From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 3 01:15:18 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C619E2CA for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2014 01:15:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-x22a.google.com (mail-pd0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22a]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E9361907 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2014 01:15:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f170.google.com with SMTP id p10so6319236pdj.1 for ; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 17:15:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=o4PUyHKBYkphsUdtZF6hw7L4NtUDC7Zn+wiQ3GysTHw=; b=XHgULstdnrB4E9YJz9Rg+ZOTpEqPyPRwhXHT4tHy8ahlgVyLzX8R4SCHc1LomF5wah MEzXGNHVqrMZdE8rI4d6+3H12EcotM4QVYQX7aJOREEizBQQh1Y6NQ+tuzV09cq6TsIh /utuo4trXI+gZ8j4GLIUice5CKNcO9ItH2xr3JDwa6MY2OtSVSzA6eGHMtMNyGXR0gdT ZoGmDVzm49THvKpqYl2cT4xJ/JfrbqH0kDXLKmnICbJtmX5fWGpbbFSvpaAUBB3iFxd8 k9qLjED8BpbBlY+bwVw85vSBzgdGN7qkQ69pfOZ9+qO1wgKIYIfbr+gJqWrsft/I6mBM y6OA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.16.131 with SMTP id g3mr4398849pad.138.1391390118262; Sun, 02 Feb 2014 17:15:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.155.38 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Feb 2014 17:15:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2014 20:15:18 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: OT: How best to market FreeBSD's innate strengths as a cloud host? From: Aryeh Friedman To: "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 01:15:18 -0000 After dealing with linux for the last few days the difference between it and FreeBSD are glaring when it comes to suitability as a cloud the host OS of a cloud node/host. Most of these strengths come from it's fundimentally sound design and design process. Namely it is rock solid because it was designed to be rock solid (linux can not say this). This rock solidiness is what is needed for a cloud host because it is often the most likely point of failure in a cloud environment. How do we best market this? This might be just the route that FreeBSD as a whole has been looking for to get onto the radar of Corporate America upper management. One way I see to start is turning freebsd-openstack.orginto the portal we promised when we got it. Right now the only content I see for it is the series of tutorials I mentioned. The only other thing I can think of is a "logo gallery" of companies that use FreeBSD for cloud computing like services (internally or externally) and/or provide them. For example I think NetApp should be on the list (FNWE would be willing but we don't think we are big enough yet to make any difference). Any other content ideas? Also it would be nice to know who all is using FreeBSD for cloud computing so we can see how to populate logo gallery (looking at the logs for petitecloud.org I see some *VERY* big names but am wondering why some of them have not stepped forward) -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org