Joshua McKenty, Piston Cloud Computing, at OpenStackSV 2014 with John Furrier and Jeff Frick
@theCUBE
#OpenstackSV
“We’ve conquered everything there was to conquer,” said Joshua McKenty, co-founder and CTO of Piston Cloud Computing. Now, Piston Cloud is “down to the day-to-day tasks of helping people with infrastructure.” To talk OpenStack maturation, cloud strategy, and partner ecosystem, McKenty sat down with theCUBE’s John Furrier at the OpenStack Silicon Valley conference this week.
OpenStack is “not a teenager,”McKenty quipped, but a student at college that is “remembering to do [its] own laundry.” In a recent board meeting, McKenty relayed a conversation in which OpenStack executives discussed product management, trying to figure out whether the company itself or its vendors should provide resources for those types of projects. Technical committees, he said, have stepped up to focus on the collaboration between products are are looking for ways to open up the release cycle. All these developments, McKenty explained, are positive “signs of maturation.”
A bustling ecosystem
Citing several acquisitions in the past year, including Hewlett-Packard, Co.’s acquisition of Eucalyptus Systems, Inc. and Red Hat, Inc.’s acquisition of eNovance SAS, McKenty predicted that the consolidation trend within the OpenStack ecosystem will continue. He explained that the right number of OpenStack distributions comes directly from the market. “When customers can’t tell the difference between Piston-OpenStack and a cloud-scaling compute system,” McKenty said, “is the point at which we should probably just buy cloud scaling.” But because the two technologies have differing value propositions and meet different needs, McKenty made clear that it’s not happening yet.
Companies like OpenStack are in a place in which “the rate of feature development is now way, way faster than the coverage,” said McKenty. OpenStack is focused on the daily grind: delivering to customers.
McKenty clarified that for a cloud solution to be an OpenStack one, there is “a narrow, small core set of APIs.” Those APIs, he said, “work extremely well.” OpenStack can explain to the market, “here are the things you can expect an OpensStack cloud to do, and to do really well,” but also acknowledge that “mileage may vary” depending on what vendors decide to offer.
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Joshua McKenty, Piston Cloud Computing, at OpenStackSV 2014 with John Furrier and Jeff Frick
@theCUBE
#OpenstackSV
“We’ve conquered everything there was to conquer,” said Joshua McKenty, co-founder and CTO of Piston Cloud Computing. Now, Piston Cloud is “down to the day-to-day tasks of helping people with infrastructure.” To talk OpenStack maturation, cloud strategy, and partner ecosystem, McKenty sat down with theCUBE’s John Furrier at the OpenStack Silicon Valley conference this week.
OpenStack is “not a teenager,”McKenty quipped, but a student at college that is “remembering to do [its] own laundry.” In a recent board meeting, McKenty relayed a conversation in which OpenStack executives discussed product management, trying to figure out whether the company itself or its vendors should provide resources for those types of projects. Technical committees, he said, have stepped up to focus on the collaboration between products are are looking for ways to open up the release cycle. All these developments, McKenty explained, are positive “signs of maturation.”
A bustling ecosystem
Citing several acquisitions in the past year, including Hewlett-Packard, Co.’s acquisition of Eucalyptus Systems, Inc. and Red Hat, Inc.’s acquisition of eNovance SAS, McKenty predicted that the consolidation trend within the OpenStack ecosystem will continue. He explained that the right number of OpenStack distributions comes directly from the market. “When customers can’t tell the difference between Piston-OpenStack and a cloud-scaling compute system,” McKenty said, “is the point at which we should probably just buy cloud scaling.” But because the two technologies have differing value propositions and meet different needs, McKenty made clear that it’s not happening yet.
Companies like OpenStack are in a place in which “the rate of feature development is now way, way faster than the coverage,” said McKenty. OpenStack is focused on the daily grind: delivering to customers.
McKenty clarified that for a cloud solution to be an OpenStack one, there is “a narrow, small core set of APIs.” Those APIs, he said, “work extremely well.” OpenStack can explain to the market, “here are the things you can expect an OpensStack cloud to do, and to do really well,” but also acknowledge that “mileage may vary” depending on what vendors decide to offer.
