A lack of open source development support adds to enterprise #OpenStack criticism, as the platform inches forward with traditional IT customers and partners. Managed OpenStack private cloud gains support vs. roll-your-own IT shops map journey from #VMware Cloud Foundation to #IBM Cloud, #AWS #Azure Stack appliance choices widen, as pricing questions linger. OpenStack continues to slowly add enterprise supporters and users, while its critics continue to squawk. OpenStack supporters and partners proclaim the open source infrastructure as a service is a viable private cloud platform for legacy enterprise workloads. At the same time, the latest OpenStack user survey released last month reiterates sluggish enterprise uptake amid persistent concerns around its complexity and costs. Among #OpenStack 's enterprise supporters is #DellEMC , which has partnered with #Rackspace -- one of OpenStack's founders -- to offer OpenStack #PrivateCloud with Dell EMC compute and storage products. And at the recent Dell EMC World event, mixed views about enterprise OpenStack echoed the market's broad disagreement. As part of a larger organizational directive to move to the cloud, Providence Health and Services is standing up multiple environments in parallel, including OpenStack, along with VMware orchestration tools #vRealize Orchestrator and vRealize Automation. The goal is to request and provision a server in 15 minutes, versus the days it takes now to process through multiple teams, according to Paul Anguiano, a Unix engineer at the company. Anguiano is trying to convince leaders at Providence to move beyond basic orchestration of virtual machines in favor of OpenStack, which he said will give them more power and flexibility. Still, the use of OpenStack and VMware tools is less ambitious than full-on enterprise OpenStack deployment, to make better use of the company's existing tools and skills. "We're not married to OpenStack, it is just up and running," he said.
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