OpenStack 2016: Boom or Bust? - Adrian Ionel, CEO, Mirantis - OpenStackSV 2014
- 1. OpenStack 2016
Boom or Bust?
Adrian Ionel
CEO, Mirantis
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- 4. However, AWS still run-away
winner
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- 5. Digital Ocean on a meteoric
rise
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- 6. How developers feel about
Digital Ocean
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- 8. In the end Developers
Win.
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- 9. So, we have to ask:
Is OpenStack for DIY dead-enders?
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- 10. What do developers care
about?
● Deployment’s choice of monitoring software
● Which hypervisor is used underneath
● Scalability of the network layer
● Which storage system is used for volumes
● API quality and ease of use
● Feature velocity
● Portability
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- 11. What to do?
1. Focus on the APIs as the key to adoption
2. Invest in ease of use vs. even more flexible
plumbing
3. Don’t move up the stack. Partner instead.
4. Reshape upstream engineering to foster open
competition (vs. central planning)
5. Enable workload mobility to other platforms
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