OpenStack is not complicated.

In the cloud infrastructure domain, OpenStack Open source organization reputation is long, even can say has the very strong control power. VMware, which competes with OpenStack in products and technology, has also announced its support for OpenStack and has become the biggest contributor to OpenStack Open Source network technology. OpenStack Business Development director Heidi Bretz in Shanghai at the Cloud Connect conference received an interview with reporters, she said, VMware and OpenStack relationship is very close. Many IT vendors support VMware and OpenStack architectures to provide more choices to users.

Building an ecosystem

There are many communities and organizations such as OpenStack, which are dedicated to open source technology, such as Cloudstack, which have a competitive relationship with OpenStack. But from the point of view of popularity and the degree of perfection of ecosystem, OpenStack obviously took the initiative. "One of the big advantages of OpenStack is openness," Heidi Bretz said. "It supports all open source software, and in particular encourages technological innovation in open source." At present, OpenStack has more than 1000 developers worldwide, distributed in more than 130 countries, is the largest and biggest growth potential in all open source communities. ”

In the past, people always love to take cloudstack and OpenStack to compare, and cloudstack One advantage is the source from the commercial project, so its commercial applications in the landing aspect to do more successful. "OpenStack code can be downloaded anonymously, so how many people are using it right now, we don't have any exact statistics." "But to be sure, OpenStack is the most widely supported open source architecture in the industry, and in almost every vertical area, including servers, storage, networking, virtualization, and so on, the top three vendors support OpenStack," Heidi Bretz said. We have built a very wide ecosystem. ”

OpenStack is not complicated.

Many manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Brocade and Red Hat, have claimed support for OpenStack. This confirms that OpenStack has established an extensive ecosystem, but on the other hand, it is also explained that the use of OpenStack is more complex, users must rely on the technical strength of IT vendors to better deploy the OpenStack architecture?

Heidi Bretz explains that any user can download code and build their own OpenStack architecture. PayPal, a well-known online payment company, built its own cloud business platform based on OpenStack, its 20%~30% application load running on OpenStack architecture. According to OpenStack company founder, CEO Chenghui understand that China has successfully deployed OpenStack platform users are built on their own power to complete the system, and the application is very good.

At present, many of the OpenStack success stories we can see come from internet companies. So does OpenStack apply to traditional companies?

Heidi Bretz Analysis said that traditional enterprises generally have a complete and stable IT infrastructure, so they migrate to the cloud platform or openstack slower than internet companies. Looking from the application demand, the Internet enterprise's business innovation speed is very fast, need the open source technology such as OpenStack to quickly respond and carry the change of the business demand. In addition, internet companies have a lot of engineers, they are better at open source technology and more development capability, so it is easier to deploy OpenStack. "Now many it vendors are introducing OpenStack solutions that are geared towards traditional companies rather than internet companies," he said. Chenghui added.

OpenStack brings new business opportunities

Heidi Bretz said that the decision to openstack the future fate of the community is "people." "We are not going to dictate the development of the OpenStack technology framework, OpenStack's technology is entirely determined by the developers in the community." Heidi Bretz said. The openness and dynamism of OpenStack provides developers and users with endless space to play.

Chenghui For example, OpenStack to the entire IT industry brought new business opportunities: first, service providers, system integrators have more to come into existence, China's success in the first set up in China OpenStack Service Center; second, many software start-ups like Unitedstack are emerging; Third, some traditional hardware manufacturers with the help of OpenStack successfully realized the business transformation, launched a cloud services, so that enterprises revitalized.

Heidi Bretz told reporters that OpenStack's visits and downloads from China were second only to the United States. OpenStack will increase China's market expansion and investment. At the beginning of November, OpenStack's first summit in the Asia-Pacific region settled in Hong Kong and proved OpenStack's emphasis on the Chinese market.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)