15 OpenStack Testimonials

“CADES offers a science-focused computing and data-analytics environment that requires underlying flexibility and robustness coupled with a set of powerful tools. A key part of this is a configurable cloud and Red Hat OpenStack Platform offers us exactly that.”

"We expected to see a performance impact because of virtualization, however it was considerably smaller than we expected for many scientific apps. The first major pain point that we felt was the quality and scalability of cloud software stack."

“OpenStack enables our infrastructure to succeed with its transition to a scalable cloud platform with rich management and automation features. To keep pace with rapidly growing business, we need to make a fundamental change to the way we view our infrastructure, not just technically, but also operationally. Cisco AS was sophisticated in helping us buildup the capability of our platform and our team during the transition. We are now working closely as one team."

“One of the driving reasons we went with OpenStack is because it allows us to be more agile, so when somebody comes up with a great idea like this, especially if it’s our CEO, the IT department doesn’t become the bottleneck,”

“There are many great open and proprietary solutions that solve specific problems for what you need when providing a cloud platform – compute, storage, etc. But when you look at our scale and ongoing growth of our services, juggling multiple solutions or locking ourselves into one proprietary solution wouldn’t be the best choice. It would be more limiting and expensive over time. OpenStack provides a broad collection of key services with great community and multiple vendor support. It is the best long term choice.”

“As we examined the various initiatives we’d have underway in our cloud, which would include the intermingling of physical and virtual loads as well as complex network configurations, we knew that the flexibility inherent in OpenStack would prove powerful enough to support our objectives. With OpenStack we have the ability to customize the platform and maintain significant control over our destiny.”

“IT resources should be shared, but risks should be distributed. and projected that implementing J-OSCloud would reduce IT costs by 28 percent while offering more flexibility, mobility, and availability of business applications."

“We didn’t start out trying to build a private cloud or even necessarily say, ‘Hey, we want OpenStack. We started out with the idea of changing the relationship with managed service providers…We basically wanted to manage our own V-center and V-infrastructure and the dev-ops teams wanted APIs. When we looked at the ways to deliver the APIs to them, we landed on OpenStack as the way that was most obvious.”

“We want to deliver the future of money today. What that means is we want to enable our customers to make payments any time and any waye are moving to the cloud powered by OpenStack to enable agility, availability and the innovation necessary to get the best products to our customers, faster than our competitors.”

"We decided to run OpenStack to help keep costs low, provide elasticity and help scale to thousands of VMs. Our immediate goals were to keep applications up and running, develop a large scale infrastructure with commodity servers and transform our infrastructure offering to a building block base.”

“We found out that less is more. Folks who had done less customization and stayed close to the trunk found OpenStack easy to implement, easy to maintain, easy to upgrade and easy to roll out.”

“It’s been a really interesting journey to start with composing OpenStack and some basic container environments,” he said, “and work through the entire process of composing the rest of these open source technologies, using a strong approach of getting the basics right first.”

“Snapdeal Cirrus is a fully automated software defined data center and cloud platform, where infrastructure is built and managed as code. We are proud of what our team has achieved — Snapdeal Cirrus is one of the few successful examples globally of a large hybrid cloud built at a scale of public cloud, purely using open source technologies like OpenStack and Ceph."

“The more that we can push off into services and concentrate more on our core product, the better.”

“Open-source, while important, is only part of the picture,” said Roberts. “To be an agile tech company, you need to react quickly to changes.”