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On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 5:36 PM Allison Price <allison at openinfra.dev> wrote:

> Hi Krish,
>
> I can answer a few of your questions in line.
>
> On Jun 21, 2022, at 8:59 AM, KK CHN <kkchn.in at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> List,
>
> Very recently  I came across a discussion with a banking corporation who
> are  heavy users of VMware in all their Data Centre operations ..
>
> They asked me a  lot of questions in comparison with openstack vs other
> proprietary vendors (such as  VMware.   ).
>
>
> As I am promoting OpenStack  I need to clarify these questions raised by
> the organization.
>
> I request your inputs for these queries .
>
> 1. Does OpenStack  support Hyper Converged Infrastructure ?
> Or any HCI vendors already  with OpenStack solutions? Please share the
> URL/link of case studies of OpenStack HCI.
> Any documentation/Reference  to install openstack as HCI solution  with
> supported H/W OEM details . I can try out ...
>
> 2. Is there any performance benchmark for openstack to compare with other
> such cloud stacks  ( URL/reference links kindly share )
>
> 3. What is the market share of OpenStack all over the world ? ( If any
> statistics kindly share.)
> Any survey reports available how many large and medium organizations are
> using Openstack distributions for  private/public cloud use in production ?
>
>
> 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 (
> openstack.org/user-survey).
>
> - There are currently over 25 million compute cores of OpenStack in
> production
> - There are over 180 public cloud data centers running OpenStack
> - The market for OpenStack is over $7.7 billion USD (source: 451 Research,
> Market Monitor, Open Source Software, OpenStack 2019)
>
> 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.
>

I suggest if possible while publishing this new report, it will be better
if we can publish also in Gartner, Forrester etc., if this makes sense.

I heard about CERN  one among the biggest Openstack deployments in the
private cloud domain.

>
>
> 4. Does OpenStack new versions support VDI(Virtual Desktop
> Infrastructure) solutions out of the box.? pls give a reference link / url
> for the same.
>
> 5.  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. )
>
> 6. What is the alternative of VMWARE Network Insights and VMWARE
> CodeStream and Vrealize  Loginsights  in  OpenStack ?
>
> 7.  Any major capability available in VMware cloud stack for which
> alternative is not available in OpenStack out of the box ?
>
> 8.  Tools to maintain multiple OpenStack Cluster, any concept of
> Supervisory cluster available
>
> 9. Who all are the large organizations who deployed OpenStack as their
> alternative over proprietary solutions(eg: VMware cloud and virtualization
> products ..)
>
> 10. 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 ?
>
>
> The OpenInfra Foundation doesn’t directly provide support, but we have an
> OpenStack Marketplace (openstack.org/marketplace) 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.
>
>
> 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 ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your  invaluable inputs.
>
> 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.
>
> Krish
>
>
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions on any of the above resources
> / data points that I shared.
>
> Allison
>
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