Predictably, most speakers at the OpenStack Days 2016 event talked about the open source cloud platform’s strengths and showcased its success. Not so with Christian Carrasco, cloud advisor at CloudGuy.io. Instead, Carrasco’s keynote address at the event focused on the widely publicized issues that OpenStack has faced to date. When asked why OpenStack fails, Carrasco replied, “It’s not the tech. It’s everything else.” A likely culprit is deployment, he added.

Carrasco joined John Furrier (@furrier) and Lisa Martin (@luccazara), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, for an interview at OpenStack Days 2016 in Silicon Valley.

Carrasco has been working on re-architecting areas of OpenStack so users can “go to the next level” with cloud. Specifically, he has been looking at problems from the last five years. He remarked that many developers and engineers get “PTSD” from earlier versions of software, noting that these early experience shape their attitude toward the program, often resulting in a flat refusal to give it a second chance.

Imagining hyperconverged cloud

Carrasco commented that he wanted to “get out of the weeds” and “go higher” with cloud by imagining a hyperconverged cloud. Essentially, how it would work is today’s cloud providers would form a conglomerate cloud. Each would “converge completely” but still retain privacy. Customers would get have their own IP, which could connect to the “MegaCloud.”

Companies would be able to acquire new plug-in from providers to improve their own IP. Customers would basically use their IP as a driver. Operating this way would allow companies to get together and create standards, much like movements seen in past technologies. Interoperating would also create a better market, according to Carrasco.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the OpenStack Days: Silicon Valley 2016.

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