Summary: Red Hat's CTO presents the open source giant's case for becoming the leading brand of OpenStack for the enterprise market.<\/p>\n
Open source has been at the forefront of tech chatter for a long time, but arguably buzz around the movement has reached a fever pitch this year in the enterprise IT world. <\/p>\n
OpenStack, a global collaborative effort to deliver open source cloud computing software, is certainly at the heart of all this, pushed prominently by Red Hat. <\/p>\n
Speaking at Gigaom Structure 2014 in San Francisco on Thursday, Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens cited that the open source software firm has upwards of 100,000 customers. <\/p>\n
He followed up that he hasn't met a customer yet who doesn't want to discuss OpenStack -- if not being the first item on the agenda. <\/p>\n
When asked on-stage about how much of that is noise or solid deployment by real customers, Stevens leaned more toward the latter but acknowledged that the ebullient interest might be \"unusual.\" <\/p>\n
\"It's early technology. The code hasn't been around forever,\" Stevens remarked. \"OpenStack is much more than just the original two projects of Swift and Nova.\" <\/p>\n
Observing the most interest spread across North America, Europe and Asia, Stevens explained that OpenStack has emerged as a better model for building a multi-tenant, sharable infrastructure. <\/p>\n
For businesses wanting to tap into both the public cloud but also on-premise schemes, Stevens declared the answer is OpenStack. <\/p>\n
\"They know what's where they want to get to. The question is how to help them,\" Stevens said. <\/p>\n
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