference; a joint project by OpenStack and Facebook’s Open Compute.
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