We give organizations of all types and sizes access to the diverse expertise they need, on diverse platforms. We offer hybrid cloud solutions to enterprises wanting to use a combination of their own managed cloud and a choice of public clouds at a fraction of the cost if they would do so in house.In the same vein as our industry-leading service and support for AWS and Microsoft Azure, Rackspace has simplified OpenStack and made it reliable with excellent response times. Using our expertise, weve removed the complexity for our customers. We provide a managed environment where infrastructure is consumed as a service, but as a service they control.Unless they are in the infrastructure business, most customers dont need to be experts in the complex mechanics of infrastructure technology. The workloads can run on servers in the customers data centers (using standardized equipment, to gain scale economies), or in our data centers. They can run in the public cloud, too, for burst or RampD workloads. Customers love it because it simplifies complexity, delivers choice, diversity and control while overcoming the skills gap.NASA and Rackspace founded OpenStack five years ago. Now, as the leader in managed cloud, Rackspace has been helping accelerate enterprise adoption of OpenStack. According to the 451 Research OpenStack Pulse Report 2015, revenue from OpenStack business models will exceed 2.5 billion by 2017. And in a brief earlier this month, Forrester Research called OpenStack the dominant platform for private cloud.As an open platform with a vibrant community, OpenStack harnesses the innovation of more than 500 companies. This significantly increasing a companys access to new features and capabilities, as well as gives organizations a credible option to switch vendors resulting in significant pricing leverage for the long term.Containers are making it even easier for businesses to save money and increase efficiency and competiveness. Containers allow enterprises to run more applications reliably on less hardware. They make it easy to dependably move workloads from one computing environment to another.OpenStack provides a single control plane for managing containerized applications, virtualized applications and bare metal applications. With one standard, one set of tooling, one set of APIs and one platform on which to train employees, enterprises can easily manage applications of all types, across all major deployment platforms. Containers will be a core part of future IT infrastructure, and OpenStack is the easiest, fastest and most reliable way to realize their benefits within the enterprise.This morning during our keynote, Rackspace Distinguished Architect and Magnum PTL Lead Adrian Otto and I announced a free beta program for our new cloud service for containers, Carina. With results 6.5 times faster than other container platforms, Carina uses the Rackspace OpenStack-based public cloud to allow users to run and deploy apps quickly.As organizations continue to move away from infrastructure management, OpenStack, delivered as a service, gives them the modern infrastructure they want. The flexibility, modularity, lower cost and openness of OpenStack, combined with Fanatical Support and service from Rackspace, is an ideal choice for enterprises to seize upon the economies of expertise that allow them to stay lean and focused on growing their businesses for tomorrow.SUSE Cloud and Ravello Systems, rapid and easy deployment of OpenStack Earlier this year, our team released SUSE OpenStack Cloud version 4 for demonstration on Ravello Systems, a public cloud solution that implements some really cool technologies. We have just recently updated to SUSE OpenStack Cloud version 5 (based on the OpenStack JUNO release) on Funded by Intel, supported and maintained by Rackspace, the clusters are part of the two companies shared mission toaccelerate enterprise adoption of OpenStack while adhering to open source principles. Theyre doing this through the recently launched OpenStack Innovation Center.Scalability is where the rubber meets the road,said Intel Director of Datacenter Software PlanningDavid L. Brown at the OpenStack Tokyo session Tuesday evening where he, Vice President of Rackspace Private Cloud Darrin Hanson and Director of Datacenter amp Cloud Software Engineering with Intels Open Source Technology Center Ruchi Bhargava announced the availability of the clusters and explained how they fit into the Innovation Centers larger goals.Just as important, said Hanson, is that all the work done by the Innovation Center and by extension those who test on the clusters will be contributed upstream. Neither Intel nor Rackspace isinterested in creating anything proprietary, he said: We want to work with the community and stay aligned with the OpenStack Foundation.The Innovation Center is tackling those issues in the long run by also focusingon recruiting, training and hiring new talent, working with universities like the University of Texas at San Antonio and others to bring young engineers to the Innovation Center for specific training.Themultiple module training program, which includes the nuts and bolts ofhow to get your code reviewed, and accepted, also aims to get each new set of engineers mentoring the next. The first dozen have already graduated, and another 15 will start training next month, Hanson said. The next phase would be to open the training to other companies developers.As a way to prioritize development, the team has created a shared road map, whichBhargava shared with the room. In addition to recruitment, and getting the clusters up and ready, one bigfocus has been onbug fixes. The Innovation Center team identified 560 bugs, and has already closed211. Another 108 are actively being worked on, and I think the team needs to be thanked for this accomplishment, she said to applause.Now, anyone who wants to help advance the roadmap can do so by going to go.rackspace/developercloud and filling out the request form. Requests should includeuser case details, likely outcomes andbenefits, Brown said as well asa commitment to share the resultsupstream.
