OpenStack enters its second epoch

Premise: Rolling your own private cloud using OpenStack has been a high risk strategy for the vast majority of enterprises. The first five years of OpenStack’s life, the first epoch, was characterised by over-marketing and under-execution, founders going out of business (Nebula Inc), diversifying away (Rackspace), losing talent (PistonCloud’s CTO moving to Pivotal) or being acquired by […]