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FOR BEGINNERS Putting OpenStack to work for your Business

OPENSTACK

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A LONG TIME AGO, IN A CITY FAR, FAR AWAY…

OF OPENSTACK

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2010: Started inside NASA as

the Nebula Project

2011: SUSE announced public preview of the industry’s

first fully configured OpenStack powered

appliance

2012: Red Hat announced a

preview of their OpenStack distribution

2013: Oracle announced it

had joined OpenStack as a sponsor | Oracle

announced Oracle OpenStack distributions

2014: HP announced HP

Helion and released a preview of HP Helion

OpenStack Community

A BRIEF HISTORY

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Increase operational efficiency

Accelerate my organization

Save Money Avoid Vendor Lock-in

Standardize

TOP 5 BUSINESS DRIVERS

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eCOMMERCE

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(VIDEO DELIVERY & PRODUCTION) AGILE PLATFORM FOR APPS

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HPC

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WEB SERVICES

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LET’S GO! SIMPLE, RIGHT?

Lilyana Vynogradova / shutterstock.com!

WRONG.

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DO NO TOUCH!

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WHAT MAKES OPENSTACK GREAT? YOU!

Join the discussions on IRC and/or Mailing Lists Post your experiences on Superuser Participate in the User Survey Join Working Groups that meet your interests Contribute code

Test the release docs/guides Help write documentation Help organize/participate in OpenStack User Groups File bugs for issues that you encounter

Stay engaged in the community as often as you’d like and however you’d like

Jesse Proudman @blueboxjesse