[ Thanks to The
VAR Guy for this link. ]
“Now here?s the twist: Thousands of Dell, HP and IBM resellers ?
especially server resellers ? have yet to master recurring revenue
business models. Thousands more are still sorting out their public
and private cloud strategies. That reality was in the spotlight
last week, during an HP-Axcient cloud road show in New York, where
roughly 100 VARs will trying to understand where cloud storage
potentially fit into their short-list of business
opportunities.“For those server and hardware resellers, OpenStack could
provide a two-part springboard into cloud computing. For starters,
many server makers are starting to promote OpenStack as an ideal
platform for building private clouds. Moreover, a growing number of
cloud services providers ? most notably Rackspace and the HP Cloud
? are adhering to OpenStack as part pf their public cloud
strategies.”