A Journey to OpenStack Lessons Learned from Early Adopters
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A Journey to OpenStack Lessons Learned from Early Adopters
Agatha PoonResearch Manager, Global Cloud Computing
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Agenda
Where is the opportunity?
What can OpenStack do?
Why should we care?
Key takeaways
OpenStack regional snapshot
Well Developed East Asia & Pacific Countries Investment attention focusing
on transformational markets of Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand.
Consolidation opportunities ongoing in IT savvy economies (Australia, Japan, Korea)
The learning curve remains steep, but commercial deployments exist, driven by local cloud/hosting/managed service providers
OpenStack is used by academia for the deployment of public/private/hybrid clouds
Fast Growing China and India Strong government support for
innovation and balanced growth A wealth of talent-strong
engineering and technical skills Chinese providers are eager to
productize OpenStack-based services and technologies.
OpenStack initiatives in India are backed by global technology giants and US-based vendors. Early adopters – Academia, Government
Emerging ASEAN and other South Asian economies Growing choice in outsourcing locations, with Malaysia,
Philippines, and Vietnam building credentials Sri Lanka leads the South Asian region in terms of
human development indicators In learning phase Vendor-driven projects and training programs Early adopters-tech-savvy IT segment
83%
Enterprise cloud journey
Cisco UCSNetApp FlexPodVCE VblockHP CloudSystem MatrixIBM PureSystemsDell Active System
Source: InfoPro cloud computing, Wave 5
Exciting Vendors, Technologies and Initiatives
EMC
IBM
OpenStack
Amazon.com
VMware
Microsoft
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
5%
8%
16%
24%
25%
29%
Source: InfoPro cloud computing, Wave 5
Growth catalystsTrustworthy
Visibility
Security
No vendor lock-in
“OpenStack is very exciting. We continue to use VMware for traditional environment.”
Large Enterprise, Services: Business/Accounting/Engineering
“We use Chef for the orchestration layer……..and a bunch of other stuff. OpenStack is being examined to convert to at some layers.”
Large Enterprise, Financial Services
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Automated Network Provisioning
Automated Middleware Provisioning
Metering/ Billing Across Internal/ Ex-ternal/ Hybrid Clouds
Automated Storage Provisioning
Cloud Platform/Orchestration Stack
Cloud Performance Management/Moni-toring
Automated Server Provisioning
12%
16%
20%
24%
34%
36%
47%
6%
5%
5%
6%
18%
8%
11%
12%
6%
16%
13%
17%
14%
13%
60%
67%
57%
52%
27%
39%
26%
9%
6%
3%
5%
5%
2%
2%
In Use Now Short-term Plan Longer-term Plan Not in Plan Don't Know
On-premise, Private Cloud Platform, Management and Automation Roadmap
Source: InfoPro cloud computing, Wave 5
An evolving landscape of OpenStack vendor ecosystem
Opportunities exist to test, secure, integrate, and orchestrate
disparate cloud assets – for enterprises and service providers.
NSPs/SIsOpenStack Distributors
DevOpsIT Services & TurnkeySolutionsOpenStack
Service Providers
PaaS on OpenStack
Hardware/Softwarevendors
OpenStack with other
clouds
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Global OpenStack market sizing ($m)
Source: 451 Research Market Monitor, October 2013
OpenStack service providers segment is the top revenue generator (E2013: $486m)
Strong uptick in revenue is expected from OpenStack distributors (8.4% in 2014 from 3.5% in 2012)
2012-2016 CAGR: 43%
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
$399
$622
$895
$1,237
$1,671
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Projected revenue in 2013: By vendor type
Open-Stack
Service Providers 78%
Open-Stack dis-
tribu-tors 8%
IT Services & turnkey solutions 5% Vendor by category Vendor count
PaaS on OpenStack 7
OpenStack service providers 14
DevOps 5
OpenStack with other clouds 3Network service/Equipment providers 7
OpenStack distributors 4IT Services & Turnkey solutions 8
Source: 451 Research Market Monitor, October 2013
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OpenStack-based private cloud, bespoke deployment and consulting It took over a year to productize OpenStack-
based offerings It’s an ongoing efforts due to a very long
development cycle
Implementation challenges Overcoming product immaturity and lack of
real testing performed on the code base Making sure patches run against production
sites and not devstack is paramount
Key lessons learned “You are insane to blindly follow release”
Tristan Goode, CEO at Aptira
Customers/ Use cases 10 deployments (6 of them are based on
existing offerings, 4 deployments are based on a mix of in-house expertise and third-party OpenStack products
Dev/ test PoC for scalability and federation Collaborative research Data analytics
Aptira has been self-funded, but is looking to raise external funding to grow and own the OpenStack service provider space in India and across Asia-Pacific.
