| | November 20156CIOReviewCopyright © 2015 CIOReview. 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.CIOReviewNOVEMBER 11 - 2015Mailing AddressCIOReview44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.402.1463, F:510-894-8405 NOVEMBER 11 - 2015, Volume 4 SE 95 Published by CIOReview To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com Editorial StaffSalesT:510.565.7559 VisualizersStephen ThomasK.Manoj kumarOPENSTACK SPECIALCIOReviewDavid Edward david@cioreview.comManaging EditorJeevan GeorgeAaron Pierce Joe PhilipMatthew JacobAlex D'SouzaKyle SummersSamden SherpaCharting an effective migration strategy to the cloud, a critical criterion for today's enterprise competitiveness is more endearing with the promise of OpenStack's free, open source, cloud computing platform. Hundreds of leading enterprises efficiently and costeffectively run their businesses every day, riding on OpenStack's strong ecosystem. The core of OpenStack enables easy addition of new instances on the platform to provide an exceedingly flexible Infrastructure as a Service middleware interface to the datacenter. The compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter while managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API make it ideal for heterogeneous infrastructure.With the current rate of cloud adoption gathering momentum, dual set of use cases augment the popularity of OpenStack. Infrastructure-as-a-Service providers peg it on OpenStack's Data Center virtualization, private cloud initiatives as well as for Public Cloud as an alternative to VMware and AWS.Though networking has always been a part of the OpenStack cloud platform, at the recently held OpenStack Summit in Tokyo, Mark Collier, COO of the OpenStack Foundation, emphasized on Neutron networking project being in the lead at the recent OpenStack Liberty release cycle. With top five networking vendors in the world working on OpenStack, it is also adjudged as the fundamental component for pursuing SDN and NFV.The odds are heavily tilted in favor of OpenStack--deciphering the true merits of its design and the challenges it solves determine its true potential in the cloud landscape. Transitioning to OpenStack has never been so easy, with numerous providers and consultants who help determine the right time and solution from the different OpenStack-powered products and services that simplify deployments and provide services at a reduced cost. Leafing through these pages will give you insights and expert knowhow on OpenStack and its profound impact on the cloud services landscape.On that note, we present to you the 20 most promising OpenStack Solution Providers 2015. Jeevan George Managing Editoreditor@cioreview.comDelivering On the True Promise of the CloudEditorialSonia Sachar
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