Mark Hinkle is at the forefront of open source cloud through his work at Citrix on Apache CloudStack, OpenDaylight, and the Xen Project. In this interview, he discusses ongoing trends in the open source cloud industry.
Migrating to cloud solutions is a challenge for many businesses because it is widely different than the server-client model. Additionally, Open source is becoming well established in cloud services, meaning it’s important to understand how to leverage open source communities and how to build products that compliment the open source ecosystem to provide a source of revenue.