Published via Inbox: 2013-05-08 17:25:40
Telcos and service providers wanting to compete with Amazon in public cloud services can jump-start that effort by tapping Rackspace, says Rackspace.
Scott Sanchez, director of strategy for the San Antonio, Texas company, described what could emerge as a network of interconnected OpenStack-based clouds, operated by different telcos but all federated to support multi-national companies as needed. “We’ll treat their data centers as our data centers. they’ll all run technology that is interconnected, we can link them all. So customers of one provider will see all the zones of all the providers in this network,” he said.
My Two Cents
The attached article coming out of the OpenStack Summit in Portland, OR last month speaks to the opportunity of tying numerous independent clouds together. The idea of federated OpenStack clouds is quite compelling. Imagine IBM's Smart Cloud being seamlessly federated to Rackspace which is federated to AT&T's Cloud, which is federated to a Comcast cloud which is federated to an NTT Docomo cloud. This type of Federated Community could absolutely threaten Amazon's AWS. Not yet. Not now, but at some point in the near to mid term, this makes AWS play nice with others in the Cloud sandbox.
Federated OpenStack clouds all throughout the world is imho the most compelling big-picture business opportunity originating from OpenStack. Such an approach handles the issues of jurisdiction and nation-state legislation re handling/treatment of data resident in a country's jurisdiction. It deals with optimizing access to content. This approach evokes images of the Telco's Inter-Connect and termination agreements. Well orchestrated Rackspace and OpenStack Community.
