Open Stack

We should not underestimate the difficulties... we had a recent case at CERN where


-        Vendor A certified their enterprise backup software for servers on an enterprise vendor X.Y

-        Version X.Y+1 came out and Vendor A said they will not certify. Maybe X.Y+2 if lots of requests but no guarantees

-        Version X.Y+2 comes out. Vendor X says that version X.Y is no longer supported as it is too old.

Promoting CI/CD for internal developments needs to also understand that the external world does not yet work this way. Complaining to Vendor A has not yielded a change of approach. Migrating from Vendor A is a very high cost.

Thus, transforming the internal IT does not solve the problem if the vendors do not follow. The migration cost to other vendors is significant and therefore discourages the adoption of an alternative approach.

Tim

From: David T Lin [mailto:davidt_lin at symantec.com]
Sent: 06 March 2015 16:47
To: Bhargava, Ruchi; Sun, Yih Leong; enterprise-wg at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [Win The Enterprise-wg] OpenStack from business perspective

+1 on Ruchi's comments on organizational change.

The biggest non-technical hurdle is creating/nurturing/reinforcing/transforming a culture where the team has an open mindset to embrace disruptive change.  I regularly need to ask people to suspend disbelief and judgement until they've had a chance to experience cloud first hand.

DTL

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David T Lin
Symantec Cloud Platform

From: <Bhargava>, Ruchi <ruchi.bhargava at intel.com<mailto:ruchi.bhargava at intel.com>>
Date: Friday, March 6, 2015 at 7:19 AM
To: "Sun, Yih Leong" <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: [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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