The World #RunsOnOpenStack

Through two primary AI use cases as well as optimizations of existing HPC and AI workloads, FPT has built a significant OpenStack footprint spanning 3 regions, 2 zones per region, and more than 100 physical servers for each zone. 

Using Charmed OpenStack from Canonica has resulted in significant cost savings, increased control over its operations, and a simplified, unified cloud environment

As a secure and open-source solution, UNIQCloud allows robust data protection to coexist with agility and scalability, enabling rapid service deployment and timely response to the UN system and other international organizations’ evolving needs.

Walmart's team upgrades their cloud within a couple of days—upgrading over a million cores across the fleet every year, in a three-month window. They even skip versions to move faster.

BT Group’s journey towards a fully virtualized, open-source 5G network powered by Canonical’s OpenStack demonstrates the power and potential of open-source solutions in large-scale infrastructure projects.

Hyundai’s HCloud (built with OpenStack) is deployed in 4 major global regions providing connected car services to 10 million+ cars. These cloud services built using open source have allowed them to reduce downtime and improve customer services.

With OpenStack, GEICO integrates various open-source tools and platforms, which is something they couldn’t do with proprietary systems

VLAB is an educational platform, focusing on providing an enhanced educational experience for the end user, like the ability to schedule and access a virtual laboratory through an easy-to-use User Interface. 

The Georgia Cyber Range, hosted and maintained at the Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center (GCITC), is leading the way in development, deployment and management of Cyber Range environments to support the increasing needs of cybersecurity.

Convesio gains control over infrastructure and reduces cloud costs more than 50% by moving from AWS and GCP to OpenStack.

One of the largest OpenStack deployments in the world, Adobe Advertising Cloud helps customers optimize over $3.5 billion of digital ad buys annually. Adobe’s high-volume bidding application operates on an OpenStack private cloud with over 100,000 compute cores, managed by just four engineers.

Headquartered out of Frankfurt, Germany; Deutsche Telekom is a global IT company. The 20 year-old company operates Open Telekom Cloud, one of the largest OpenStack-powered public clouds in the world.

Video game developer, Blizzard Entertainment, implements OpenStack autoscaling to support running video games, like best-selling game Overwatch, in the cloud.

China Mobile’s telecom network has more than 800 million subscribers and 3 million base stations. China Mobile is now building up the biggest NFV network based on OpenStack with more than 50,000 servers in the network. 

Kakao modified and devised its OpenStack cloud to follow compliances and regulations which accelerated developing cycles so fast that they can build no-show COVID-19 vaccine reservation within 10 days.

OpenStack has changed service operation culture in the development teams at LINE, and this change has accelerated and supported LINE’s service growth. 

Trendyol, the largest e-commerce company in Turkey, combines OpenStack with its Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud, and AWS cloud environments. 

China Railway's OpenStack cloud platform, with a scale of 800 physical nodes, hosts thousands of VMs and a dozen of mission critical applications, which covers 18 railway bureaus and over 2,000 railway stations. They've shortened their application launch cycle from months to days, and saved 50% in energy consumption.

Swedish bank, SBAB, leversages OpenStack to provide mindful and innovative offerings of loan and savings products to its approximately 350,000 customers.

Today, Ocado is the world’s largest online-only grocery retailer, reaching over 74% of British households, shipping 296,000 orders per week, and growing fast. They use OpenStack as a cloud platform for its low latency.

Rakuten is building the world's first end-to-end, fully virtualized, cloud native mobile network, ready for 5G.The whole mobile network has been virtualized using OpenStack

The New Zealand based super market cooperative, Foodstffs, designed and deployed a highly available OpenStack platform based on VMware technology.

Enterprise software provider for advertisers & agencies, Adform, leverages OpenStack to allow its users to use the same images and tools for faster and more automated development, deployment and testing.

With 300,000+ cores, CERN runs OpenStack at scale to support experiments including the Large Hadron Collider. CERN deployed the OpenStack Magnum container service in 2016, and is now testing the Ironic bare metal service to manage both virtual and physical infrastructure with OpenStack.

T-Mobile has deployed multiple OpenStack programs with a mission to virtualize network functions, the largest use-case being OpenStack-based virtual evolved packet core (EPC). Working with OpenStack for NFV has improved stability, widened availability, and increased capacity for the 72.6 million customer company.

Ever since Target’s first OpenStack deployment in 2015, the company is actively growing in retail and technology innovation to improve scalability, containerize everything, provide flexible storage, and utilize service discovery, with 600 hypervisors and more than 32,000 cores.

OpenStack provides the maximum flexibility that Progressive needs to evolve their infrastructure story. One of the company’s most valuable tools, Snapshot, is OpenStack-driven and helps to manage and process the data used to provide usage-based insurance to customers.

