The document discusses OpenStack and its use in enterprises. It notes that adoption of open source software is increasing beyond cost savings and is now seen as providing quality, reliability, and faster time to market. Open source is being adopted across various enterprise processes, especially customer-facing ones. The document suggests open source is well-suited for cloud infrastructure and development/test environments. It raises considerations for the combination of open source and cloud in enterprises like security, licensing, and vendor lock-in.

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OpenStack and the Enterprise
Joseph Tobolski
Accenture Technology Labs
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4. • Findings based on Accenture Survey [Investment in Open Source Software Set to Rise],
June-2010 (The survey of 300 blue-chip organizations in both public and private sector)
Market Trends
Key Drivers of OSS Adoption
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Lower cost is no longer seen as the key benefit, instead OSS benefits are
seen in terms of its Quality, Reliability and Time to Market (Speed).

5. Market Trends
Increasing Adoption
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The foundations start to be in place and open source adoption is
increasing further and expanding into mission critical systems.
• Findings based on Accenture Survey [Investment in Open Source Software Set to Rise],
June-2010 (The survey of 300 blue-chip organizations in both public and private sector)

6. Market Trends
Adoption Areas
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OSS adoption is strongest in customer facing processes, but adoption is
quickly spreading across all the enterprise processes.
• Findings based on Accenture Survey [Investment in Open Source Software Set to Rise],
June-2010 (The survey of 300 blue-chip organizations in both public and private sector)

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Cost reduction
Elasticity/scalability
Speed to market
High performance computing
Companies are considering cloud for the same reason...
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8. IT leaders believe that within five years cloud will enable
speed, flexibility, responsiveness and innovation.
8Source: Global Cloud Computing Survey, Accenture Institute for High Performance, 2010.
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“IT Leaders are
embracing the Cloud”
“IT Leaders are
looking to the Cloud”
2-5 yearsToday

9. DevArch
OpsArch
Devicetop
Operating
system
Devices
OSS deployed on a cloud based infrastructure platform will be the most
likely scenario of cloud and open source combination in the short term.
IaaS
Infrastructure
Cloud
Open source is ideal for deploying
on top of infrastructure in the cloud
today. This enables cost-efficiency
and quick ramp-up times of
environments. The most likely
scenarios for this are development
and test environments and as IaaS
vendors SLA’s evolve production
environments also become a real
choice.
Middleware
Business
Applications
Frameworks
Traditional open-source stack.
Cloud infrastructure
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The link between Cloud and Open Source

10. What are the big enterprise opportunities?
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• Security/Compliance
• Software Licensing
• SLA’s
• Terms and Conditions
• Performance/Latency
• Management
• Vendor Lock In
• The Myth of Private Cloud
• Telcos
• Service Providers
• Larger enterprises
• Government

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joseph.f.tobolski@accenture.com
jftobolski (T, FB, Y!, G, etc)
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