Accenture and OpenStack

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OpenStack and the Enterprise

Joseph Tobolski Accenture Technology Labs



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• Findings based on Accenture Survey [Investment in Open Source Software Set to Rise], June-2010 (The survey of 300 blue-chip organizations in both public and private sector)

Market Trends Key Drivers of OSS Adoption

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Lower cost is no longer seen as the key benefit, instead OSS benefits are seen in terms of its Quality, Reliability and Time to Market (Speed).

Market Trends Increasing Adoption

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The foundations start to be in place and open source adoption is increasing further and expanding into mission critical systems.


Market Trends Adoption Areas

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OSS adoption is strongest in customer facing processes, but adoption is quickly spreading across all the enterprise processes.


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Cost reduction

Elasticity/scalability

Speed to market

High performance computing

Companies are considering cloud for the same reason...

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IT leaders believe that within five years cloud will enable speed, flexibility, responsiveness and innovation.

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“IT Leaders are embracing the Cloud”

“IT Leaders are looking to the Cloud”

2-5 years Today

Dev

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Ops

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Devicetop

Operating system

Devices

OSS deployed on a cloud based infrastructure platform will be the most likely scenario of cloud and open source combination in the short term.

IaaS

Infrastructure Cloud

Open source is ideal for deploying on top of infrastructure in the cloud today. This enables cost-efficiency and quick ramp-up times of environments. The most likely scenarios for this are development and test environments and as IaaS vendors SLA’s evolve production environments also become a real choice.

Middleware

Business Applications

Frameworks

Traditional open-source stack.

Cloud infrastructure

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The link between Cloud and Open Source

What are the big enterprise opportunities?

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• Security/Compliance • Software Licensing • SLA’s • Terms and Conditions • Performance/Latency • Management • Vendor Lock In • The Myth of Private Cloud

• Telcos • Service Providers • Larger enterprises • Government


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