https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/intel-migrates-17000-vmware-vms-openstack-astonishing-ken-proulx
The highlights of the Intel report include:
$21 million in cost savings (to date)
Virtual server provisioning was reduced from 90 days to 30 minutes (yes, you did read that correctly)
90% reduction in provisioning service tickets
90% reduction in developer wait time for infrastructure
Delivery of self-service automation of server, storage and network provisioning
Enablement of Agile Methodologies, DevOps, and Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) and dramatically reduction in time-to-market for applications
They are on the path to achieving these benefits.
IT resource reduction – by removing 2,750 VM’s through shifting standalone databases to their Database as a Service offering, and by reducing their VM footprint through Phase II migration, consolidation and leases.
Manual intervention – IN the 2014 calendar year, hosting fielded 8,400 manual service requests accounting for approximately 190,000 hours spent awaiting fulfillment. Through rollout of their OpenStack control plane architecture in 2015 and the Phase II importation of legacy instance metadata, Intel IT foresees achieving its goal of 80% of routine service requests being fulfilled instantly and through automation. By the end of 2016, with Phase III, Intel IT intends to hit a 90% goal.
Accelerated time to market – OpenStack, by virtue of being an open source project, yields direct control over the capabilities that business demands and is forward leaning in terms of application / service development, delivery, and operations. Factors which weigh heavily in favor of OpenStack included it being geared toward Agile Methodologies, DevOps, and Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
Automation – It is in this regard that open source community roots of OpenStack really pay dividends for Intel IT in terms of being an open automation platform defined by its API’s. The Intel IT hosting team is able to leverage the same toolchain used by the OpenStack community for developing, buildings, validating, and deploying its data center operating system. This translates directly into enhancing the velocity with which Intel IT are able to deliver as well as the overall quality and efficiency with which they run the environment at scale.
Optimized Hybrid Cloud – 2016 goal is for Intel IT Hosting to automate public and private cloud utilization so that applications move to the optimal cloud based on business needs and workload requirements. Through OpenStack as well as through its Cloud Foundry based Paas offering, Intel IT is increasing productivity of its users, enabling it to extend the value of private cloud to additional groups and usages, thereby supporting its technology roadmap for utilizing hybrid (private-public) clouds to further increase scalability and cost efficiency.
Datacenter Best Practices – through experience gained from this transformation, Intel IT Hosting best practices with software defined infrastructure are shared with Intel Corporations’ customers and the OpenStack community.
Capability vs. Budget – with all of the efficiency benefits, time to market advantages, computer utilization increases, and automated operations, Intel expects to see tremendous capability improvements at lower costs.