In reply to CoreEdge.

Hi CoreEdge, I think OpenStack rocks and I am big fan. However, I believe it is not right to equal open cloud to OpenStack and any other cloud to VMware and therefore closed. Granted that OpenStack is perhaps the best path to having a cloud environment which offers a degree of portability and vendor independence, but it isn't THE only option. You can import VMs from VMWare environments to AWS for instance ... can't say any of them are open, but can't truly portray any of them as closed so long as they have a public API which is well documented and "free" to use.

Now in the context of this Cisco announcement, FC and OpenStack dont get along today, perhaps never will ... but again, there are many companies operating large virtualization environments and/or private cloud environments (with VMware and other options) which will benefit from better FC support. So I candidly disagree with your view that "Cloud" should be replaced with "VMware" on the post :-)