{"id":5995,"date":"2014-05-13T15:34:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T20:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=5995"},"modified":"2014-05-13T15:58:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T20:58:58","slug":"atlanta-summit-day-2-speed-and-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/atlanta-summit-day-2-speed-and-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Summit, Day 2: Speed and Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re well into day two of the OpenStack Summit here in Atlanta, with a wonderful keynote presentation<\/a> this morning lead by Chief Operating Officer, Mark Collier.<\/p>\n

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He looked at innovation through a historical lens, detailing the ways in which OpenStack can help companies move faster.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has a lot to do with this massive transformation that is going on throughout the entire economy,\u201d Collier explained. \u201cThere is a revolution going on inside of global corporations. Every company has to move faster. Every company is now competing with a startup.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drawing further upon that point, he pulled some interesting statistics to illustrate the importance of speed and agility. According to Collier, \u201c75% of the S&P 500 will be replaced by 2027\u201d.<\/p>\n

AT&T, Sony, and DigitalFilm Tree were all featured Superusers that spoke to the value OpenStack has provided them. Toby Ford, AVP of IT Strategic Realization at AT&T, described the competitive advantage OpenStack is able to offer.<\/p>\n

\u201cAT&T has to move faster to compete, and OpenStack is helping to do that because we can expand to include workloads like Network Function Virtualization,\u201d said Ford. \u201cI’m confident in the model, people & in the adoption that’s happened. Expand the paradigm & think about OpenStack more broadly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following an impressive video around the MLB \u201814 The Show release for Playstation 4, Sony\u2019s own Platform Architect, Joel Johnston, described the usability of OpenStack on the back end. From a performance perspective, by bringing OpenStack in-house, the engineering staff at Sony can be sure that a real-time element exists.<\/p>\n

In a comical \u201cBetween 2 Ferns\u201d parody, DigitalFilm Tree CTO Guillaume Aubuchon explained OpenStack\u2019s true prominence within their business. As he described, “OpenStack is the cornerstone to almost every television show that DigitalFilm Tree does”. He also harped on the importance of spreading OpenStack\u2019s message, stating that \u201c…the next step for OpenStack is education. We need to educate a broader range of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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