I continue to be amazed by the size of the enterprise cloud opportunity ahead of us and the speed at which it’s moving. By 2020, 50 billion devices will connect to the Internet, and up to 85% of applications will be delivered through the Cloud. At OpenStack Summit Vancouver in May, I called on the community to drive rapid innovation to speed enterprise adoption and cloud service deployments. Intel believes Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) is the best way to unlock the value businesses of all sizes are looking for, and that a robust, easy-to-deploy, and easy-to-operate OpenStack platform is the cornerstone of an open SDI.
In July, we announced the Intel® Cloud for All initiative to make cloud technology available to everyone, and unleash tens of thousands of new clouds. One of the most exciting collaborations is the OpenStack Innovation Center, launched with Rackspace last month, housing the largest OpenStack development platform featuring two 1,000-node hybrid clusters. During my OpenStack Summit keynote in Tokyo today, I announced that we are opening these clusters to the entire community to benefit upstream development and enable testing at true enterprise scale.
This collaboration includes joint engineering efforts, with Intel employees working alongside the Rackspace team in San Antonio to solidify the OpenStack code base and accelerate upstream contributions. Working together for only six weeks, our teams have already closed 200 bugs, and we’ve established a 12-month joint engineering roadmap. We’re also building a pipeline of developer talent, working with the University of Texas San Antonio on OpenStack curriculum and internships.
In addition to Rackspace, Intel is investing in partnerships to drive OpenStack maturity for enterprise and telco with greater velocity. Today we announced expanded collaboration on joint upstream efforts with the HP Helion team focused on solving enterprise readiness issues. We also recently announced an investment in Mirantis as part of the Cloud for All initiative to advance enterprise readiness. Intel has held joint hackathons with Huawei, the last of which resulted in 118 fixes, including 44 that were merged into Liberty.
In the telco space, we are driving development of carrier-grade OpenStack. We recently launched the Intel Network Builders Fast Track program to deliver “end-end” solutions for NFV and SDN and are pleased to announce Red Hat’s participation in the effort, extending our longstanding collaboration to deliver standards-based solutions to the telco industry. Together, Red Hat and Intel are working to upstream features that will enhance OpenStack as a stable and credible platform.
Intel continues to be heavily involved in OpenStack Foundation working groups, which are making strong progress. The Product Working Group delivered a multi-release roadmap with committed resources to help technical leads plan their work with greater confidence. Among other achievements, the Enterprise Working Group developed a Solution Reference Architecture as well as a business guide to OpenStack. This work is tremendously important to IT decision makers considering OpenStack deployments.
While Cloud for All is an Intel initiative, we recognize no one company can succeed alone. Working together, our industry is delivering a robust platform suitable for enterprises large and small, and for telco networks of all sizes. Together, we are offering complete, ready-to-deploy solutions, as well as new capabilities and incredible performance to help deliver usages and services we have not even thought of yet.
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