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OpenStack vs. CloudStack: The beginning of the open-source cloud wars

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Apr 13, 2012

[ Thanks to sjvn for this link. ]

So, what?s the conflict here? Simple, like open-source
Eucalyptus, Citrix CloudStack?s application programming interface
(API) provides compatibility with Amazon Web Services? Elastic
Compute Cloud (EC2), the world?s most popular public cloud. The
OpenStack Foundation members would like businesses not to use EC2,
thank you very much, but to use public clouds built by its major
vendors?such as Dell, HP and IBM?instead.


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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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