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.