The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research runs 2,600 cores of OpenStack on their Cancer Genome Collaboratory, a cloud that enables research on the world’s largest and most comprehensive cancer genome dataset and serves more than 40 research labs and 95 researchers across four continents.

Genesys uses Red Hat OpenStack Platform to manage infrastructure across its global datacenter footprint in more than 100 countries, as well as ignite an organization-wide approach to rethinking the use of technology during the lifecycle of their products.

With Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Cathay Pacific created a more efficient and scalable platform for developing and delivering new services. This has increased throughput for application deployment by a factor of 10, all while experiencing little-to-no end user downtime around these updates.

After deploying Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, Banco Multiva took its services online and integrated e-banking into its core system, all while reducing IT expenses and improving service offerings to customers.

Atmail depends on OpenStack to provide a robust, stable and mature platform for its global customers, helping them mitigate risk, control cost and improve user experience. With OpenStack, Atmail has removed bottlenecks and issues in old architecture and enabled cost-effective scalability.

The University of Edinburgh worked with Sardina Systems to implement an OpenStack solution that lowers costs, improves service assurance and manages big data, including Spark and Hadoop workloads. 

USACYS's education program allows instructors to create new and changing content for the benefit of national defense. Their DevOps-oriented approach is supported by OpenStack and has generated improvements in courseware quality and student success, while also significantly cutting TCO expenses.

As Overstock.com serves millions of customers on its website each day, application workload demands can vary drastically. Overstock uses "Elastigirl," a fondly named implementation of OpenStack Ceilometer with Gnocchi, to provide critical monitoring and elastic scaling of their cloud workloads.

With the help of OpenStack, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been able to provide the agility, flexibility, and scalability necessary to quickly meet demand, as well as extend accessibility to a broader set of scientific projects.

OpenStack helped bring together the previously separate divisions of data storage within The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation with a shared Swift cluster that expanded capacity and introduced new use cases beyond backup/archive.

SkyTV has built a next-gen TV and media platform to serve its New Zealand customers. SkyTV uses a hybrid cloud platform based on OpenStack and AWS to rapidly provision, update and manage complex application and networking environments across both public and private clouds.

The UK government, recognized by the UN as the most digitally advanced in the world, uses OpenStack to provide helpful and efficient user-centric services like GOV.UK Pay, Notify, and Verify and to streamline the process for UK companies to obtain import and export licenses.

GE Healthcare's GE Infrastructure Exchange (GEIX) is a remotely managed OpenStack private cloud that enabled GE to move 530 legacy apps to the cloud in less than 2 years. In that same time period, GEIX delivered a 49% footprint reduction and more than $30 million in annualized savings.

DirecTV used OpenStack to re-architect and redevelop its media and entertainment workload into a microservices-based framework run on containers. Using cloud-native designs, DirecTV was able to virtualize their media functions and launch a new OTT streaming service.

American Airlines chose OpenStack to deliver Platform-as-a-Service, enabling its operations and infrastructure teams to support a DevOps culture and deliver business agility and application portability in a hybrid cloud environment.

Using OpenStack as the foundation of its cloud management platform, Commonwealth has matured its approach to data management—advancing from experimentation to offering reliable predictions to delivering information that significantly impacts the customer experience and the way the business operates.

Relying on OpenStack, OCN built a dynamic hosting platform with the capacity to host dozens of operations and interactive systems, which allows the company to continue delivering high-quality media and entertainment services.

The French Interior Ministry used OpenStack to provide a faster, more efficient, and customer-friendly way to process asylum applications and driver's license applications. This was so successful that the Interior Ministry plans to migrate 150 more applications in the next three to five years.

China National Offshore Oil Group is unifying more than 30 distinct data centers that support 600+ applications by transitioning to an OpenStack-based global cloud platform. The platform provides IaaS/PaaS/SaaS service for the company's end users.

CIB Fintech Company chose OpenStack to launch its "Fintech Cloud," China's largest banking cloud platform. The platform serves more than 300 financial institutions, providing more than 400 cloud services, including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and BaaS.

The Garvan Institute of Medical Research hosts one of the world's five largest genome-sequencing centers, where data scientists sequence DNA on a factory scale to help cure rare diseases. With OpenStack, the computer engineering team delivers high-performance computing resources that researchers need.

Saudi Telecom Company chose OpenStack to build Saudi Arabia's first self-service public cloud. STC's OpenStack public cloud helps corporations, SMBs and government entities move to the cloud while enjoying expanded cloud services and easy, automated procedures.

Tencent, a leading provider of Internet value added services in China, cuts server costs by 30% and operator and maintainer costs by 55% using their OpenStack-based private cloud platform, saving them over RMB100 million each year.

