OpenStack – Lawrence Hecht

cloud customers are not taking advantage of discounts as often as they were in 2020 and 2021

March 10, 2022February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Bad Cloud Computing News: OpenStack Use Plummets and Discounts Dry Up

In 2021, 52% of AWS customers got a discount on AWS reserved instances, now only 36% do. In 2021, 48% of Google Cloud customers negotiated an ad hoc discount; in 2022, only 10%.

Container managers like Kubernetes threaten existing cloud markets

June 30, 2017February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

Private Cloud and PaaS, Run for the Hills

The headline is a bit sarcastic, but the concern is real. If you use containers, then you’re likely to believe container orchestrators are a viable alternative to your current private cloud or PaaS platform. According to a survey of container users (by 451 Research, on behalf of CoreOS), 80 […]

April 28, 2017February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

OpenStack Supporting Clouds More, Software Dev/Test and CI Less

Some people think OpenStack is facing an existential crisis. The OpenStack Foundation’s latest User Survey reported its lowest Net Promoter Score (NPS) in two years. Many sessions at the upcoming OpenStack Summit in Boston will focus on the latest open source darling, Kubernetes. This does not mean OpenStack […]