{"id":8726,"date":"2017-08-29T22:49:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T22:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/openstack-sees-new-use-cases-in-edge-computing-and-fast-growing-interest-in-china.html"},"modified":"2017-08-29T22:49:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T22:49:28","slug":"openstack-sees-new-use-cases-in-edge-computing-and-fast-growing-interest-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/openstack-sees-new-use-cases-in-edge-computing-and-fast-growing-interest-in-china.html","title":{"rendered":"OpenStack sees new use cases in edge computing and fast-growing interest in China"},"content":{"rendered":"


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OpenStack<\/a>, the massive open-source project that aims to bring the power and ease of use of public clouds like AWS and Azure to private data centers, today launched Pike, the sixteenth major version of its software. As usual, there\u2019s a massive number of updates here<\/a>, but the core theme is that the various development teams have focused on making OpenStack more composable, so that companies can more easily pick and choose the features they want. In addition, the community has renewed its focus on helping OpenStack operators manage the lifecycle of the various OpenStack tools with services like Kubernetes and Ansible.<\/p>\n

Mark Collier, the OpenStack Foundation\u2019s COO, and Lauren Sell, the organization\u2019s VP of Marketing and Community Services, told me earlier this week that they are now seeing a number of emerging use cases for OpenStack. One of these is edge computing \u2014 a trend that Microsoft, Amazon and other public cloud providers are also now addressing. \u201cThere is a huge demand for cloud computing in many different forms,\u201d Collier said. \u201cThat\u2019s impacting what we\u2019re doing.\u201d Some of the most prominent companies that are now looking at using OpenStack for their edge computing solution include Verizon (TechCrunch\u2019s corporate overlords), Walmart (which wants to do computing right in its stores) and Inmarsat (which is looking at using OpenStack to power the on-board computing power on large ships).<\/p>\n

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Collier and Sell also noted that in their view, multi-cloud is becoming a standard operating model now and that many of the businesses the organization is talking to aren\u2019t just looking at using multiple public clouds for their workloads but are also operating private clouds. \u201cOne piece of this, too, is that it\u2019s also not that binary \u2014 it\u2019s not private or public,\u201d Sell said. \u201cIt\u2019s becoming much more of a spectrum.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why the trend toward private clouds? Collier and Sell argue that it\u2019s about cost, capabilities and compliance. Indeed, I\u2019ve now heard from a number of enterprises that are moving to private clouds because their steady workloads aren\u2019t a good fit for the public cloud billing model, which gives you a lot of flexibility to turn servers on and off, but you pay a premium for that. For workloads that run close to 24\/7, operating a private cloud can often be more affordable.<\/p>\n

For many companies, a private cloud also gives them access to capabilities that aren\u2019t available in the public cloud. That may be specific networking functions for the many telecoms that operate OpenStack deployments, or specific hardware for machine learning workloads. For others, operating a private cloud isn\u2019t even optional, especially if they have to fulfill certain regulatory and data sovereignty requirements.<\/p>\n

Collier also noted there\u2019s a trend toward having third-party vendors like RackSpace, Canonical or Mirantis operate these private clouds, which in his view means that the companies are getting the best of both worlds: the cost-savings and capabilities of a private cloud combined with the ease of use of public clouds.<\/p>\n

OpenStack also is seeing massive growth in interest in China. Some of the largest enterprises there run OpenStack clouds, including the country\u2019s largest railway system, China UnionPay, China Mobile, Huawei and ZTE. It\u2019s also worth noting that Tencent\u2019s massively popular WeChat service runs at least partially on OpenStack<\/a>. This momentum is creating a new local startup ecosystem of companies that want to support these users.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead, Collier and Sell noted that the organization is now looking at how the project can better support new use cases like edge computing and machine learning.<\/p>\n

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