OpenStack & Beyond Podcast – Episode 6 | OpenStack Predictions for 2016
Coming (almost) straight off the heels of our OpenStack Tokyo podcast, we bring you a fresh OpenStack & Beyond podcast all about the future of OpenStack, specifically in the next year. Our panel of three included experts each in a different discipline: an analyst, a product person, and a systems architect.
This podcast started with some talk about the main shifts that took place in OpenStack in 2015. Very quickly, the conversation moved into OpenStack distributions versus hosted OpenStack to telecom adoption, containers, and hybrid cloud predictions.
Enjoy the episode below and meet our super group of panelists:
Laurent Lachal is leading Ovum Software Group’s cloud computing research. He works in close co-operation with other members of the Ovum team, both within the software group as well as the Ovum IT services, telecom and vertical industry teams, to cover the various aspects of the cloud computing phenomenon and its impact on the software market.
In his 19-year career as an IT analyst, Laurent has provided software vendors and users with insight into a wide range of issues from high-level business strategy issues to low-level technology ones. He has a deep knowledge of most segments of the IT industry from infrastructure to applications and was until mid-2009 in charge of Ovum’s open source-related research activities.
Besides Ovum, where he has spent most of his career, Laurent has also been European software market group manager at Gartner Ltd.
Jason Cannavale is a Senior Director of Product Development at Rackspace focused on the OpenStack Private Cloud product set. Jason has 15 years of experience in Systems Administration, infrastructure management, and software development.
For the past 5 years Jason has been focused on OpenStack in many different ways including code contribution, evangelising, and building software teams to work with the OpenStack community.
Avishay Traeger is a system architect at Stratoscale. He holds a doctorate from Stony Brook University, where his research focused on file systems, storage and performance analysis. He was an previously an OpenStack Cinder core team member.
You can listen to the full podcast below:
Here are some of the tweets from the episode as well:
The whole shift & improvement of focus how the enterprise uses #OpenStack is the most important shift of 2015. @laurentlachalUK #OStackast
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) November 30, 2015
Seeing plenty more #OpenStack deployments and just moving in the right direction from 2015 @stratoscale #OStackast https://t.co/LN1EgaVzhv
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) November 30, 2015
I think Big Tent was the biggest and most welcome #OpenStack news from 2015 @rackspace Jason Cannavale #OStackast https://t.co/LN1EgaVzhv
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) November 30, 2015
#OpenStack packaging makes it a completely different beast than #Linux ~ Jason Cannavale @rackspace #OStackast
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) November 30, 2015
Given the skill set challenge will more enterprises and industries will go with hosted #OpenStack or distros? @natishalom #OStackast
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) November 30, 2015
Many don’t want to have to deal with the complexity & so they outsource to managed private cloud or public cloud #OStackast @laurentlachalUK
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) November 30, 2015
There’s no intention @rackspaces closing public or private #OpenStack clouds currently we’re just supporting more #AWS & #Azure #OStackast
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) November 30, 2015
Why do you see Telcos adopting #OpenStack? @natishalom #OStackast
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) November 30, 2015
All of the big players have put #OpenStack at the center of their next-gen platforms but it’s only one component #OStackast @laurentlachalUK
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) November 30, 2015
Now that the suppliers are committed the Telcos are now also committed to #OpenStack #OStackast @laurentlachalUK
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) November 30, 2015
Telcos need to be able to compete with the cutting edge companies providing next-gen services to end-users. #OStackast #OpenStack @rackspace
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) November 30, 2015
Containers still have a lot of area to cover to be as mature as other existing platforms @laurentlachalUK #OpenStack #OStackast
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) November 30, 2015
Jason Cannavale “I think containers are closing the maturity gap pretty quickly” @rackspace #OpenStack #OStackast
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) November 30, 2015
Are containers complementary or alternative to VMs? @laurentlachalUK Ent. market want to adopt a complementary vision #OpenStack #OStackast
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) November 30, 2015
I don’t see containers replacing VMs soon.Users need the option to run apps quickly & easily independent of the underlying tech @stratoscale
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) November 30, 2015
Private cloud being center of hybrid cloud model will likely lead to it serving as the identity federation @rackspace #OStackast #OpenStack
— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) November 30, 2015
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