Chris,
From my perspective key messages are the following (simplified).
The business is always undergoing change. The fact is that change is
always coming quicker and more drastic. This means for the CIO that he
has less time to adjust and to adopt. He basically needs to move from
reactive to proactive.
For this change he needs a number of things. Most of all a robust
platform that has loads of flexibility. CloudStack has proven to be this
platform. Especially on new style apps and on IaaS. Robust is not only
about availability, but also on security (and compliance / audit / control).
Having that said there are some challenges for the old fashioned
application landscapes that needs to be migrated to CloudStack
environments. Solutions are twofold. Either you adjust your cloud
environment a little to overcome those issues (e.g. sync storage), or
you adjust your application landscape with some refreshes.
A hybrid model is a solution as well. And Hybrid models with SDN work
best (not so intrusive). We always give examples of the old environments
with SDN enabled and a fresh cloud environment with SDN enabled with the
same IP space.
This gives the corporate world the opportunities to move forward at the
pace they like.
From a support perspective ShapeBlue/Citrix are there to the rescue.
That should not be an issue as well.
From an open source perspective, vendor lock in is way lower. And out
of pocket is way lower as well.
For the rest all the standard cloud benefits (google on it).
Hope this helps.
Rgds, Arjan
Chris REID <mailto:[email protected]>
2 May 2014 12:05
I'm attending a SDN seminar in London and I asked the organiser if
they would like to hear about Cloudstack. They've offered me a 20 min
slot, and whilst it's not a huge amount of time I gratefully accepted.
Because there is a business focus I'd envisaged a presentation that
describes how Apache and hence Cloudstack operate, release code etc.,
and then an overview of the solution and its SDN capabilities. (My
background is networking and Hugo had already kindly helped me with
the operation of the SDN/Network Guru/Element functions.)
Finally I could promote the Budapest event.
I've discussed with Giles, including the fact that I'm effectively
giving a personal/analyst view of Cloudstack rather than any
representative role, but I'd I'd welcome the groups thoughts,
especially when talking to a more business orientated audience. What
are the key messages when discussing Cloudstack with the corporate world?
Regards
Chris
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