BofA confronts OpenStack problems in data center overhaul | Linux Today

BofA confronts OpenStack problems in data center overhaul

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 16, 2015

Bank of America Corp.’s massive shift to a software-defined data center (SDDC) encompasses two architectures: one built by a vendor and the other by an open source community. So far, the vendor is winning.

Very few of the 1,500 workloads Bank of America (BofA) is moving to the new architectures every month are running on OpenStack, an infrastructure as a service platform freely available under a license from The Apache Software Foundation.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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