OpenStack Summit: Rackspace, Red Hat Enterprise Cloud Pitch

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Joe Panettieri.

The OpenStack Summit is "going enterprise" according to the opening keynote session that featured cloud user case studies from Comcast, Bloomberg, Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) and Hubspot. Rackspace (NYSE:RAX) Senior VP Jim Curry said this is "the year of the user" for OpenStack. Next up is a Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) keynote. The overall big theme: OpenStack is more than a developer movement; it’s also ready to help enterprises and cloud services providers (CSPs) that want to make money, according to keynote speakers. Here’s a keynote recap.

Jonathan Bryce, leader of the OpenStack Foundation

• Foundation started in Sept. 2012
• The foundation also launched the Gnome Outreach Program for Women, which has helped women to get involved with OpenStack
• The foundation will have an open house on Thursday to solicit more ideas on where the foundation can go next.
• "Six months ago we had a peaceful transition of power over to the foundation."…

• And in the past month, technical leaders like Vish Ishaya, Brian Waldon, Dan Wendlandt and Joe Heck transitioned their leadership to other members.
• "We now have new leaders who are stepping up, which speaks to the technical depth of our bench."
• "We are building a platform ecosystem for the cloud."
• A successful ecosystem needs powerful software, an innovative ecosystem and successful users. He mentioned iOS and Android smartphones as successful ecosystems.

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