For some time now, critics have suggested that OpenStack may offer lower total cost of ownership, but fails to deliver on agility and uptime compared to other cloud solutions.

 A recent story on ReadWrite quoted industry insiders who suggested OpenStack is merely a way to “fool” senior management into believing that a company has moved to cloud computing. TechRepublic, meanwhile, stated that OpenStack remains too complex to offer real opportunities for innovation.

I talk to one of the OpenStack experts, Sam Charrington, about how he sees the role it should play in modern enterprise infrastructures, in this blog post.