Cloud.com: Open Source Meets Hybrid Clouds?

Hundreds of vendors are trying to cash in on cloud computing. But only one company owns the Cloud.com domain. And Chief Marketing Officer Peder Ulander wants to ensure customers and partners understand Cloud.com's business strategy.

In a TalkinCloud FastChat video , Ulander describes how Cloud.com customers already leverage hybrid cloud solutions. Ulander also describes how open source will unlock new cloud opportunities for customers. And he touches on Cloud.com's strategic relationships with RightScale andOpenstack

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AMong Cloud.com's latest win: KT, Korea's largest telephone service provider, will use Cloud.com's CloudStack public and private cloud platform to power their KT ucloud IaaS offering, currently in beta. The really interesting wrinkle:, KT and Cloud.com claim customers will pay up to 60% less for KT ucloud than they would for Amazon Web Services. Much of the savings will involve reduced electricity needs; the KT data centers — which will include Nexenta, Intel, andCitrix solutions — will draw up to 60 percent less power compared to alternatives.

Apparently, this isn't KT's first collaboration with Cloud.com. Indeed, CloudStack powers the company's internal private cloud, which employees use for everything from documents to television.