<font face="arial" size="3"><p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Leong, this is an excellent idea. I'd suggest this be relatively short for the targeted audience; more like a long whitepaper in length (10-15 pages). I am happy to work on it in Vancouver and beyond, and have messaging, benefits, excellent quantified user stories, and access to openstack.org/enterprise for placement, to contribute.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Please add e-commerce and Web services to the workload list in Chapter 4. As discussed in the WtE Business/Marketing meetings, the Foundation is developing a series of workload-based campaigns and applicable content throughout 2015-early 2016, that includes most all of the workloads listed, plus a couple of technologies of interest to the enterprise.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Thank you for spearheading this effort! </p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">On Friday, March 6, 2015 6:19am, "Sun, Yih Leong" <YihLeong.Sun@liberty-it.co.uk> said:<br /><br /></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; word-wrap: break-word;">> As discussed in yesterday WTE – Business/Marketing meeting, we identified<br />> the following as a gap for enterprise adoption.<br />> <br />> Problem Statement:<br />> A new project manager recently join the OpenStack team, he want to learn more<br />> about OpenStack. He is less technical. He visits www.openstack.org, but there are<br />> massive amount of information around, where can he/she start from?<br />> OR<br />> A business executive want to find out more about OpenStack. He is non-technical<br />> and heard about OpenStack. How can we help this business executive to jump-start<br />> the process?<br />> <br />> Proposal:<br />> To provide some material (e.g. a book: JumpStart OpenStack For Business<br />> Executives).<br />> This material should focus from the business point of view, although some<br />> technical information can be included.<br />> With this material, the reader (business executive) should have a basic<br />> understanding on OpenStack Ecosystem, what’s the benefits of introducing<br />> OpenStack to their organisation, what’s the impact to their business,<br />> what’s the adoption model they can follow, and where to find further<br />> information.<br />> <br />> There is an existing Welcome Guide<br />> (http://www.openstack.org/assets/welcome-guide/OpenStackWelcomeGuide.pdf), but<br />> this covers parts of the OpenStack ecosystem (chap 1 & 2 below).<br />> <br />> Below is a draft outline, any suggestion/comment is very welcome!<br />> <br />> Chapter 0: Introduction<br />> - intended audience (non-technical, enterprise business executive, project<br />> managers)<br />> - purpose of this book (this is for business perspective, not technical operations<br />> or configurations)<br />> - book organisation (how the book is structured)<br />> - acknowledgement<br />> <br />> Chapter 1: What is Cloud<br />> - NIST: Cloud Characteristic<br />> - NIST: Deployment Model<br />> - NIST: Service Model<br />> - Cloud trends?<br />> <br />> Chapter 2: What is OpenStack<br />> - OpenStack History<br />> - OpenStack Governance/Foundation<br />> - OpenStack Community (developer, documentation, user-group, enterprise working<br />> group, etc)<br />> - OpenStack Project/Program<br />> - OpenStack Releases and Distribution<br />> - OpenStack Marketplace<br />> <br />> Chapter 3: Why OpenStack (benefits)<br />> - Differences between OpenStack and virtualisation?<br />> - Choices / avoid lock in<br />> - Commodity hardware<br />> - DR, Availability, MTTR vs MTBF<br />> - Path to Hybrid Coud<br />> - Path to Software-defined Data Center?<br />> <br />> Chapter 4: Where can OpenStack used for?<br />> - Big Data / Data Analytics<br />> - Agile platform for Enterprise IT<br />> - Infrastructure Platform for CI/CD<br />> - Greenfield applications<br />> - R&D<br />> - Traditional App (Pets vs Cattle model?)<br />> - One or two examples of OpenStack in productions (can we borrow Walmart OR CERN<br />> user stories?)<br />> <br />> Chapter 5: OpenStack Impact & Economics<br />> - Culture and organisational changes<br />> - Impact to enterprise processes<br />> - Business agility & time to market.<br />> - Cost<br />> - Staffing<br />> <br />> Chapter 6: Ready to start OpenStack?<br />> - Options<br />> ---DevStack (single machine)<br />> ---Build your own cloud (start from small lab, then pilot, then small-scale<br />> production…then large-scale…), maybe mentioned what are the minimal<br />> requirements to build a minimal OpenStack Cloud for evaluation/experiment purpose,<br />> estimated budget? Installing yourself or prepackaged installer (recommendation is<br />> to use installer)<br />> ---OpenStack as a Service (e.g. Mirantis OpenStack Express)<br />> - Where can I find reference architecture?<br />> - Where to get more help? (Vendor support, courses, training, IRC, mailing list)<br />> <br />> <br />> Suggestion:<br />> The Enterprise IT track in the upcoming summit has a few sessions which might<br />> coincide with the above content? Can we bring these people together and<br />> consolidate into a single material? Maybe a book sprint in Vancouver Summit? Get a<br />> few writers together, if we can find some?<br />> <br />> Thanks!<br />> <br />> ---<br />> Yih Leong Sun, PhD (Cloud Computing)<br />> Win the Enterprise Working Group<br />> <br />> <br />> _______________________________________________<br />> Enterprise-wg mailing list<br />> Enterprise-wg@lists.openstack.org<br />> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/enterprise-wg<br />> </p>
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