[jonesetc]

> or use buzz-stuff such as OpenStack (hello Rackspace, HPCloud!)

Maybe I misread the tone of this post or I'm fuzzy on the history, but it sounds like you're saying Rackspace is trying to be hip by jumping on the hype-train. My understanding is that Rackspace co-created [1] Openstack and let it out into the wild.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStack#History

[Nux]

What I meant is Rackspace (also RedHat, HP, Mirantis etc) would have you believe that if you're not running Openstack then your "cloud" is shit and has no future. DO clearly demonstrated otherwise.

They're inflating the hype because they generate $$$ this way - from their public cloud, private deployments, training, certifications etc etc. Nothing wrong with that I guess, it's business.

[gaadd33]

Does Digital Ocean's "cloud" offer all the same things that OpenStack does? I've been looking for another file storage provider (like S3/CloudFiles/Azure Files) but wasn't aware there were any other options than OpenStack based.

[mjn]

Joyent has one as well (not OpenStack-based), with an interesting "integrated compute" option where you can send code to run over stored objects without spinning up an explicit compute instance: http://www.joyent.com/products/manta

I don't think DO offers any kind of a-la-carte cloud storage, though.

[nl]

OpenStack is working on a "send the code to the data" thing too. That's what Rackspace bought ZeroVM for.

If you want to try very alpha code you can kinda get it working yourself now (I think - based on mailing list discussion anyway)

[Nux]

Check https://www.greenqloud.com/storageqloud/

They run Cloudstack for compute, but not sure what they run for storage.

[bananas]

Agree with your assertion here. We've been approached by a couple of vendors to try and sell us OpenStack but it doesn't really buy us much.

DO is what we need, except self hosted and supporting windows.

[pbreit]

I disagree with your post in general but was particularly confused by this point. Aren't openstack and buzzyness exactly the thing you're deriding?

And I disagree that DO is missing technical chops.

[dmourati]

I actually think they are right. If you are not AWS (Google or Microsoft), and you are not embracing OpenStack, you are an also ran and you will be irrelevant.