Day one of “the unlocked infrastructure conference,” also known at OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015, didn’t disappoint. And at the end of day one at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, theCUBE’s John Furrier and Jeff Frick recapped the takeaways from the day’s events, including highlights of the keynote address and several intriguing interviews on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s production team.

Pump up and hype in the valley

Furrier was feeling the rush of being in Silicon Valley, and he wanted OpenStack to feel the same. “OpenStack needs to throttle it up and break out of the pack and really demonstrate value,” he said, noting that there are a number of startups looking for that right space to “thrive and survive.”

Is OpenStack really the #5 Cloud platform?

Another topic circulating around the event centered around who held the number five spot among the dominant Cloud platforms. Frick questioned if OpenStack was legitimately holding the position amid players such as Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud Platform and VMware. He also wondered if there was someone in sixth place nipping at their heels, but he sees an opportunity for OpenStack to own fifth place outright.

Frick continued by looking back over the year and remarked how all the big players in the space have made big plays this year and are moving toward open source as the way to bring the Cloud to the enterprise.

Does the hybrid Cloud really exist?

The most-asked question during the day’s interviews on theCUBE was does the hybrid Cloud really exist. Furrier summed it up by saying that the hybrid Cloud is misunderstood. There are different schools of thought, but he suspects that the private and public Clouds will converge and ultimately end up being “the Cloud.”

Furrier believes this validates theCUBE team’s hypothesis that Amazon Web Services continues to dominate the big players, such as Oracle and IBM and that these companies will continue to target AWS in the public Cloud arena.

Building relationships

Relationship building within the community was another key topic of the day. Furrier brought up Intel and Mirantis, Inc., saying that this partnership will bring Mirantis to the next level.

The other relationship that had a recurring theme was the link between the platform providers and the customer on the enterprise level. There were many customer-centric references today that boil down to “giving the customers the tools they need.”

Cloud native

More insights came from today’s keynote speaker, Craig McLuckie, senior product manager at Google. He laid out why Cloud native is important to Google’s initiatives and why it is essential that every Cloud developer runs Cloud native. Furrier believes that Google is a great example a company who is living Cloud native.

Women in technology

The team ended the day discussing women in technology and theCUBE’s upcoming coverage of The Grace Hopper Celebration, which as Frick said, “It’s basically 10,000 women getting excited about technology.” The sold-out event will be held in October.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015.

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