Openstack Adoption Essay

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Roshan Ravi Mr. White Seven B English 23 May 2014 The Future of OpenStack Adoption A hot topic of debate recently has been if OpenStack is ready for the enterprises and many organizations are controversial about the licensing, cost, security, flexibility, and overall ease of use. Most enterprises should begin mass adoption in the next three years. OpenStack is an open-sourced company independent private cloud platform built with segregated resource pools that can interconnect. For example, a virtual machine can be created using OpenStack Nova, which will connect into the block storage component to store data. The same server can be connected into a vLAN(virtual network) to have other servers throughout various locations connect to one network without costly networking hardware. Configuration is relatively easy as there is need to count, track or monitor which servers have the software installed. Managing the VMs created in OpenStack Nova is also easy as it is possible to use the CLI from the browser through a VNC proxy. In fact, all of the resources and modules can be managed from the browser. This approach is significantly better than the traditional way, in which a company buys rackmount servers, and networking equipment, as virtual hardware can be repurposed and reused, unlike physical hardware, where new servers have to be bought when the app needs to be scaled to handle a higher load. This approach can also be used to have multiple low end machines work together to get the processing power and storage of a high end computer for a much lower price. Networking, in particular, costs much less money as everything is virtual and there is no physical networking hardware, and OpenStack creates a mesh-like network. The segregation ... ... middle of paper ... ...losed source software cannot be tested in production environments with in-depth stacktraces. Alls users are also locked in a least privileged access design, which mitigates attempts to take control, or “hack”, servers from users, as none of the users use a root account, which has full control of the server. Users also have role-based access controls to limit access to virtual machines and resource pools, as well as resource utilization. It seems as though most corporates have researched about OpenStack, and many reject proposals due to the fact that it is open-sourced and there are no contracts, or service level agreements. What those companies do not realise is that open source may very well be better than closed source in terms of a private cloud solution. OpenStack is rapidly gaining in terms of users, and that number will keep rising in the next couple years.

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