{"id":808,"date":"2011-04-11T10:42:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T15:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=808"},"modified":"2011-04-11T10:42:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T15:42:49","slug":"nati-shalom-gigaspaces-openstack-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/nati-shalom-gigaspaces-openstack-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Nati Shalom &#8211; GigaSpaces OpenStack Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Nati Shalom from GigaSpaces posted a blog today, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/natishalom.typepad.com\/nati_shaloms_blog\/2011\/04\/gigaspaces-openstack-explained.html\" target=\"_blank\">GigaSpaces OpenStack Explained<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From the post,<\/p>\n<p>One of the major concerns of many IT organizations is cloud vendor lock-in. This concern was expressed recently in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwire.com\/it-industry-news\/strategy\/45898-banks-fear-cloud-vendor-lock-in\">Banks fear cloud vendor lock-in<img id=\"snap_com_shot_link_icon\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v6.59\/t.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>,&#8221; from IT Wire:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The onset of cloud computing gives vendors the chance to lock  customers in to their infrastructure, using proprietary protocols to  ensure they\u2019re on the monthly billing cycle as long as possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/openstack.org\/\">OpenStack<img id=\"snap_com_shot_link_icon\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v6.59\/t.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> project emerged with a mission to address this concern by creating a  community-led open source project enabling any organization to create  and offer cloud computing services running on standard hardware.<\/p>\n<p>GigaSpaces joined the OpenStack project with the mission to enable  any organization to build its own Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), with its  own choice of language and best-of-breed middleware stack.<\/p>\n<p>In this post, I\u2019ll try to provide more insight into our current and  future plans around OpenStack, and more specifically our joint  collaboration with the Citrix OpenCloud initiative.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natishalom.typepad.com\/nati_shaloms_blog\/2011\/04\/gigaspaces-openstack-explained.html\" target=\"_blank\">Rest of Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nati Shalom from GigaSpaces posted a blog today, &#8220;GigaSpaces OpenStack Explained.&#8221; From the post, One of the major concerns of many IT organizations is cloud vendor lock-in. This concern was expressed recently in &#8220;Banks fear cloud vendor lock-in,&#8221; from IT Wire: The onset of cloud computing gives vendors the chance to lock customers in to&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/nati-shalom-gigaspaces-openstack-explained\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Nati Shalom &#8211; GigaSpaces OpenStack Explained\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,60],"tags":[160,159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}