Why
OpenStack is the Best Choice for Both Private and Public Cloud as we
always say ? Here is the explanation one must consider OpenStack to
avoid vendor lock. Right before, we discussed about Private Cloud
Platform Selection, where we mentioned about OpenStack and yes, in an
separate article plus through various guides and tutorials. But this
article is not a guide, but to answer our own raised question - Why
OpenStack is the Best Choice for Both Private and Public Cloud ?
Why OpenStack is the Best Choice for Both Private and Public Cloud : The Free Software Advantage
At
a time of strong growth of Cloud Computing, both in terms of public
services, both for companies that who want to create a private cloud or
provide a software solution to implement a platform for a web software.
There are essentially two ways you can go, the first is that of
proprietary vendors, which provide their own solution, fully integrated
to operate immediately with a cloud environment, the second is to choose
an open platform, such as OpenStack. We have devoted several articles
to OpenStack and today we recommend to companies that who want to work
with an open source platform, expandable and ready, now for a production
environment, should go for OpenStack.
First OpenStack is
supported by over 150 companies worldwide, the code base comes from the
contribution of The Rackspace Cloud and NASA and after other developers
who made OpenStack based software for specific need, from computing,
storage, networking.
OpenStack has a complete set of APIs that
allow you to integrate the management of cloud instances within your
control panel. Of course bigger Free Software Repositories like GitHub,
Source Forge has more softwares developed by fully independent
developers, some times just only out of joy of creation.
Why OpenStack is the Best Choice for Both Private and Public Cloud ?
Free
Softwares are not always good because of lack of integrity. But with
several Linux distributions and WordPress, we have seen the huge success
that actually made any paid solution to fail – there is no paid
blogging platform which can even come closer to WordPress. And in an
article on Cloud Computing, Open Source and Developers; we mentioned
that the most important speculation or rather word of caution by Richard
Stallman against Cloud Computing. Open Stack does break that dangerous
vendor lock in if you stick to OpenStack solution from The Rackspace
Cloud or HP Cloud. We can not find any third company who can even come
closer with so flexible hourly based plans.
Why OpenStack is the
Best Choice for Both Private and Public Cloud has three answers – to get
rid of vendor lock in, to save cost and to have the possibility to use
more free softwares with Open Stack.
