Speaking in Tech #134 - LIVE from the OpenStack Summit: OpenStack as a Service or as a Distribution
Hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela. This week, Greg hosts an all-star panel at the OpenStack Summit in Paris to debate the pros and cons of deploying OpenStack as a Service or as a Distribution. The panel includes: Jan Mark Holzer - CTO Office, Red Hat, Kenneth Hui - Business Development Manager, EMC, Caroline McCrory - Sr. Director, Research, Gigaom, Jesse Proudman - CTO and Founder, Blue Box, Manju Ramanathpura, CTO - Intelligent Platforms, HDS and Boris Renski, Co-founder and CMO at Mirantis.
During this panel discussion, we discuss...
Panel introductions (0:45)The case for OpenStack as a Service (2:05)The case for OpenStack as a Distribution (4:35)Defining services and distributions… and delivery (6:52)Services at scale and different market segments for OpenStack (10:48)OpenStack: "Still a box of razor blades" (15:17)OpenStack use case focus and goals (18:45)Control of data with service providers (20:17)Work loads in the right place (27:13)Maintaining distros: keeping up with OpenStack (28:05)Avoiding "The Enron Effect" with Platform as a Service (33:30)Adhering to API consistency (36:10)The "unfair advantage" of services (39:55)