Join Us Tomorrow for a Live Peer Incite Discussion: Amazon and OpenStack Wrestle over Enterprise Infrastructure
Amazon is sending ripples through the industry with its aggressive expansion into the enterprise space, a highly lucrative market that is gradually warming up to the public cloud. Tomorrow, a Wikibon “Peer Incite” panel will discuss the company’s portfolio and its ongoing campaign against traditional data center vendors with Jason Mendenhall, the executive vice president of cloud for Switch. The Peer Incite session scheduled for Tuesday, 12:00pm and 1:00pm ET (9:00am – 10:00am PT).
The topics that will be discussed are:
Can private clouds be extended safely?
Will hybrids truly be an extension of internal IT or simply a burst mechanism?
Where does AWS fit into the technology portfolio?
What alternatives exist and how will they compete?
Critical factors IT execs should consider with cloud strategies.
Amazon is far from perfect: a large scale AWS environment can be more expensive than a private deployment, and as with all cloud services, the large number of moving parts increases risk across the board. Nevertheless, Infrastructure-as-a-Service is gaining traction among IT shops that are abandoning license fees from companies like VMware in favor of the public cloud.
The VMware crowd is contested by both Amazon and the OpenStack camp, a group of traditional vendors that have rallied the troops in response to the former’s advance into their home turf. As Wikibon chief analyst Dave Vellante explained in a recent interview, the market is torn between the public cloud and software-led infrastructure.
“The ecosystem that [OpenStack is] developing is providing an alternative to the Amazon public cloud, and at the same time it’s offering an open environment. I think it’s going to enable – and it is enabling – very high degrees of customization, which is very important to tap into that trillion dollar tam that I talked about in the enterprise,” Vellante told SiliconAngle’s Kristin Feledy.
Last week’s OpenStack Summit demonstrated how far the SLI movement has come in just a few short years. Over 3,000 professionals attended the event, which featured a slew of product announcements from open-source whales such as Red Hat and Canonical. Even VMware reserved a booth the sold-out event.
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