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I'll be the first victim... Why is a cloud platform company pushing hardware? Edit: Sorry you answered me on the other thread. I was under the impression tha

I'll be the first victim... Why is a cloud platform company pushing hardware? Edit: Sorry you answered me on the other thread. I was under the impression that Nebula's sole mission was to further OpenStack, but I suppose that was a misunderstanding. To clarify, is it Nebula's long-term goal to sell hardware?

ddorian43 14y ago
what other thread?
- izak30 14y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5478775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5478775
izak30 14y ago
Yeah, many people are furthering OpenStack by 1) building on it, in an open-source (or combined OSS+Comercial) fashion, and 2) Selling Consulting and Services. We are doing it by making an appliance that you plug servers into and get OpenStack. Developing the hardware gives us full control over orchestration and updates and many many other areas. We do have many of the contributors of OpenStack under one of our roofs (Mountain View, Seattle, Remote) and we do contribute a ton to OpenStack, both in code and the Foundataion. As far as the company goes, yes, we are a computer systems company, making hardware and software.
Swannie 14y ago
Having a hardware device reduces the number of things you have to worry about not being under your control. For example, what networking are you going to use? Arista? Great. What's their latest supported APIs for Quantum? Well, they just changed (as in, last I heard they had a pull request open to OpenStack Quantum for support). OK. So Arista's API is now stable, great. Do they actually support what you want to do with your end devices? What are you going to install Glance onto? Is the hardware going to be good enough? SSD? How fat will the pipe be into the switch? Dual homed? Quad? Is that going to fast enough if you want to spin up 100 VMs at once? etc. etc.

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I'll be the first victim... Why is a cloud platform company pushing hardware? Edit: Sorry you answered me on the other thread. I was under the impression tha

by josh2600 14y ago

ddorian43 14y ago
what other thread?
- izak30 14y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5478775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5478775
izak30 14y ago
Yeah, many people are furthering OpenStack by 1) building on it, in an open-source (or combined OSS+Comercial) fashion, and 2) Selling Consulting and Services. We are doing it by making an appliance that you plug servers into and get OpenStack. Developing the hardware gives us full control over orchestration and updates and many many other areas. We do have many of the contributors of OpenStack under one of our roofs (Mountain View, Seattle, Remote) and we do contribute a ton to OpenStack, both in code and the Foundataion. As far as the company goes, yes, we are a computer systems company, making hardware and software.
Swannie 14y ago
Having a hardware device reduces the number of things you have to worry about not being under your control. For example, what networking are you going to use? Arista? Great. What's their latest supported APIs for Quantum? Well, they just changed (as in, last I heard they had a pull request open to OpenStack Quantum for support). OK. So Arista's API is now stable, great. Do they actually support what you want to do with your end devices? What are you going to install Glance onto? Is the hardware going to be good enough? SSD? How fat will the pipe be into the switch? Dual homed? Quad? Is that going to fast enough if you want to spin up 100 VMs at once? etc. etc.