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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.
 
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.
 
Thank you for spearheading this effort! 
 
On Friday, March 6, 2015 6:19am, "Sun, Yih Leong" <YihLeong.Sun at liberty-it.co.uk> said:



> 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, 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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