Ireland and Sweden sales visit for this week completed. Next week in US to close the contextual research project on desktop virtualization.

RT @cloudpundit: RAX commitment to run #OpenStack 2-4 weeks off trunk is meaningful and a big plus.

RT @kylehilgendorf: #OpenStack wants to be the enterprise IaaS…then that means they ARE competing with VMware and AWS…plain and simple.

RT @kylehilgendorf: Deutsche Telecom: “Legal, compliance, and security remain top cloud concerns in Germany.” #OpenStack

@mccrory Not disagreeing on 1st part but you said PaaS is very early. Do you really think industry will mature faster there than on VM port?

@mccrory So if they want to migrate VMs around, are we going to suggest “wait to be ready for PaaS”? 🙂 /cc @samj

@mccrory IMO there’s an assumption that customers are ready/want to go PaaS. I’m not seeing this. But I see interest in portability. @samj

“@ACaviglion: @a_perilli AWS is not the Bible…” < but it's widely adopted. So we have to figure out who and how will address the issue.

“@samj: “We don’t need to be compatible with the AWS APIs” — Rackspace CTO” < Fine. What's the strategy for workload portability then?

“@alfwebcom: Or the apple app store for biz?” < I heard so many times... Different audience, different attitude, different challenges.