CloudStack vs. OpenStack: Real World versus Emerging
I agree with the sentiment of this article.
If you are thinking of deploying a private cloud or a hybrid cloud, CloudStack is a solution that you can use today. OpenStack is an emerging solution that you will be able to use some day. It seems to have the ideas and even implementation but it is not firm and is not easy to implement.
Small and medium companies will need to see where OpenStack is in six months, and since OpenStack is a standard not a product, you will need to find products that have the feature sets you need.
This is not to say that OpenStack does not have potential, because it does. It is just to say you can't deploy potential to production. If you need to deploy something soon, then CloudStack is a good pick.
Since CloudStack will be supporting OpenStack and it is a product you can use today, it seems like a good pick today. Also its support of OpenStack will make it a good pick for the future.
So it seems like you will have three turnkey solutions for OpenStack: CloudStack, Project Olympus and Piston Cloud.
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