Enter Cloud Suite
An OpenStack story
Rust, April 1st, 2014
Enter’s journey through OpenStack
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Enter Cloud Suite
Enter - Cloud Service Provider
The first
European
Multiregional
“Pure OpenStack”
On proprietary backbone
cloud IaaS offering
The choice of beingan open cloud company
Enter - Cloud Service Provider
Open source no licenses / no vendor lock-in
Open standards workload portability
Open API full integration
The greater the difficultyThe more exciting the challenge
Enter - Cloud Service Provider
• Management complexity?
• SDN products confusion?
• Ceph or Swift?
• Which hardware is right for you?
• Traditional vendors are no longer
able to support you?
• Go DevOps!
• Stay open source!
• Both!
• DIY and save money!
• Leave them and find
new ones!
What happens next
Enter - Cloud Service Provider
Building
an OpenStack based
European Cloud Federation
pivoting on enterprise nodes