SUSE claims it’s got the first enterprise-supported private Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud solution powered by the Essex version of OpenStack, the open source platform that Red Hat is also supporting.
Red Hat’s widgetry, now in preview, won’t solidify until next year. SUSE’s is ready to roll.
It calls the stuff SUSE Cloud, which is supposed to be easier to deploy and manage than Rackspace’s OpenStack package because it’s integrated Crowbar in the thing.