Roshan RaviMr. WhiteSeven B EnglishMay 23, 2014The Future of OpenStack AdoptionA recent topic of debate has been whether OpenStack is enterprise-ready, and many organizations are controversial regarding licensing, cost, security, flexibility, and overall ease of use. Most companies are expected to begin mass adoption in the next three years. OpenStack is an independent, open-source private cloud platform built with separate resource pools that can interconnect. For example, you can create a virtual machine using OpenStack Nova, which will connect to the block storage component to store data. The same server can be connected to a vLAN (virtual network) to allow other servers in various locations to connect to a single network without expensive network hardware. Setup is relatively simple as you need to count, track or monitor which servers the software is installed on. Managing VMs created in OpenStack Nova is also simple as you can use the CLI from your browser via a VNC proxy. In fact, all resources and modules can be managed from the browser. This approach is significantly better than the traditional way, in which a company purchases rack-mounted servers and networking equipment, because virtual hardware can be repurposed and reused, unlike physical hardware. , where you need to purchase new servers when your app needs to scale to handle a larger load. This approach can also be used to make multiple low-end machines work together to get the processing power and storage of a high-end computer at a much lower price. Networking, in particular, costs much less since everything is virtual and there is no physical networking hardware, and OpenStack creates a mesh network. Segregation… middle of paper… lost source code software cannot be tested in production environments with thorough stacktraces. All users are also locked into a least privilege access model, which mitigates attempts by users to take control or "hack" the servers, as none of the users use a root account, which has full control of the server. Users also have role-based access controls to limit access to virtual machines and resource pools, as well as resource usage. It seems like most companies have researched OpenStack and many reject proposals due to the fact that it is open source and there are no contracts or service level agreements. What these companies don't understand is that open source may very well be better than closed source in terms of a private cloud solution. OpenStack is rapidly gaining in users and that number will continue to increase over the next couple of years.