Best of Openstack Summit 2016 - Part 1

Openstack 2016 Austin Highlights

• Back to ‘roots’ to Austin, where it all started with just 75 attendees, now 7500

• Launched certification effort

• Many IoT applications, Like Smart city on Pisek (Czech Republic)

• Traction in Telco / NFV space – AT&T and Verizon on stage

• Big companies using Openstack in production: Wolkswagen, eBay, Best Buy, Paypal, etc…

• Traction in ISV Space – SAP presented, Workday mentioned

• Mitaka (newest release) Focus: User Experience, Manageability, Scalability

• Vibrant ecosystem, tons of startups and new services offerings

• First Multi-Regional Openstack Public Cloud presented (Mellanox)

• Collaboration: 2,336 developers, operator and users plus 293 organizations

• Run OpenStack in containers – may solve know how issue

Summary: Great keynotes, more of an enterprise conference, more VIPs and execs, many events at once, OpenStack is all grown up.

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