[ Thanks to Amy Bennett for this link. ]
Much has been made about AT&T’s surprise entry into
the OpenStack project earlier this week. Most notably, why the
major U.S. carrier decided to sign up for OpenStack in the first
place.That’s no slam on OpenStack, mind you: the Rackspace-owned cloud
computing project is much-beloved in the open source community for
the technology and the Apache license that covers the project. The
fact that governance will be shifting from Rackspace proper to a
planned OpenStack Foundation definitely helps, too.But why would a carrier want to make use of OpenStack? There are
some clues, most notably AT&T’s planned AT&T Cloud
Architect program, a service that will provide “public, private,
and bare metal cloud servers or choose dedicated options.”