When I first wrote about OpenStack in 2015, I described the open-source, private-cloud software effort as “the mother of all learning opportunities.” At that time, too many vendors had jumped on the OpenStack bandwagon, leading to a proliferation of poorly integrated projects and a dearth of enterprise deployments.
I recently attended the OpenStack Foundation’s freshly rechristened Open Infrastructure Summit (OIS), known as the OpenStack Summit in days past. In spite of the optimistic name, this conference was notably smaller than previous ones—and the number of vendors driving the effort had similarly slimmed down.
The conference’s smaller size, however, belied the level of support for OpenStack, or in any case, for some of its numerous projects.
Across industries, enterprises reported extensive production deployments of core OpenStack projects, including Swift and Cinder for storage, Neutron for networking, and Nova and Ironic for compute.
Many of the other projects, in contrast, are now languishing out of the limelight, or playing relatively minor support roles to the storage, networking, and compute capabilities that make up the essential elements of any private cloud.
The success of core OpenStack projects in the enterprise, however, wasn’t the most exciting takeaway from OIS. The real news is what the telecommunications industry is doing with OpenStack—especially at the edge.
Here’s what your team needs to know about today’s OpenStack.
Read the entire article at https://techbeacon.com/enterprise-it/openstack-now-building-clouds-edge.
None of the organizations mentioned in this article are currently Intellyx customers. The Open Infrastructure Summit provided Jason Bloomberg with a free pass to the event, a standard industry practice.