By implementing Kubernetes, BBVA was able to transform its OpenStack infrastructure to virtualize their infrastructure network and become fully containerized. This revision improved efficiency in running, maintaining, and upgrading the different OpenStack services.

With over 16 million digital clients and more than 45 million internet transactions per year, Santander engineered OpenStack to run on their private cloud and adapted big data environments, storing almost 2PB of data, while also achieving automated provision of infrastructure.

Verizon uses OpenStack to achieve unified management across the network and the ability to move workloads between the edge and core. Their creation of a massivley distributed Network as a Service solution or "cloud in a box" allows the achievement of fast, on demand service delivery while avoiding vendor lock-in.

Gap uses 5 private clouds and multiple datacenters to speed up infrastructure delivery, enhancing everything from online sales, to web point of sale in stores, and even pipeline and manufacturing capabilities.

There were 56 million visits to Nike.com, the number 1 sports shopping site within the last six months. For both its online and retail locations, Nike relies on OpenStack for its $8 billion business, a transition that contributed to a 30% increase in revenue.

OpenStack has enabled IAG to move to a real time data architecture that allows for continuous integration and building of data products in days instead of months, delivering both internal and external customer value. They are currently supporting workloads from micro to 8xlarge and has volumes from 40G to 18TB per node.

Memset's multi-award winning distributed cloud, Memstore, runs on OpenStack Swift, serving 6.7 million requests per day. Their geographically diverse Swift platforms totals .75PB in capacity, while their IaaS deployment advertises 300TB of raw Ceph storage through Cinder.

With an infrastructure powered by 100 percent vanilla OpenStack, VEXXHOST is a leading Canadian public, private and hybrid cloud provider. OpenStack compute, network and storage are the backbone powering all of their managed solutions.

With OpenStack, China UnionPay scales 1,200 compute nodes across two data centers, making up 10,000 cores and about 2.0 petabytes of storage. Some 80 percent of UnionPay’s production applications, including many critical ones, have been migrated onto UnionPay Cloud, accounting for over 150 applications.

At the end of 2016, Workday had over 650 servers running OpenStack with more than 50,000 cores of total capacity, creating over 1000 instances daily. 

Enter CloudSuite, an OpenStack public cloud, is part of the Cloud Team Alliance that won an EU tender in 2015 to provide IaaS services for 52 European Agencies. One of their first customers is the European Environment Agency who runs a large automated environment with Jenkins, Docker and Rancher.

In a regulated industry with intensive performance requirements, Bloomberg chose OpenStack private cloud for proximity to Bloomberg data, security & compliance obligations and custom network design. They started with Folsom and now have more than 3,000 instances across 3 data centers.

FICO protects 2.5 billion credit cards globally, and 90% of all lending decisions are based on its score system. To power its big data analytics, including fraud and security, FICO chose OpenStack for its private cloud across seven data centers worldwide.

Betfair, the popular sports betting site in Europe with 120 million transactions per day, and uses Openstack for its CI/CD pipeline of more than 200 applications to production.

The Postal Savings Bank of China uses OpenStack to support its mobile app serving 490 million customers, for services including small consumer loans, mobile banking and self-service banking.

Comcast's OpenStack cloud spans 34 data centers and supports its Xfinity X1 TV platform, residential email, product development and Hadoop big data. With the cloud, they can build apps that can elastically scale to support large events like the Olympics and spin down infrastructure post event.

AT&T connects more than 14 million wireless customers via virtualized networks and has deployed over 70 OpenStack clouds globally, which are currently operational. By the end of 2016, AT&T plans 90 percent growth, increasing to over 100 production application and network clouds.

LivePerson started with the Diablo release and built their way to 8,000 instances across 7 data centers, running on more than 20,000 physical cores by mid-2016. Now LivePerson is leveraging OpenStack to quickly bring Kubernetes orchestrated containers into production alongside VMs.

JFE Steel is the ninth largest steel producer worldwide, producing 30 million tons of crude steel per year. Using OpenStack to integrate their data centers, they improved CPU utilization 30-70 percent and expect to realize a 28 percent reduction in overall IT costs.

State Grid is the world’s largest electric utility company with 1.5 million employees, supplying electrical power to 27 provinces. SGCC has rolled out OpenStack to one third of China's provinces, or 10 data centers to date, with plans to reach the remaining data centers in the next three years.

When public cloud became too expensive at scale, Snapdeal, India’s largest online marketplace, launched a hybrid cloud platform on OpenStack. The deployment covers three data center regions with an extensive architecture of 100,000+ cores, 16 petabytes of storage and a 100G SDN infrastructure.

Volkswagen Group needed to standardize its IT infrastructure and applications to improve workstreams and speed up delivery to the business. They began rolling out OpenStack in 2015 and are using OpenStack with Cloud Foundry for big data analytics, intensive design applications and website delivery.