| | December 20198CIOReviewIN MY OPINIONCIOs SHOULDN'T SEE OPENSTACK AND PUBLIC CLOUDS AS AN EITHER/OR PROPOSITIONBy Shelton Shugar, CIO, Barclaycard [NYSE:BCS-D]With over 20+ million lines of codes and over 30,000 people in the community, OpenStack has easily gained adoption across a variety of industries and proved its viability and reliability for production environments. It has become the fastest growing open source cloud project and an alternative to the public cloud.Why is it Valuable to Enterprises? OpenStack provides a hardware abstraction layer that allows the programming of infrastructure through APIs. The OS platform allows the simple provisioning of infrastructure like servers, networking and disk as well as cloud building blocks like availability zones, software defined networking and monitoring. Many of the capabilities of public clouds are provided as part of the OS ecosystem.Organizations in the financial services industry have leveraged OpenStack to accelerate development and infrastructure provisioning within their private clouds. Barclaycard has used OpenStack to fully automate the provisioning of application environments using build
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