For the price of admission, here's what I've got: OpenStack:
* First and foremost is a Frame Work and not a completely integrated solution. Each piece is it's own product and it's own development effort. They then rely on queues and communication to try and work together, but that is where a lot of the work is done. * The community is very fragmented. The big boys are investing in their branches and very little into the core. Nearly a 95/5% split. Causing little growth in the core and collaboration amongst the giants that are "contributing" to OpenStack * The Integration piece is lengthy and cumbersome. Average deployment time is in the timeframe of months, not days * The functions do not include SDN, accounts, usage, and other ancillary functions. If there is not a module for it, it does not exist and you need to find someone to do it. Thus the large number of "partners" doing the leg work. * While they have they investor companies running on it, they are still having growth issues outside of it's own walls. http://gigaom.com/2013/07/19/after-three-years-openstack-has-made-progress-but-theres-still-work-to-do/ CloudStack: * Single source, one collaborative entity. You have a suite of applications that work in harmony and developed in harmony to work together to bring you IaaS * Focus on customer experience and flexibility. You want to get running in 5 hours? Cool. You don't like our GUI? Cool, just run the same APIs on yours. You don't want a GUI? Cool, run all API. Want to do something different, Cool, go right ahead; by the way can you look at contributing that later on if it's a good idea? * One Community, No influence. Citrix is no longer the majority of contributors, and has no financial impact at all on the product. You don't see, "Cisco spends 20 Million on CloudStack" because they can't. It doesn't buy them influence, credit, or any good. But their UCS cabinet is getting fully integrated and their network pieces are becoming a part of the suite. They Contribute, not dictate. * Out of the Box is our (IMHO) BEST Feature: * Compute Systems * KVM (Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS) * VMware ESX (4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1) * Xen / XCP / XenServer (6.0, 6.0.2, 6.1) * Bare Metal * I would say OVM, but someone needs to confirm if that's working again * And very soon HyperV * UCS Chassis integration * Storage * If your hypervisor supports it, we do * NFS * iSCSI * S3 (Secondary Storage) * SolidFire integration * Network * Cisco Integration * ASA * 1000v * F5 BIG IP Integration * Juniper SRX integration * Netscaler Integration * SDN * Software * RESTful open API * EC2 API passthru (think that's the right way to say it) * Usage information * Account and User setup and administration * Account Administration and User API access * Customer utilization dashboards * Customer friendly GUI * Real time GUI via API And that's without getting into the IaaS pieces like Regions, dedicated resources and more. Out-of-the-Box is what should be THE differentiator in my mind. One Tar Ball, One Setup, and One System – One CloudStack. OK Ramble complete. Though I can go on… Matt From: Geoff Higginbottom <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Thursday, July 25, 2013 1:21 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: CloudStack Press Article All, I am working on the press article for http://www.admin-magazin.de/ and following a submission of a first draft ( 17,000 characters) the journalist has come back asking if I could provide more examples of where CloudStack is better than OpenStack, or what are the features unique to CloudStack etc. Now I’m first to admit I’m not an OpenStack expert, so if there are any more knowledgeable people out there could you please highlight some areas where CloudStack excels. In addition they want a brief list of the top features of CloudStack for a ‘call out box’ etc. As there are many great features, I am again happy to take suggestions. Before anyone asks, I do not want to share the full text I have written so far, as that would just result in 100 editors helpfully trying to ‘improve’ it, I hope you all understand. I can confirm however that I have put a very positive aspect on how excellent CloudStack is, and once the magazine editors have approved the text I will share on this list. 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