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What will become of OpenStack? Watch live from OpenStack Summit 2017

What can we expect from OpenStack over the next six to 12 months, and what is the open-source platform being used for in the demanding world of enterprise cloud?

OpenStack Summit 2017, starting today in Boston, Massachusetts, will explore these questions and others as attendees learn about the mix of open technologies. SiliconANGLE will bring you exclusive interviews from OpenStack Summit 2017 from our roving news desk, theCUBE.

As public and hybrid cloud solutions gain market share, OpenStack’s open-sourced platform for building private cloud faces competition from other open-source initiatives, such as container-based technologies.

When OpenStack was founded by Rackspace Inc., it was expected to usher in a new era of building enterprise cloud offerings. “There was a misperception that the industry would build its clouds on OpenStack’s platform,” said Stu Miniman, principal research contributor of the analyst group Wikibon, owned by the same parent company as SiliconANGLE.

While Rackspace still supports the OpenStack public cloud, the focus for the company has shifted to primarily work with private cloud solutions, where it has seen the most growth, according to Bryan Thompson, general manager of OpenStack Private Cloud at Rackspace, who was interviewed on theCUBE during the Red Hat Summit last week.

Thompson, however, maintains that OpenStack is still a growing platform. “So it is still a vibrant and growing platform; we’re seeing it as the platform of choice for not just how do I move virtualized workloads, but even for containers and other orchestrated solutions on top of that as well,” he said. 

OpenStack deployments have risen 44 percent in the past year, according to a survey released last month. Some 65 percent of users are currently running OpenStack services in application containers, with the majority using the Docker engine while Kubernetes is being run by 47 percent of OpenStack users. Additional detail about the survey is expected at the summit this week.

“While OpenStack is pretty much the only option for enterprises looking to build a private cloud with open-sourced technology, the question remains what percentage of the market actually needs such a product,” said Miniman.

Despite committing to fund the OpenStack Innovation Center until 2018, which it set up with Rackspace two years ago, Intel Corp. announced it would stop funding the platform last month. OSIC was established as a kind of laboratory for developing OpenStack as a platform for big businesses. The decision was viewed by many that Intel was giving up on OpenStack altogether; however, Intel, Rackspace and the OpenStack Foundation, which is also a party to OSIC, all insist they remain committed to the project.

Keynote speakers at the event include Brian Stevens, vice president of cloud platforms at Google Inc.; Suneet Nandwani, senior director of cloud infrastructure and platforms at eBay Inc.; Patrick Weeks, senior director of cloud, automation and operations at GE Healthcare Ltd.;  Martin Casado, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz LLC.; and Jim Whitehurst, chief executive officer of Red Hat Inc.

Other guest speakers at OpenStack Summit include, Elijah Elliott, domain architect of cloud at Gap Inc.; Jacob Rosenberg, head of infrastructure engineering at Bloomberg L.P.; Anna Lai, head of global business development at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.; Mark Collier, chief operating officer of the OpenStack Foundation; and Malini Bhandaru, cloud architect and principal engineer at Intel Corp.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

There are various ways to watch all of theCUBE interviews that will be taking place at OpenStack Summit, including SiliconANGLE TV and YouTube. You can also get all the coverage from the event on SiliconANGLE.

TheCUBE’s coverage for day one starts today at 11 a.m. till 6 p.m. EDT.

SiliconANGLE TV

You can watch all of theCUBE’s exclusive interviews and commentary from OpenStack Summit on the dedicated SiliconANGLE TV page.

Watch on the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel

All of theCUBE interviews from this year’s OpenStack Summit, which runs until May 11, will also be loaded onto SiliconANGLE’s dedicated YouTube channel.

Cubecasts

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on both SoundCloud and iTunes, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE

Monday, May 8

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE at the OpenStack Summit include event keynote presenter Jim Whitehurst, as well as other Red Hat executives, inxlusinf Paul Cormier, president of products and technologies, and Chris Wright, chief technology officer.

The lineup also includes Canonical Ltd. executives Mark Shuttleworth, founder, and Anand Krishnan, executive vice president of cloud; as well as Cisco Systems Inc. executives Lew Tucker, vice president and chief technology officer of cloud computing; Shannon McFarland, distinguished engineer; Ian Wells, distinguished engineer of cloud and platform services; and Jerome Tollet, distinguished engineer of chief technology and architecture office.

Tuesday, May 9

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE at the OpenStack Summit include event keynote presenters Brian Stevens and Mark Collier, as well as Jonathan Bryce and Mark Baker from the OpenStack Foundation.

Other guests include Darrell Jordan-Smith, vice president of telecommunications and ICT vertical sales at Red Hat; Sujal Das, chief marketing and strategy officer at Netronome Systems Inc.; and Cisco executives Anne McCormick, technical lead, and Sandhya Dasu, software engineer.  

Wednesday, May 10

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE at the OpenStack Summit include Beth Cohen, cloud networking product manager at Verizon Wireless LLC, and Lee Doyle, principal analyst at Doyle Research Associates Inc.

The rest of the lineup for Wednesday is still being finalized.

(* Disclosure: Some segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE are sponsored. Sponsors have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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