OpenStack & Co: Veni, vedi, vici

OpenStack has become the central building block in the development of PrivateCloud-infrastructures developed.

For users, the most important factors are costs and control over their own Cloud-infrastructures in the foreground.

In the slipstream of the rising OpenStack-adaptation, the company also achieves further Cloud–Open Source-technologies, such as Platform as a Service, containers and serverless infrastructure, into the enterprise.

As part of the study by Crisp Research "OpenStack as a basis for open Cloud-Architectures" on behalf of IBM 380 German corporate decision-makers were surveyed with regard to both their general Cloud strategy as well as the current and future planned level of use of OpenStack and further Open Source-technologies, such as container technologies, Platform as a Service and Serverless Infrastructure, interviewed.

While OpenStack was initially known only to start-ups, a few service providers and a few research companies, within the last six years it has become a worldwide Community grown up.

This consists of over 50,000 members, spread over 182 countries worldwide.

This is supported by the OpenStack-project of 604 companies, working with members in six core projects and 13 subprojects on the continuous development of OpenStack work.

In April 2016, the 13th release, "Mitaka", was released. For October 2016, number 14 is planned with "Newton". Besides the members in the Community there are now also numerous successful projects by global user companies that have OpenStack installed as an infrastructure base.

For SAP is OpenStack to the infrastructure standard of all Data centers globally and is therefore a strategic issue for the company.

Even if OpenStack has found widespread use in companies and theoretically has the potential to do so, the project will, according to Community not go beyond an infrastructure platform to a complete open Cloud-Stack develop.

Instead, the OpenStack Foundation their Platform as an "integration engine" and intends to work more intensively in future with other Open Source–Communities work together.

This means that all innovations above the infrastructure level are enabled by technology partners and the Community will have no direct influence on it.

Especially the Open Source-Technologies Platform as a Service (PaaS), containers and serverless infrastructure will be on the agenda of corporate decision-makers in the future, and can be addressed with the infrastructure platform OpenStack be integrated.

That the integration of OpenStack works with the above technologies is demonstrated by large IT providers such as IBM and SAP. For example, SAP sets above OpenStack as an infrastructure base on Cloud Foundry, with which the management of OpenStack (e.g. virtual machines) is made.

Hana Cloud Platform

Above Cloud Foundry then acts the Hana Cloud Platform, for example, to run IoT projects.

At IBM serves OpenStack as an infrastructure base for its own PaaS-Bluemix, which in turn serves as the technical basis for the Cloud Foundry and in the further development of which IBM is actively involved.

You are interested in Open Source-technologies such as OpenStack? Related informations about the topic OpenStack and further Open Source-technologies can be found in the study "OpenStack as a basis for open Cloud-architectures", which was conducted by Crisp Research on behalf of IBM was created.

For this purpose, 380 IT decision-makers were asked about their assessments of OpenStack and Open Source-technologies. The study is available free of charge at "OpenStack as a basis for open Cloud-Architectures" is available for download.