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Walmart Open Sources Its Cloud Platform To Take On Amazon (walmartlabs.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-player-in-town dept.

Mickeycaskill writes: Walmart is effectively open sourcing its OneOps cloud platform, with the source code set to be uploaded to GitHub at the end of 2015. By making the cloud platform open source, Walmart is taking the fight to Amazon Web Services by giving developers a chance to avoid vendor lock-in. Walmart argues that OneOps has four main advantages: cloud portability, continuous lifecycle management, faster innovation, and great abstraction of cloud environments. The company says that the move should increase competition between cloud service vendors. "We're enabling any organization to achieve the same cloud portability and developer benefits that Walmart has enjoyed,"said Jeremy King, CTO of Walmart Global eCommerce and head of WalmartLabs.

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  1. Re: Has The Whole World Gone Topsy Turvy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Fail.

    Walmart is a tech company that happens to sell (a lot of) stuff. Walmart Information Systems Division is 3000+ people, including some highly trained developers, network and systems engineers, and information security specialists.

    It is one of the best tech firms I have worked for in my 35yr tech career. Don't believe me? Spend a week in Bentonville, AR (and another week in San Bruno, CA) and talk to some tech folks.

  2. Re:Has The Whole World Gone Topsy Turvy? by Trailer+Trash · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Walmart is doing something like $300,000,000,000 per year in sales now, yet I can buy something at a Walmart store, immediately go to a different store for a return and when they scan my receipt the order comes up immediately. All the while about $9500/second in transactions is being dumped into their database.

    Yes, they are a technology company.

    Amazon isn't as big but they're still doing amazing stuff, also a technology company.

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  3. Re:Has The Whole World Gone Topsy Turvy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wonder if their IT staff get locked into the datacenters at night.

  4. Walmart runs OpenStack by gurubert · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Walmart runs OpenStack (as can be seen here: https://www.openstack.org/summ... ). It will be interesting what they want to open source, maybe they have built a management layer on top of OpenStack or even their own "distribution".

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