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Canonical OpenStack

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What is Canonical OpenStack?

Canonical OpenStack is the cloud openstack option from Canonical in the UK. Using private and public cloud infrastructure at the same time allows users to optimise CapEx and OpEx costs. Users can create cost-effective, enterprise-grade public cloud infrastructure on Ubuntu.

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Flexible, Economical, and Equally Well Performing Cloud Platform.

Incentivized
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Consultant in Research & Development (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Flexibility for deploying and managing virtual machines.
  • Full fledged documentation for self learners within organization.
  • Great that it's fully an open source offering. Hence light on pockets.

Cons

  • More customizable options while choosing virtual machine configurations would be great.
  • To have regular online learning sessions directly from Ubuntu OpenStack experts [to] help users and for those who implement it.
  • Giving admin more control on what privileges they can grant to their users.

Most Important Features

  • Being more flexible with configurations.
  • Documentation which makes self learning curve easier.
  • Faster spawning of virtual machines with variety of prefixed configurations.

Return on Investment

  • Lighter on initial spending for the organization.
  • Deployments which have no vendor locking makes management decisions easier.
  • Support from great community saved lot of time for engineers managing it.

Alternatives Considered

AWS Auto Scaling

Other Software Used

Rally Software (formerly CA Agile Central), SUSE OpenStack Cloud, CentOS Linux, Kali Linux

First In Class, Open Source for Data-center Management

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Employee in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Very easy to use, learning curve is very short. Don't need to invest months of training before using it
  • Well suited with Jenkins for automated tests
  • Works well on large sets of heterogeneous hardware

Cons

  • Support for High Availability should be better
  • Commercial offerings should be more precise and clear
  • Provide more help and tools to migrate from VMware to OpenStack

Return on Investment

  • ROI is high because of automated tasks like self healing
  • Client satisfaction is higher because of less visible failures
  • Managers do feel like we have a better control on the infrastructure

Alternatives Considered

VMware vCenter Server

Other Software Used

Eclipse, Oracle WebLogic Application Server, JIRA Software