OpenStack has become a popular open source cloud computing project, will change the business model

Some time ago in a conversation with the hosting service provider (MSP), Xiao Bian emphasized that embracing standards should be given priority as their strategic focus. Because the success of cloud solutions stems from the successful integration of services from multiple vendors, standards play a key role. Recently, OpenStack became the hottest open source project in cloud computing, attracting the investment and attention of many leading IT vendors, including AT & T, Dell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Red Hat. Should you focus on OpenStack?

In 2005, Amazon began providing computing resources through its Amazon Cloud Computing Service (AWS), which Citrix's cloud computing platform (based on Apache CloudStack) earlier started to address infrastructure standards but did not make the same increase as OpenStack. For virtualization, VMware is the gold standard for customers who want to automate their data centers, and those customers are transitioning their view to using the software-defined data center approach to the private cloud.

As businesses are transforming through cloud computing, organizations must understand how to leverage and address the solutions in the cloud computing marketplace. However, the dominance of both Amazon and VMware in their niche markets made it hard for other vendors to catch up, no matter how hard they worked. When Rackspace and NASA unveiled their cloud open source initiative following the founding of the OpenStack Foundation, traditional IT vendors looking to both Amazon and VMware began introducing alternatives through OpenStack.

The ever-expanding capabilities of OpenStack (and the ever-expanding OpenStack Summit, held every six months) show that OpenStack is accelerating. Every IT manager should recognize that OpenStack is an effective way to counter the destructive power of cloud computing itself. As businesses move to automated systems, businesses need to provide relevant information to their ecosystem for use with the API.

Therefore, every business should consider itself as a software company in an attempt to stand out from the competition. Leveraging cloud computing resources can allow businesses to quickly introduce disruptive products through small investments. As companies may surpass their competitors at any time, executives will very much like to be more competitive with cloud computing.

How will Openstack change your business?

Let's suppose you are an auto parts manufacturing company, you do not have much money to invest in internal IT equipment, however, your design workload is very high demand. When needed, you'll hired an outside expert at high prices to help you run a design simulation. Two of your employees think they can improve the company's products, but they need a lot of resources to run the analog design. They also proposed to executives executives to harness cloud computing resources to start some initiatives internally. Although this has never happened in your business, you want to change that culture and encourage these initiatives.

Beyond OpenStack / Private Cloud

You authorize your engineers to use cloud-delivered resources (leveraging OpenStack) to evaluate options, renting software and infrastructure, and leveraging the resources delivered through cloud computing. In the meantime, they use idle resources from internal data centers to accomplish certain tasks.

If you do not have the urgent need for results, you can also get external resources at a very low cost through cloud brokers. If time is tight, you can take advantage of multiple external cloud computing to accomplish tasks faster and get better reliability. Businesses should take advantage of this ability to leverage external computing resources at very low cost to change existing business models.