One of the greatest inhibitors of adoption of OpenStack in medium sized companies is convincing upper management that it’s even a viable alternative to their current infrastructure design. Moving to a private cloud can seem daunting but there are methodologies and strategies that can be employed to realize the enormous gains in agility, control and cost savings that OpenStack can provide.
You, as the thought leader in technology either as a systems administrator or a manager, will learn strategies and approaches towards accomplishing a successful approval and implementation of an OpenStack private cloud infrastructure against the potential constraints and boundaries of corporate management. Among the topics covered will be:
- Components of a successful project proposal
- Discovering and satisfying corporate infrastructure requirements
- Addressing and alleviating upper management concerns and hesitations
- Promoting and presenting your OpenStack project
- Team training and technological induction
- No cost proof of concept strategies
- Elements of a solid architectural design
- Alleviating risk