The first OpenStack Summit was held in Austin, Texas, in 2011 with 75 participants. In celebration of five great years, organizers brought the event back to its inaugural site April 25-29 of this year. The event featured more than 7,000 visitors from 50 countries, including users, DevOps teams, vendors, analysts, and me. We generally discussed how we can make OpenStack more agile and responsive to user needs and got a great look at the latest Mitaka release.

Boldly Going…

OpenStack allows organizations to scale quickly and get applications and services into the hands of users faster. Gartner gave a great keynote about the bi-modal future of the cloud. They pointed out that traditional IT infrastructures with enterprise-level apps and databases will continue to play a critical role for many businesses and can’t be completely eliminated while they build out their cloud architecture. Future workloads will demand that enterprises respond to pressures from both increased innovation and market disruption while delivering apps and services seamlessly to meet ever-increasing demands from end-users. Successful organizations will engage hybrid infrastructure technologies and leverage the scalability of cloud environments to deliver agile services and apps to their users, wherever they may be.

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