Look out Amazon. OpenStack is shaping up to be a game changer in the cloud world. On Thursday, Atlanta-based Internap Network Services announced the launch of the first public cloud built on OpenStack. 留神亚马逊。OpenStack正在成为云世界中的创新制胜法则。周四，亚特兰大的 Internap Network Services推出了首个以 OpenStack为基础的公共云。 Internap's new service is dubbed Open Public Cloud. The company had previously launched a cloud storage service based on OpenStack but now offers the whole OpenStack caboodle. Internap is perhaps best known for its VMware-based cloud, which remains as a separate offering to the new cloud. 我们把Internap的新服务称为 Open Public Cloud。之前公司已经推出了基于OpenStack的云存储服务，但是现在提供了完整的OpenStack云服务。 也许Internap最出名的是基于VMware的云，它现在仍是新云的一个单独的产品。 Open Public Cloud uses the low-cost, open source Xen Cloud Platform as its base hypervisor. It supports Windows and Linux virtual machines. "We are using OpenStack and Xen, which is a mature hypervisor running on Linux, and supporting both Windows and Linux guest operating systems," Josh Crowe, senior vice president of Internap's product engineering, told Network World. "We also like the robust management capabilities of OpenStack and are using it to handle activities like automated provisioning and usage metering, among others." Open Public Cloud把低成本的开放源代码Xen云平台作为它的基础管理程序。它支持Windows 和Linux 虚拟机。Internap产品工程高级副总裁Josh Crowe说：“Xen是运用Linux上的一个成熟管理程序，我们正在运用OpenStack 和Xen来支持Windows 和 Linux的客户操作系统。我们很喜欢OpenStack稳固的管理能力，并使用它来处理自动化提取和使用计量这样的作业。 OpenStack is a potential game changer in that it offers a standardized set of APIs that the OpenStack consortium hopes will end vendor lock-in, allowing enterprises to easily move workloads between homegrown private OpenStack clouds and any public OpenStack cloud provider. OpenStack is an open source cloud platform that includes its own operating system, storage, and networking components and that has garnered widespread industry support. It is a flavor of the Nebula cloud project originally developed by NASA and is championed by Rackspace. OpenStack 是一个潜在的创新制胜法则，因为它提供了一套标准的API，OpenStack 联营的希望会通过这套API终止供货商限制，这套API允许企业轻松地在自己的OpenStack私有云和任何OpenStack公共云之间迁移工作负 荷。OpenStack是一个开放源代码平台，包含了它特有的操作系统、存储和联网技术，而且已经得到了企业的普遍支持。它是Nebula云项目的一部 分，Nebula云项目起初由NASA开发并得到Rackspace的拥护。 Today, Amazon's cloud is its most popular infrastructure as a service. Although Amazon offers APIs, its cloud is not open source technology being developed by a consortium, as is OpenStack. However, OpenStack is not the only open source, consortium-led, Nebula-based offering out there. OpenNebula is another and boasts a large community, claiming 5,000 downloads a month and some significant large-scale users. Other vendors have also launched competing efforts. Red Hat, for instance, has championed DeltaCloud and turned it over to Apache. DeltaCloud claims to avoid vendor lock-in, too, by handling multiple providers' APIs, including Amazon and Rackspace. 如今，亚马逊的云是它最受欢迎的基础设施即服务。虽然亚马逊提供API，但是它的云与OpenStack不同，不是联营开发的开源技术。然而 OpenStack不是唯一的联营控制的，以Nebula的开放源代码为基础。OpenNebula是另一个开放源码并以大型社区为荣，它宣称每月能有 5000的下载量并且拥有很大规模的用户群。其他供应商也做出了竞争的努力。如 Red Hat已经在为 DeltaCloud 斗争并把它交给了 Apache。DeltaCloud宣称，它同样通过操作多个供应商的API避免了对他们的限制，包括亚马逊和Rackspace。 Still, Internap chose OpenStack over such other options for a few reasons, says Josh Crowe, SVP of product engineering at Internap. With Rackspace's involvement, OpenStack was designed by the hosting/service provider industry, so Internap found it well-suited for the kinds of big-server, multitenant workloads asked of a public cloud. But the service provider was also wowed by "its maturing functionality, hypervisor-agnostic design and its extensible nature," Crowe says. Internap产品工程高级副总裁Josh Crowe说，Internap没有选择其他而选择OpenStack有几个原因。随着Rackspace的卷入，OpenStack由主办/服务供应商 企业设计，因此 Internap发现OpenStack适合各个公共云要求的大服务器和多租户工作。但是服务器供应商也因其“成熟的功能性、不可知论的管理程序设计以及 可扩展性”而得到赞赏。 Momentum is steamrolling in favor of OpenStack,
