Smart organisations are getting sophisticated about workload placement across public and private clouds based on the Three C?s‹capabilities, compliance and cost, said Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation during his opening address at the OpenStack Summit. The OpenStack ecosystem is evolving to deliver private cloud infrastructure in new ways, including Private Cloud-as-a-Service (PCaaS), remotely managed in a user?s data center of choice.
During the OpenStack Summit keynotes, GE Healthcare presented the benefits of Private Cloud-as-a-Service through their partnership with Rackspace. According to Patrick Weeks, senior director of digital operations for GE Digital, ?The remotely managed OpenStack solution provided the most flexible solution to drive applications to a cloud environment while protecting sensitive data and benefiting from access to internal applications on our private network."
The OpenStack Foundation today announced a new category within the OpenStack Marketplace to feature vendors who offer remotely managed private cloud solutions powered by OpenStack. The OpenStack Marketplace allows users to research and compare products and services from the OpenStack ecosystem, according to criteria such as interoperability tests, API versions, regional availability and hardware requirements. OpenStack service providers featured in the new Remotely Managed Private Cloud category include:
Aptira Managed Cloud
Canonical BootStack
Cisco Metacloud
EasyStack ESCaaS
IBM Bluemix Private Cloud Local
Mirantis Managed OpenStack
Platform9 Managed OpenStack
Rackspace OpenStack Private Cloud
UnitedStack UOS
Whether on-premises or hosted in the service provider?s data center, PCaaS means that the vendor is responsible for architecting, monitoring, patching and upgrading the OpenStack infrastructure. In turn, enterprises do not have to hire a team to manage the infrastructure behind their firewall. At the same time, they benefit from OpenStack?s open APIs and competitive ecosystem, and experience significant cost savings versus traditional infrastructure. Users can even achieve substantial savings over public cloud as scale increases and workloads stabilize.
