{"id":5215,"date":"2015-01-20T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=5215"},"modified":"2015-01-15T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T17:54:09","slug":"openstack-saas-openstack-to-gain-ground-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/openstack-saas-openstack-to-gain-ground-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenStack-as-a-Service: OpenStack to Gain Ground in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a title=\"OpenStack\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">OpenStack <\/a>is hot; and interest in containers is emerging [for company IT priorities in 2015],&#8221; <a title=\"Quote on openstack by Red Hat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/customers-reporting-interest-in-cloud-containers-linux-and-openstack-for-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">says <\/a><a title=\"Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redhat.com\/en\/about\/company\/management\/dirk-peter-van-leeuwen\" target=\"_blank\">Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen<\/a>, Red hat senior vice president.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"What is OpenStack?\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OpenStack\" target=\"_blank\">OpenStack is an open-source Apache-licensed cloud computing software platform<\/a>. \u00a0It is typically used as the basis of an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution. Businesses often choose OpenStack as the foundation software when building private and hybrid clouds. \u00a0OpenStack competes against other products that include\u00a0<a title=\"CloudStack home page\" href=\"http:\/\/cloudstack.apache.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CloudStack <\/a>and <a title=\"OpenNebula home page\" href=\"http:\/\/opennebula.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">OpenNebula<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Red hat survey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/customers-reporting-interest-in-cloud-containers-linux-and-openstack-for-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Hat recently surveyed<\/a> their existing customers about \u00a0their IT plans going into 2015 and found that many customers are already using OpenStack and also plan to invest more in OpenStack during 2015. \u00a0The top benefits that those businesses say that they achieve with OpenStack include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Greater Automation (18 percent)<\/li>\n<li>Improved agility to meet customer and business demand (17 percent)<\/li>\n<li>Lower costs (15 percent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/platform9.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5217 alignleft\" alt=\"Platform9\" src=\"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Platform9.png\" width=\"186\" height=\"92\" \/><\/a>Udy Gold, Sr. Director of Infrastructure at PubMatic, said that &#8220;enterprises that outgrow their initial use of public clouds are looking for a cloud platform to manage their in-house infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But one of the challenges of new technologies like OpenStack <a title=\"Complexity is a problem with OpenStack\" href=\"http:\/\/vinfrastructure.it\/2014\/12\/itpt-14-report-platform9\/\" target=\"_blank\">is complexity<\/a>. \u00a0While many businesses are interested in setting up private or hybrid cloud infrastructure, they don&#8217;t have the skills or resources to first build out cloud infrastructure and then also continue to maintain it.\u00a0For those organizations, a number of fast-track solutions are now becoming available that can help get them up and running with an OpenStack cloud infrastructure much more quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a title=\"BlueBox home page\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bluebox.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Box<\/a>, for example, provides a &#8216;<a title=\"BlueBox Cloud as a Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2015\/01\/06\/openstack-private-cloud-provider-blue-box-raises-4m\/\" target=\"_blank\">cloud-as-a-service<\/a>&#8216; offering built with OpenStack that uses RackSpace hardware. \u00a0Unlike public cloud services like Amazon Web Service or Microsoft Azure where you rent IT infrastructure as needed from a pool of shared hardware, with Blue Box each customer uses dedicated infrastructure. \u00a0The infrastructure is managed, updated and maintained off premises by Blue Box.<\/p>\n<p>Another example is\u00a0<a title=\"Platform9\" href=\"http:\/\/platform9.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Platform9.\u00a0<\/a>Today they announced the availability of their Platform9 Managed OpenStack solution. 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