In this session, we will explore Cisco IT’s deployment of OpenStack and how to offer an internal cloud service. As our deployments, have grown we will show the progression of our offering and support model to provide Infrastructure as a Service with true business value for our company. As the clouds continue to grow the capacity management and evolving cost model will be explained with our lesson learnt and challenges overcome. As we look to the future our Feature enablement strategy and automated ordering, provisioning and consumption capabilities will provide the best experience for our application owners, developers and users.
Cisco IT's experience on the following items:
- Offering Models
- Cost Models
- Support models and the move to Devops
- Capacity management
- The change in application requirements
How these are combined for a business case to use OpenStack and the Return on Investment possibilities.