One panel,The OpenStack Orchestra: The Next Wave of OpenStack Specialist Startups, tackled questions regarding said competition as well as the benefits of contributing to OpenStack. With multiple companies contributing to OpenStack, several of the panelists felt there was no competition to be had since Amazon does not provide private cloud offerings.Akihiro Hasegawa, an organizer of theJapanese OpenStack user group, discussed the growth of the community and identified goals for the upcoming year. He also shared his thoughts on the continuing adoption of OpenStack in the Japanese market, emphasizing that he would like to see the user group establish even more of a significant presence over the next year.Allan Clark, the chairman of the OpenStack Foundations board of directors, discussed the events of this weeks Summit in Tokyo. In his interview, Clark said hishighlights for the week included the Foundations board meeting,as well as the large number of attendees who showed up in Tokyo. Clark mentioned three main areas of focus from the board meeting: community, goal numbers, and finances.Each week, Rackspace futuristRobert Scoblelooks at emerging trends in his newsletter,Life and Tech.This weeks installment looks intosome of the recently announced services and innovations here at Rackspace, as well as what theyll mean for a multi-cloud world:Lately you might have noticed a shift in Rackspaces strategy. Weve invested in providing support for all sorts of different clouds, from Microsoft Azure to Amazon Web Services to OpenStack (which we developed, together with NASA, and offered as an open source platform to the world).This is why I love working for Rackspace. We are now helping customers where they are on the technologies they want to use (not the ones we want to push them onto). I tell friends, were the Switzerland of the cloud, and we can now take a real customer-centric approach to businesses trying to figure this technology out.Lets dig into Carina for a second. getcarina/ It simplifies OpenStack for the enterprise by bringing the container magic that Docker brought to the world, but here its deeply built into OpenStack. Read Scott Crenshaws blog where he explains how and why Carina makes OpenStack simpler for enterprises to use:As cloud becomes more complex, thanks to companies like Microsoft, IBM, Google, Amazon and others bringing new capabilities to the market, youll want a partner who can help you not only navigate those, but someone who will answer the phone when you need help (youd be shocked at how hard that is at some of these companies).Youll want a partner who hasnt only invested in tooling, opinions, education or services, but someone who can and will be an accountable partner in building the future of your business. Someone who can fill in the gaps in the other clouds with innovation both on top of them, in tooling, as well as investment in a competitive cloud itself, OpenStack.Theres pretty much a tsunami of news coming from the OpenStack Summit Tokyo this week. Well have more coverage from the sessions and more from the participants, but as we wind up our time here in Japan, here are the news stories you wont want to miss.OpenStack Foundation Expands Its Efforts at Tokyo SummitFoundation chairman of the board Alan Clark sits down with Sean Michael Kerner to talk about the future of the foundation and talk Tokyo. For me, the highlight is just the crowd that showed up. I was quite surprised, Clark said. Just seeing the energy that comes from 5,000 people actively participating is quite exciting.NaaS guys finish ... first: Dell, HP, Mirantis, Tintri in OpenStack brat packThe Tokyo OpenStack summit saw more announcements today as vendors enjoy playing the Open Stack game which, it appears, no one can lose, says Chris Mellor at The Register.He closes out the article with some food for thought: But also, it appears that no one playing the OpenStack game can lose, unless users find an implementation fails for some reason. There is no opposition for vendors engaged in the game, no one vendor or group of them saying OpenStack is becoming a universal vendor box-tick: Do you support OpenStack Yes, of course who doesntOpenStack Foundation addresses skills shortage with certificationAccess to expertise remains a key issue within open source community, writes Matthew Finnegan in ComputerWorld UK. It is a relative phenomenon, the growth of cloud in general as a market and a model is explosive, OpenStack Foundation COO Mark Collier told press and analysts at the user group event. It is an incredible rate at which companies are embracing the cloud technologies, both public, private and hybrid.Why Contributing to OpenStack Makes Sense for VendorsTime and again panels are discussing why contributions matter and how Amazon is or isnt the competitionOne such panelsession was titledThe OpenStack Orchestra: The Next Wave of OpenStack Specialist Startups, and included executives from Mirantis, Tesora, SwiftStack and PLUMgrid, writes Sean Michael Kerner from the Summit Tokyoin eWeek. A Container Stack for OpenStackTo run containers, you need more than a container runtime and packaging format - you need an entire enterprise container infrastructure. A new stack for running containers in enterprise data centers and public clouds.