which now claims 128 vendors contributing to the project, including such
companies as Cisco, Citrix, Gluster (an open source storage firm
recently acquired by Red Hat), Extreme Networks, HP, Brocade, Arista,
and Vyatta. The project, still led by Rackspace, will be turned over to a
newly created OpenStack foundation in 2012, project leaders announced
earlier this month. OpenStack以不可抗拒的冲力前进，现称已有128个供应商贡献于此项目，包括Cisco, Citrix, Gluster （Red Hat近期收购的一个开源存储公司）, Extreme Networks, HP, Brocade, Arista, 和Vyatta。这个项目仍由Rackspace领导，2012年将交给一个新建的OpenStack基金会，此基金会是本月初宣布的项目领导者。 Crowe说：“OpenStack有潜力为虚拟的数据中心提供一个全面、标准、开放的选择。我认为，随着OpenStack基金会的出现，我们会看到技 术和云服务的供应者越来越愿意把项目托付给 OpenStack。 The number of announced OpenStack projects are almost too numerous to count at this point. For instance, earlier this week Attachmate's Suse announced plans to make software for OpenStack private clouds. Suse Cloud, which won't be available for at least nine months, will be based on the latest version of OpenStack, called Diablo. 推出的OpenStack项目数量巨大，此时还不能计算出来。例如，本周前期Attachmate的 Suse宣布了新计划，让软件促进OpenStack 私有云发展。Suse云九个月内不能发布，它的发布将取决于OpenStack的最后一个版本Diablo。 Then there's Nebula, founded by a former CTO of NASA, who is developing an appliance for building private clouds using OpenStack. It's in testing now and is due in 2012. Piston Cloud Computing is working on an OpenStack distribution that will offer enterprises more granular security features. Piston was founded by the lead architect of NASA's cloud, which was spun to become OpenStack, and the company expects to begin offering the software commercially in late November. NASA首席技术官创建了Nebula，他正在开发一个用OpenStack创建私有云的装置。现在正在实验中，预计2012年发布。Piston Cloud Computing 正致力于OpenStack分布，它会给企业提供颗粒状安全功能。Piston由NASA云的首席设计师创建，现被转为了OpenStack，公司希望在 十月份开始在商业上供应软件。 Dell has been testing high-end servers preconfigured with OpenStack, geared toward large data centers and service providers. Dell已经在测试OpenStack预先配置的高端服务器，此服务器面向大量的数据中心和服务供应商。 In addition, Rackspace, which contributed code along with NASA to create OpenStack, has offered to help companies use OpenStack to build private clouds and announced this summer that its own cloud would be going all OpenStack, too. 另外， Rackspace和NASA一起贡献代码创建OpenStack， Rackspace已帮助公司使用OpenStack来创建私有云，并于今年夏天宣布他们的云也会走向OpenStack。 On the other hand, all the hype has caused competitors such as Red Hat's Scott Crenshaw to bash OpenStack as a "press release" project. He accused most of the support vendors of having pledged to be nothing but statements in a press release. 另一方面，所有夸大的广告宣传已经引起竞争者（如：Red Hat的Scott Crenshaw）猛烈抨击，他们说OpenStack 是一个“新闻稿”项目。他指责大多数支持供应商只不过是承诺在新闻稿中发表言论而已。 Crowe counters, "I think there will always be the inevitable flurry of activity surrounding new technologies, some of which will of course consist of hype. However, OpenStack is based on software that has actually been in production for quite some time and is maturing quickly. There are a growing number of large-scale use cases," he says. Crowe反击说：“周围的新技术总会存在一阵不可避免的骚动，当然也有夸大的广告宣传。然而，OpenStack以特定时间生产并且会快速成熟的软件为基础。会有越来越多的大规模用例出现。” He offers, for example, that like Rackspace, HP has a beta OpenStack public cloud. Cloud infrastructure automation provider Opscode is now shipping products with OpenStack support built in. Plus, he says, "Enterprises like MercadoLibre and government institutions like NASA and CERN are all using OpenStack-based cloud platforms. Korean Telecom has deployed OpenStack Swift for storage, which Internap did earlier this year. So, looking beyond the marketing, we are seeing real commitment -- not to mention investment dollars -- toward bringing OpenStack cloud services to market." 例如，他提出，同Rackspace一样，HP已经拥有了OpenStack公共云的测试版。云基础设施自动化的供应商Opscode现在正在产品中内置 OpenStack支持。另外，他说：“像MercadoLibre这样的企业和NASA和CERN这样的政府机构都在使用基于OpenStack的云平 台。韩国电信已经为存储部署了OpenStack Swift，Internap年初已开始这样做。因此，展望市场未来，我们会看到真正的承诺——更不用说投资美元——会把OpenStack云服务带向市 场。” |
