| | April 20176CIOReviewCopyright © 2017 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.CIOReviewAPRIL 25 - 2017Mailing AddressCIOReview44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.402.1463, F:510-894-8405 APRIL 25 - 2017, Vol 06 SE 48 - Published by ValleyMedia, Inc. To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com OpenStack SpecialCIOReviewEditorial StaffSalesAaron Pierce Joshua Parker Kyle SummersAva Garcia Karuna Gautam Sarah Fernandes Mary Elizabethmary@cioreview.comT: 510.402.1463VisualizersDave BrownManaging EditorJeevan GeorgeEditorialK. Manoj KumarOpenStack has come of age. With 15 releases from the day NASA and Rackspace developed the project in 2010, the question of whether this open source cloud computing platform is enterprise-ready is nonexistent. From being the go-to tool for telecommunication companies to transforming scientific research across the world, OpenStack is now being leveraged by the likes of Walmart, Comcast, PayPal, Yahoo, Volkswagen, CERN, AT&T, and China Mobile--quickly becoming the de-facto standard for open source private cloud deployments.With more than 200 companies--including Oracle, Rackspace, Red Hat, Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, and Intel--contributing to the OpenStack code, revenue from the platform is expected to exceed $5 billion by 2020; a near fivefold increase from $1.27 billion in 2015. While these figures might be minuscule compared to that of public cloud giants like AWS and Microsoft, OpenStack fills the gaps that other vendors fail to cater to. For instance, PayPal relies on OpenStack to make its online financial technology more agile and reduce the time taken to deploy a new app from eight weeks to 17 minutes. OpenStack enables them to do hundreds of code releases a day, as opposed to one big code release every six months.Moreover, being open source, companies can steer clear of vendor lock-in and seamlessly switch between different distributions. It also gives them the ability to be in complete control of their ecosystem--evident in the case of Walmart, a leading OpenStack implementer with 213,000 cores running on the open source cloud platform. Such large scale implementations are certain to peak the C-suite's interest in OpenStack.And with the recent release of Ocata, the 15th version of the open source cloud infrastructure software, OpenStack brought stabilization, scalability, maturity, and performance to the core compute and networking services. With Ocata, OpenStack continues to increase its support for container-based application frameworks and deployment tools.While the benefits of OpenStack are numerous, it does come with its own set of challenges. Its deployment can be tedious and top OpenStack talent does not come by easily. Add to it the maintenance and patching issues, and the value of third-party OpenStack experts come to the fore.At this juncture, CIOReview presents its OpenStack special edition, featuring insights from industry thought leaders and solutions from innovative technology providers. We hope this edition is valuable in helping you optimize your OpenStack deployment. Jeevan George Managing Editoreditor@cioreview.comPowerful, Scalable, Transformative
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