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Openstack technology event in Silicon Valley pre-event thought leadership crowd conversation.
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OSpod
What's the biggest barrier for the enterprise in adopting an OpenStack cloud and what are some lessons learned from successful enterprise implementations?
Steve Noble
Storage configuration is not simple
Robert Cathey
Biggest learning: "enterprise" is not monolithic
Jesse Proudman
Recognizing cloud means more than advanced virtualization. Once that mind-shift occurs, the barriers quickly dissolve.
Steve Noble
Storage configuration is not simple
Robert Cathey
Some enterprises want to get into the hardware, but most simply want to consume the resources.
Scott Sanchez
More than anything else, mindset is slowing down enterprise adoption. Trying to take the new way and make it fit an old mold.
John Furrier
@robertcathey to me it's all about reference implementations and cultural mindset to move to hybrid now
Steve Noble
Storage configuration is not simple
Scott Sanchez
Almost like saying "Hey, we bought a plane to move faster but our policies don't allow us to use a runway."
Jesse Proudman
There is significant enterprise adoption today. Unfortunately, "the enterprise" isn't often fond of publicly discussing their technology strategies. Makes it hard for the community to distribute more user stories.
HPE Cloud
@furrier Does this mean Private vs Public battle is over and Hybrid won?
Robert Cathey
Also, enterprises ARE adopting. Fast. http://superuser.ope...
John Furrier
In our #devops chat this morning we talked about automation here is the transcript of that chat http://www.via-cc.at...
Clouderati on DevOps
Thought leader conversation on DevOps and Cloud. People and tools - good patterns v. anti-patterns
OSpod
I'm also seeing a skills gap in the enterprise. Any thoughts on how to ramp up OpenStack skills for existing talent?
Scott Sanchez
Agree with @blueboxjesse - there's really a lot of enterprise adoption. We see more of it every 6 months on stage at the summits. https://www.openstac...
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Robert Cathey
@furrier Interesting how most enterprises embracing OpenStack are doing it b/c they want "more better faster," not "your mess for less."
Paul Gillin
Is there confusion over how open OpenStack really is?
Robert Cathey
Some enterprises are going the managed/hosted route to avoid the skills gap altogether.
Jesse Proudman
The enterprise should consider other OpenStack consumption methodologies. Distributions and DIY require scarce skill sets that aren't required by other types of consumption.
Paul Gillin
Enterprise-wide adoption or pockets in enterprises? Adoption usually begins with pilots
Sean M. Collins
@scottsanchez Biggest barrier to adoption is just fear of unknown or refusal to adapt to new trends. Don't think that their app or workload is suited for the cloud, or refuse to change to work on cloud
Scott Sanchez
Paul: Some companies are looking to sell a proprietary OpenStack on proprietary linux on proprietary hardware. That's where the confusion comes from IMO.
Tim Bell
We need to be realistic in the ability of enterprises (and their software providers) to rewrite their applications to be cloud aware. The on-ramp is currently very binary.
OSpod
@blueboxjesse Should the enterprise outsource their OpenStack environment first and learn how to grow and scale it?
Jesse Proudman
That's the best approach. Doing so empowers them to focus on using OpenStack, not working ON OpenStack.
Jesse Proudman
Not every enterprise has 20 engineers to dedicate to their OpenStack environment. Nor should they.
John Furrier
Question: What host OS does HP distro run on? Will it work on RHEL?
HPE Cloud
We run on a version of Linux created by HP.
Boris Renski
@hphelioncloud I hear it is based on Debian
Boris Renski
Will RH certify RHEL to run on top of Debian based HP Helion distro?
HPE Cloud
@zer0tweets I do not know the answer to that. Prod Mgmt would be a good contact for that
Dave Vellante
@zer0tweets pretty sure that rhat won't certify at this pt
Crowd Captain
Question: will HP Helion distribution play nice with other, non-HP vendors... like Dell for instance via Boris @zer0tweets
HPE Cloud
Yes, HP Helion is proud to be a community member and our Community Edition solution will be tested on all hardware, not just HP
Jesse Proudman
@hphelioncloud All hardware? That's a challenging proposition and one of the largest obstacles of distributions. I'd love to hear more about the real life implementation of such wide spread testing.
Lisa-Marie Namphy
All about open open open baby! :)
HPE Cloud
@blueboxjesse It was part of the announcement. Will look for link on more info about this testing.
HPE Cloud
@blueboxjesse The FAQ at https://docs.hpcloud... has an answer on that question for you
Robert Cathey
Do users really want "all hardware" options, or just "my hardware" option?
John Furrier
Sam Greenblatt was all over VMworld pumping up Dell converged solutions
Jesse Proudman
@robertcathey The problem is that "my hardware" ends up meaning all hardware when you sell into such a wide marketplace.
HPE Cloud
@robertcathey I think my hardware but options is nice to customers looking for choice
HPE Cloud
@blueboxjesse The FAQ says we will release a list of tested hardware from several vendors. Agreed on the word "all" being too wide
Steve
Current list is still HP only ( https://docs.hpcloud... ), let's see if that changes in time.
Lisa-Marie Namphy
Well, there's "will it work" vs "will it be supported"? Different things. ;)
Steve
@HPCloudAngel Well, what does "support" mean in the context of a community edition? FAQ answer notably avoids discussing product/enterprise version.
Scott Sanchez
User stories are my favorite part of OpenStack events... vendor megaphones are loud, but user voices are what people remember!
Jesse Proudman
What User Stories are you excited about hearing at this event?
Robert Cathey
@blueboxjesse The SDN case studies should be interesting.
John Furrier
what user voices are you expecting to hear at the event?
Scott Sanchez
Agree with @robertcathey - I think we'll hear about a new batch of end-user customers, and the hallway conversations with those users is always great!
HPE Cloud
Good point, the hallway talk is great and even better, user feedback can drive product improvements
Robert Cathey
I'm sure you'll have some interesting user stories to share as well. ;-)
John Furrier
@rayno just had an #SNDChat this morning maybe he can weigh in on this
Scott Sanchez
@robertcathey Sure will! And @metacloudinc will have a number of our bay area customers attending as well...
Lisa-Marie Namphy
Our customers are excited about attending this event also. Physically AND virtually. @furrier are we live streaming?
Paul Gillin
Philips will no longer invest in hardware, will pay only for usage. Suppliers have to get on board or lose out. http://siliconangle....
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