OpenStack-compatible product FusionSphere R3C10, the virtualization platform
within Fusion Cloud Next release-FusionSphere R5-will be based on
all OpenStack components: compute, network, storage, and management services
>1,000 engineers are involved in Fusion Cloud project
Implementation challenges Not enterprise-ready yet Incorporating all existing enterprise-level
features into OpenStack, along with enhancing the compatibility of underneath virtualization platform
Key lessons learned The ability to understand the disadvantages/
weaknesses of OpenStack is instrumental in driving successful deployments
Addressing issues related to software upgrade and business migration
Customers Gaining traction in the telecom and
entertainment sectors, working with the top three Chinese telecom carriers
More than a dozen POCs around the globe
Huawei will first bring OpenStack to enterprises and telecom customers. The ultimate goal is to become the Openstack enterprise solution provider.
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NTT Communications
NTT Communications will focus on enhancing service functions to support intranet users within and between business organizations.
Product verification based on OpenStack-components
• ~80 engineers and 450 patches• Use cases - office migration and flexible virtual
office environment• Targeting Arcstar Universal One (VPN) users, the
company has recently released a cloud service based on OpenStack.
Implementation challenges• Error handling and transaction processing• Multi-plugin for Neutron to address issues
associated with concurrent use of multiple modules
• Constant bug-fixing during internal testing
Key lessons learned •Community-based OpenStack lacks error processing function, which is indispensable for service providers•Community-based development effort is crucial to minimize development costs
Customers• It was released less than a week.
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eNovance are currently expanding its operations worldwide, replicating business processes in many different geographies. Primary focus for 2014
is to grow its existing customer base outside of Europe.
eNoCloud •The continuous delivery of new features could be challenging- it took approximately three months to setup eNocloud, but one year to reorganize engineering around the notion of continuous delivery•Entire development team (~25) involved in various OpenStack projects•One of the top ten contributors to OpenStack for the past three releases
Implementation challenges
•OpenStack feature gaps still exist
•Managing growth while maintaining core values, and being able to evolve at its own pace
Key lessons learned Stay agile Think out of the box - enforce its belief in open
source without becoming just another service company
Customers• Some 200 clients ( consulting, managed services,
and hosting) • Safran/Morpho-OpenStack private cloud • Cloudwatt-Openstack public cloud
• Consider eNoCloud as the demonstrator of its technology know-how, and a way to validate its development
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The missing links: Who should take the lead?
Accelerating the commercial use of OpenStack using a well-defined, secure framework and standardized management processes.
Missing linksOpenStack Talent
Limited functionality
Fragmentation within the OpenStack community
Proven productions are scarce
Industry consortia?
The Foundation?
LargeEnterprises?
Individualcommunity
users?
Leading vendors/service
providers?
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Key takeaways
Enterprise interest and demand have emerged as a main drivers for new projects.
The crossover and convergence of enterprises and service providers offers vendors an opportunity to serve both markets.
There are a handful of commercial deployments in Asia-Pacific, and the market for OpenStack is still defining itself.
Global revenues for OpenStack-based offerings are relatively small today, but we expect them to grow rapidly.
Demand for OpenStack expertise and experience presents itself as a major challenge.
Publications Long-form report: The OpenStack Tipping Point, April 2013 Market Insight report: OpenStack-related business revenue to exceed $1bn
by 2015 as commercial models evolve, October 22, 2013
Questions? [email protected]