The Cloud Faceoff!
The stage was set for a lively debate between public cloud rivals at GigaOM Structure in San Francisco Thursday – representatives from Citrix, Eucalyptus and the OpenStack project certainly delivered. Nebula CEO and OpenStack co-founder Chris Kemp didn’t even get past the introductions before he challenged his fellow panelists on their “closed†cloud implementations and embrace of Amazon Web Services’ API, which he compared to the Walmart of infrastructure.