Last week’s OpenStack Summit left me with some strong impressions, along with some questions and reservations. The bottom line: If you’re an enterprise CIO, OpenStack is going to be very important to your future.
First, in terms of overall energy and tone, the Summit reminded me of last November’s Amazon Web Services AWS Re:invent conference. Both conferences exuded the unmistakable sense of, to quote Charlie Sheen, “Winning.”