BACKGROUND IMAGE: iSTOCK/GETTY IMAGES

Modern Infrastructure

OpenStack infrastructure turns to containers
In This Issue

oporkka - Fotolia

Evaluate Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.

OpenStack trends on Twitter reveal the good, bad and ugly

OpenStack is still a hot topic in the cloud world, but user response remains mixed -- especially in the Twittersphere. Here's what IT pros have to say.

Modern Infrastructure Staff

OpenStack has had some growing pains since its first release in October 2010, but remains a popular open source option for cloud. Enterprises and cloud providers are attracted to OpenStack because of the control and flexibility it provides them when developing cloud services -- but it's not without its challenges.

On Twitter, OpenStack trends emerge, with some praising the freedom from vendor lock-in and others complaining about deployment. OpenStack is trying to address these challenges with each new update, including the most recent version, Mitaka. But a lack of support still causes some users to seek answers from the IT community.

Here are some recent OpenStack trends and questions surfacing on Twitter:

Article 2 of 8
This was last published in June 2016

Dig Deeper on Open source cloud computing

Start the conversation

Send me notifications when other members comment.

Register

Please create a username to comment.

Get More Modern Infrastructure

Access to all of our back issues View All

-ADS BY GOOGLE

SearchServerVirtualization

SearchVMware

SearchVirtualDesktop

SearchAWS

SearchDataCenter

SearchWindowsServer

Close