Great comparison!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mathias Mullins [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:39 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: CloudStack Press Article
>
> 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:geoff.higginbottom@shapebl
> ue.com>>
> Reply-To:
> "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]
> rg>"
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]
> rg>>
> Date: Thursday, July 25, 2013 1:21 PM
> To:
> "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]
> rg>"
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]
> rg>>
> 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.
>
> Regards
>
> Geoff Higginbottom
> CTO / Cloud Architect
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