HP: Windows Server + OpenStack will lure biz bods from the Amazon

Re: It has finally happened

"The irony for Microsoft is that its closed-source operating system is being floated on an open-source project once billed as a Linux for the cloud."

You can run Microsoft Hyper-V Server under Openstack. There has been a NOVA driver for 2 years now and it scales better than KVM does. Not to mention that security patches are free unlike certain KVM flavours, and Hyper-V Server has had far fewer of them. Also it's a proper Hypervisor layer unlike KVM, which is a bolt on to a full OS kernel...

The only gap at the moment is that you can't run the controller node on Windows Server, but hopefully that will be fixed eventually.

It might be more the fact that M$ is supporting it. As in you can ring them up, make the ritual sacrifice and receive support for a migration to Helion instead of them