Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth takes aim at VMware and Red Hat at OpenStack Summit
Summary
Closing out the opening keynote at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, Canada , Shuttleworth started out by sticking the boot into VMware, saying some of the public cloud communities biggest players are turning away from its technology because of how costly it is to use.To capitalise on this trend, the firm is in the throes of rolling out a migration service to help users shift from VMware to a “fully managed” version of Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack distribution, which Shuttleworth said costs half as much to run.As well as being half as expensive as VMware, Shuttleworth then went on to say his company is also usurping rival OpenStack distribution provider, Red Hat, in the affections of enterprise IT buyers on cost grounds.As an example, he cited the cost of running Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform, which is pitched as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering to enterprises.Google, Microsoft and IBM are also using Ubuntu to underpin their Kubernetes offerings, he added, which is another reason why he said enterprises are favouring its technology over Red Hat’s.
