Adaptive Computing was on site at this year’s OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, Georgia. By the time this post arrives on Adaptive Computing’s blog, many will have read all the juicy details, but we wanted to point out a few items from this year’s summit that we believe are indicators to OpenStack’s permanent success.
Number of Conference Attendees – Just a short 18 months ago, this conference for developers and users saw only 1,200 attendees, albeit an enthusiastic 1,200 folks. This year’s conference saw a record 4,500 attendees. The sheer number of folks attending was energetic, continuing to show Adaptive Computing that our customers are interested in leveraging the OpenStack platform. If anyone had doubts about OpenStack in the enterprise, they had better reconsider.
A rich development base – During the opening keynote, Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation, asked for folks to stand if “Icehouse,” the codename for the recently-released version of OpenStack, marked their first contribution to the codebase. A very large number of developers stood up, indicating an ever-growing number of developers contributing to OpenStack’s success. Furthering our point about Enterprise adoption, this rich development base allows new feature development to progress rapidly. It’s our feeling that this development ecosystem will continue to deliver key features for OpenStack.
The Changing IT Organization – Another persistent theme in the opening keynote revolved around the ever-changing delivery of IT resources and tools. With OpenStack now a permanent fixture in the Enterprise, we see changes in the traditional methods by which IT organizations deliver value to their internal customers. Chris Launey, Director of Cloud Services and Architecture at Walt Disney Company discussed the adage that, given a choice among fast, cheap, and good, you could pick only two. But the new reality, according to Mr. Launey, is that “if you give somebody enough fast, they can make their own cheap. You can make your own good by shrinking your own dev cycles.” IT organizations are significantly reducing their development cycles by leveraging OpenStack. Tasks and requests that historically took days or weeks are being delivered on-demand via OpenStack. Spinning up test servers or farms of said servers becomes trivial for customers of the hybrid IT groups that rely on OpenStack. OpenStack is giving users their “Fast” and empowering them to make their own “Good.”
In summary, Adaptive Computing continues to see massive progress from OpenStack in the Enterprise space. We believe enterprise organizations will continue to turn towards OpenStack to empower business groups with the tools they need to be successful. The continuous and immediate delivery of traditional IT services speeds the business as a whole. This, combined with the rapid delivery of needed features from the large and active OpenStack community, contributes to what Adaptive Computing believes is a strong position in the enterprise software market. HPC users should also note that Adaptive Computing is preparing an early availability for Beta customers to integrate with OpenStack. Look for traditional Moab HPC job scheduling using OpenStack with the new 8.0 release.
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