Animesh This is a topic that we discuss a lot with customers. We have many customers who have evaluated both OS and CS and then choose CS.
The customers that we work with like CS because it is a "product" that has many real world deployments, as opposed to OS, which is (IMO) a "code project" only right now The way I see it at the moment is it is wholly dependant on use-case: If you are a major vendor (with a massive budget) who wants to create a propriety stack of your own (abstracted from the underlying core code), then OS does offer a lot. But it requires a lot of work to get it in a usable state. Great if you want to make it your own thing, but not great if you have the usual, real world, time and cost constraints. However, many organisations (both public cloud providers such as telcos and private cloud operators) want something that they can lift "out of the box" quickly and easily. That’s where CS wins hands down at the moment. One of the most interesting anecdotes that I have is a media company over here in UK. One of their lead architects is a OS guru (he wrote the "Openstack cookbook" and now works for Rackspace!) and tried for months and months to build them a small production cloud (including buying professional services to help). They eventually gave up, and we built them a CS cloud in a matter of days. We've got some case-studies coming out in the next few weeks which we'd be happy to share with the community Kind Regards Giles @shapeblue D: +44 20 3603 0541 | M: +44 796 111 2055 -----Original Message----- From: Animesh Chaturvedi [mailto:animesh.chaturv...@citrix.com] Sent: 23 January 2013 19:11 To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] "Arming" cloudstack supporters in "stack war" bakeoffs.... > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Huang [mailto:alex.hu...@citrix.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 10:54 AM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: [DISCUSS] "Arming" cloudstack supporters in "stack war" bakeoffs.... > > Hi All, > > I like to discuss with the community how we can best "arm" cloudstack > supporters in "stack war" bakeoffs. This is due to Ilya's email > thread. I think his question and others like it will be repeated > often. The community suggested an objective process to evaluate the > various stacks: bakeoffs, which I'm supportive of. But it make sense that > people don't just enter into > these bake-offs blind. We should provide them with the information, > experience and process to properly conduct cloudstack in these bakeoffs. > However, I'm not sure what's the right combination to provide. So I > like to start this topic to see what the community thinks. > > I asked this during cloudstack-meeting and Chip suggested Dave's runbook. > That's a good starting point. Is there any other suggestions? > > There's a top level section in our wiki that makes sense for this. > After we come up with the right combination, we can update the wiki > and continue to update the wiki with more information. > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Newbie > > Thanks. > > --Alex Folks wearing project management hats can you share any success stories and real customer experience and reasoning in choosing cloudstack publically? ShapeBlue provides a range of strategic and technical consulting and implementation services to help IT Service Providers and Enterprises to build a true IaaS compute cloud. ShapeBlue’s expertise, combined with CloudStack technology, allows IT Service Providers and Enterprises to deliver true, utility based, IaaS to the customer or end-user. ________________________________ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales.
