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Openstack technology event in Silicon Valley pre-event thought leadership crowd conversation.
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#OpenstackSVOpenStack Silicon ValleyOpenstack technology event in Silicon Valley event thought leadership crowd conversation.
John Furrier
Capital Markets are hot in #cloud; Question: Who is the next company to get acquired in OpenStack?
Robert Cathey
Ha! Fishing for tips? :-)
Lisa-Marie Namphy
Blue box (are you ready for that Jess?)
Jesse Proudman
I believe you'll see a huge wave of new financing and market consolidation in #OpenStack in the next 18 months.
Robert Cathey
@HPCloudAngel Argh! My afternoon as all planned out, and now you've ruined it!
Jesse Proudman
@HPCloudAngel I'll look for a term sheet in my email later today.
Boris Renski
the more interesting question is who is the next big company to make an OpenStack acquisition
John Furrier
@zer0tweets That is great question
Boris Renski
VMware just announced their distribution, so they will likely wait it out for a while
John Furrier
@zer0tweets I see VMware embracing openstack and docker as testiment to the open model that customers want I would see VMware doing some deal in the space esp with Cloudfoundry trying to find it's legs
Jesse Proudman
@zer0tweets @furrier Look at the OpenStack Platinum Sponsor list. I expect you'll see news from each before the end of 2015.
Paul Gillin
Where is Cisco in all this? Their silence is deafening.
Boris Renski
OK... who will remain independent 18 months from now. @scottsanchez - Metacloud will probably still be out there? We, at Mirantis, also... who else?
John Furrier
@pgillin Cisco is tweaking their plans while SDN is really changing fast - #vmworld there were lots of discussion. anyone else have thoughts?
Niki Acosta
@zer0tweets I wonder if the NSA knows.
Lisa-Marie Namphy
HP will still be out there. ;)
John Furrier
@blueboxjesse top sponsors are HP, Nebula, Juniper, Brocade, and A10; hmm Juniper and Brocade merging?
Steve Noble
ugh.. Juniper and Brocade.. not a good mix imho.
Steve Noble
ugh.. Juniper and Brocade.. not a good mix imho.
Lisa-Marie Namphy
@zer0tweets Who/which (type of) customers are you seeing signing up for this event? Architects? Developers? Just curious who will be there.
Boris Renski
It is largely similar to the crowd of the bigger OpenStack Summit. 50% ecosystem; 30% adopters in SaaS/Web 2.0 space; 20% enterprise
John Furrier
I had interesting conversation with @vmware CEO Pat Gelsinger he said at DockerCon most attendees are IT guys/gals
Lisa-Marie Namphy
I like the DevOps focus to some of the tracks/sessions.
Lisa-Marie Namphy
I bet you'll get a bunch of developers attending. I've been plugging it in our meetups. :) (App developers AND stackers)
HPE Cloud
When talking Enterprise, what is the standard definition that OpenStack Community is using?
Paul Gillin
"Cloud platform," I would think.
HPE Cloud
@pgillin thanks for reply, I was thinking size of company? Is enterprise only Fortune 500 or something smaller?
Paul Gillin
It varies, but for non-retail, over $1B is considered pretty big. I'd say >$5B is true enterprise.
Paul Gillin
What the key messages HP wants to deliver about OpenStack?
HPE Cloud
@pgillin Sure thing, Home page is http://www8.hp.com/u...
Helion OpenStack Overview | HP® Official Site
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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...
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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.