OpenStack Summit April 2013

At the last OpenStack summit we received a message from the Enterprise on the missing features in OpenStack (see: "Enterprise to OpenStack: Here's what you're missing" -
http://www .openstack.org/summit/san-diego-2012/openstack-summit-sessions/presentation/enterprise-to- openstack-here-s-what-you-re-missing)

That message was received lound and clear. While some of the points are still valid today, there is also a clear answer back from OpenStck to Enterprise: "Boldly go where few yet have gone so far..."

In this session will be covering the lessons we have learned so from positioning OpenStack in the Enterprise space: 

• Handling the alergic reaction to the "low-end disruptive innovation" that OpenStack embodies.
• Uses cases that get easier traction in the Enterprise space and why.
• Building a "strawman" building case for still forming markets (and why <big analyst firm> numbers are
• deeply deceiving).
• Make the service adoption, ramp-up and integration as smooth as possible.