Open Stack

Dear all,

Thanks for a great start.

I'm working with DZone for an OpenStack refcard which solves similar
purposes, but for a cloud admin. This will be a handy 5-6 pages guide and
expected to be out by end of March. It has a similar outline proposed here,
but has more commands/ code samples.

May be something like that would be handy here, but targeting business
managers/ executives.

Would that or a similar one help?

Thanks,
Sriram
On 6 Mar, 2015 9:01 am, "Sun, Yih Leong" <YihLeong.Sun at liberty-it.co.uk>
wrote:

> Created the following etherpad to keep track, also included comments from
> others (Kathy, Ruchi, David)…
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/openstack-business-perspective
>
>
>
> From: <Barrett>, Carol L <carol.l.barrett at intel.com<mailto:
> carol.l.barrett at intel.com>>
> Date: Friday, 6 March 2015 15:59
> To: "Bhargava, Ruchi" <ruchi.bhargava at intel.com<mailto:
> ruchi.bhargava at intel.com>>, Yih <yihleong.sun at liberty-it.co.uk<mailto:
> yihleong.sun at liberty-it.co.uk>>, "enterprise-wg at lists.openstack.org
> <mailto:enterprise-wg at lists.openstack.org>" <
> enterprise-wg at lists.openstack.org<mailto:enterprise-wg at lists.openstack.org
> >>
> Subject: RE: OpenStack from business perspective
>
> Leong – Thanks for the quick turn on the outline.
>
> Will add Ruchi and Kathy’s additions and test fly the outline at the
> Operators Meet-up next week.
>
> I will bring feedback into Thursday’s business and marketing team meeting.
>
> Carol
>
> From: Bhargava, Ruchi [mailto:ruchi.bhargava at intel.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 7:20 AM
> To: Sun, Yih Leong; enterprise-wg at lists.openstack.org<mailto:
> enterprise-wg at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject: Re: [Win The Enterprise-wg] OpenStack from business perspective
>
> Great Idea Leong,
> Couple of adds for now -
> 1.       one would not assume that the target audience understands what is
> CI/CD - an overview, why, what, how of CI/CD
> 2.       Organization changes can be two faced
> a.       Management philosophy - supportive of change - often there is
> unwillingness to move from proprietary spoon-fed support structure
> b.      User up-skilling - there may be a need to grow awareness on
> development of Cloud-aware resilient apps
>
> -ruchi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sun, Yih Leong [mailto:YihLeong.Sun at liberty-it.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 4:20 AM
> To: enterprise-wg at lists.openstack.org<mailto:
> enterprise-wg at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject: [Win The Enterprise-wg] OpenStack from business perspective
>
> As discussed in yesterday WTE – Business/Marketing meeting, we identified
> the following as a gap for enterprise adoption.
>
> Problem Statement:
> A new project manager recently join the OpenStack team, he want to learn
> more about OpenStack. He is less technical. He visits www.openstack.org<
> http://www.openstack.org>, but there are massive amount of information
> around, where can he/she start from?
> OR
> A business executive want to find out more about OpenStack. He is
> non-technical and heard about OpenStack. How can we help this business
> executive to jump-start the process?
>
> Proposal:
> To provide some material (e.g. a book: JumpStart OpenStack For Business
> Executives).
> This material should focus from the business point of view, although some
> technical information can be included.
> With this material, the reader (business executive) should have a basic
> understanding on OpenStack Ecosystem, what’s the benefits of introducing
> OpenStack to their organisation, what’s the impact to their business,
> what’s the adoption model they can follow, and where to find further
> information.
>
> There is an existing Welcome Guide (
> http://www.openstack.org/assets/welcome-guide/OpenStackWelcomeGuide.pdf),
> but this covers parts of the OpenStack ecosystem (chap 1 & 2 below).
>
> Below is a draft outline, any suggestion/comment is very welcome!
>
> Chapter 0: Introduction
> - intended audience (non-technical, enterprise business executive, project
> managers)
> - purpose of this book (this is for business perspective, not technical
> operations or configurations)
> - book organisation (how the book is structured)
> - acknowledgement
>
> Chapter 1: What is Cloud
> - NIST: Cloud Characteristic
> - NIST: Deployment Model
> - NIST: Service Model
> - Cloud trends?
>
> Chapter 2: What is OpenStack
> - OpenStack History
> - OpenStack Governance/Foundation
> - OpenStack Community (developer, documentation, user-group, enterprise
> working group, etc)
> - OpenStack Project/Program
> - OpenStack Releases and Distribution
> - OpenStack Marketplace
>
> Chapter 3: Why OpenStack (benefits)
> - Differences between OpenStack and virtualisation?
> - Choices / avoid lock in
> - Commodity hardware
> - DR, Availability, MTTR vs MTBF
> - Path to Hybrid Coud
> - Path to Software-defined Data Center?
>
> Chapter 4: Where can OpenStack used for?
> - Big Data / Data Analytics
> - Agile platform for Enterprise IT
> - Infrastructure Platform for CI/CD
> - Greenfield applications
> - R&D
> - Traditional App (Pets vs Cattle model?)
> - One or two examples of OpenStack in productions (can we borrow Walmart
> OR CERN user stories?)
>
> Chapter 5: OpenStack Impact & Economics
> - Culture and organisational changes
> - Impact to enterprise processes
> - Business agility & time to market.
> - Cost
> - Staffing
>
> Chapter 6:  Ready to start OpenStack?
> - Options
> ---DevStack (single machine)
> ---Build your own cloud (start from small lab, then pilot, then
> small-scale production…then large-scale…), maybe mentioned what are the
> minimal requirements to build a minimal OpenStack Cloud for
> evaluation/experiment purpose, estimated budget? Installing yourself or
> prepackaged installer (recommendation is to use installer) ---OpenStack as
> a Service (e.g. Mirantis OpenStack Express)
> - Where can I find reference architecture?
> - Where to get more help? (Vendor support, courses, training, IRC, mailing
> list)
>
>
> Suggestion:
> The Enterprise IT track in the upcoming summit has a few sessions which
> might coincide with the above content? Can we bring these people together
> and consolidate into a single material? Maybe a book sprint in Vancouver
> Summit? Get a few writers together, if we can find some?
>
> Thanks!
>
> ---
> Yih Leong Sun, PhD (Cloud Computing)
> Win the Enterprise Working Group
>
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