<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 22, 2022, at 7:18 AM, KK CHN <<a href="mailto:kkchn.in@gmail.com" class="">kkchn.in@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 5:36 PM Allison Price <<a href="mailto:allison@openinfra.dev" class="">allison@openinfra.dev</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Hi Krish,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can answer a few of your questions in line. <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 21, 2022, at 8:59 AM, KK CHN <<a href="mailto:kkchn.in@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">kkchn.in@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">List,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Very recently I came across a discussion with a banking corporation who are heavy users of VMware in all their Data Centre operations ..</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They asked me a lot of questions in comparison with openstack vs other proprietary vendors (such as VMware. ). <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As I am promoting OpenStack I need to clarify these questions raised by the organization. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I request your inputs for these queries .<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Does OpenStack support Hyper Converged Infrastructure ? <br class=""></div><div class=""> Or any HCI vendors already with OpenStack solutions? Please share the URL/link of case studies of OpenStack HCI. <br class=""></div><div class=""> Any documentation/Reference to install openstack as HCI solution with supported H/W OEM details . I can try out ...<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. Is there any performance benchmark for openstack to compare with other such cloud stacks ( URL/reference links kindly share )</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3. What is the market share of OpenStack all over the world ? ( If any statistics kindly share.) <br class=""></div><div class=""> Any survey reports available how many large and medium organizations are using Openstack distributions for private/public cloud use in production ?</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is not an exact report that shows OpenStack market share, but there are a lot of statistics about the growing footprint of OpenStack-powered clouds that we collect from the OpenStack user survey (<a href="http://openstack.org/user-survey" target="_blank" class="">openstack.org/user-survey</a>). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- There are currently over 25 million compute cores of OpenStack in production</div><div class="">- There are over 180 public cloud data centers running OpenStack </div><div class="">- The market for OpenStack is over $7.7 billion USD (source: 451 Research, Market Monitor, Open Source Software, OpenStack 2019) </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We are planning to publish a new report later this year highlighting the current landscape of OpenStack adoption. Since the survey is opt-in, it is not comprehensive of all OpenStack use cases, but it gives a pretty good picture of the evolution and maturity of deployments. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I suggest if possible while publishing this new report, it will be better if we can publish also in Gartner,<span style="font-family: monospace, "Courier New"; font-size: 12px;" class=""> Forrester etc., if this makes sense.</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>We often brief analysts after the survey comes out, but given that they have their own research arms, it’s often not published there and doing a survey / report through them is very costly. </div><div><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I heard about CERN one among the biggest Openstack deployments in the private cloud domain. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Yes, CERN is one of the largest OpenStack deployments (I think around 380,000 cores). We also have a few users who have over a million cores in production including Walmart, Workday, LINE, China Mobile, and Yahoo (4 million to be exact). Other large scale users include OVH, Bloomberg, Kakao, and T-Systems (among many more). </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">4. <span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class="">Does OpenStack new versions support VDI(Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) solutions out of the box.? pls give a reference link / url for the same.<br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class="">5. <span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class=""><span class=""></span>What is the alternative for VROPS and VRA (including self service capabilities, Blueprint/Template based deployment) in OpenStack and any comparative study on the capabilities available. ( Please share inputs if any to refer. )</span><br style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">6. <span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class="">What is the alternative of VMWARE Network Insights and VMWARE CodeStream and Vrealize Loginsights in OpenStack ?</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class="">7. <span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class=""><span class=""></span>Any major capability available in VMware cloud stack for which alternative is not available in OpenStack out of the box<span class=""> ?<br class=""></span></span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class=""><span class="">8. <span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class=""><span class=""></span>Tools to maintain multiple OpenStack Cluster, any concept of Supervisory cluster available</span></span></span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class=""><span class=""><span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class=""><br class=""></span></span></span></span></div><div class="">9. Who all are the large organizations who deployed OpenStack as their alternative over proprietary solutions(eg: VMware cloud and virtualization products ..)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">10. <span style="font-family:monospace,"Courier New";font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none" class="">Does OpenInfra Foundation also provide direct support For OpenStack Deployment ? If yes Kindly share the link / url where to contact /approach for paid support ? in case the clients need paid support ?<br class=""></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The OpenInfra Foundation doesn’t directly provide support, but we have an OpenStack Marketplace (<a href="http://openstack.org/marketplace" target="_blank" class="">openstack.org/marketplace</a>) where we work with our members to highlight their OpenStack-powered products. This list is not comprehensive, but it’s a great directory of OpenStack-powered products. </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">11. Regarding security of cloud environments /infrastructure, what are the USPs of OpenStack cloud security over other competing cloud middleware providers ? and the vulnerability handling model/mechanism in production ? <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks in advance for your invaluable inputs. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Each and every input from each member is valuable for me to showcase as solid proofs to defend and promote the openstack over proprietary market leaders. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Krish<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please let me know if you have any questions on any of the above resources / data points that I shared. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Allison </div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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