 in the heart of Silicon Valley, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE covering OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015. Brought to you by Morantis. Now your hosts, John Furrier and Jeff Frick. Hello everyone, welcome to Silicon Angles theCUBE. This is our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, my co-host Jeff Frick for two days of wall-to-wall coverage. Of again, OpenStack Silicon Valley. This is the second year of the event. Hashtag OpenStack SV or hashtag OSSV15. Join the conversation, ask us questions, we'll be monitoring Twitter and of course, crowdchat.net slash OSSV15. This is a really amazing event. We're here live in Silicon Valley for where all the cloud players are here. Unlocking the infrastructure is the theme. Again, OpenStack, we've been following it since 2010 when Silicon Angle was born and now Silicon Angle with Wikibon Research and theCUBE have blanket coverage. We have all the videos going back to way back when it first started. Again, this is our second year. Jeff, great to see you again. Great to be here. And the couple themes here we have Jonathan Bryce up there really talking about the path to production. Laying out the construct of where OpenStack is on the maturity cycle. Talking about niche unicorns, where people are in the adoption curve and certainly mass adoption, high acceptance and maturity is virtualization and OpenStack compute. But path to production is the theme and you're seeing the other projects gaining steam. This is the core theme. This is what it's all about, unlocking the infrastructure. And again, OpenStack, heralding one of the best platforms to compete with Amazon Web Services for the enterprise with cross-functional, cross-platform API support and a huge developer ecosystem. And more importantly, the big guys behind it. So we're excited, changing the face of service delivery, ending the infrastructure as a service past distinction and creating 10,000 new cloud services, cloud sections they call it from Intel. So we have Intel, we have Google, all the top dogs are here. Again, Silicon Valley, the center of all the action. We are here. Jeff, what are you looking forward this event? Well, John, I like the fact that we get to go out to these events and watch them grow. We did our event at Portland years ago. It seems like OpenStack, a summit in Portland, 2013. And a lot of those people have been taken up, acquired. And as I was kind of recounting this event with George Gilbert from Wikibon, really kind of going through the list. And it was a lot of activity last year at this event. Cisco purchased MetaCloud, they purchased PistonCloud. People are making their plays. EMC got cloud scaling and Randy Bias, he went there right after this event last year. IBM just recently acquired Bluebox and Jesse Proudman, he'll be on later. And they just announced that they're making Bluebox available, OpenStack as a service, be a soft layer. So that's going on. HP obviously bought Eucalyptus a year ago. We just had the announcement of Intel leading $100 million investment in Mirantis. So there's a lot of activity going on. The big players are making moves and really looking at OpenStack to be the foundation for a hybrid or private cloud that really competes with Azure, AWS and Google platform. Yeah, a couple of the key themes here we're taking notes of, we're going to be watching all week and certainly the next two days is web services, microservices, the effect of vendor lock-in. We talk about this all the time on theCUBE. Lock-in was the competitive strategy du jour for most of the big vendors, really putting the customers in a position of dealing with one supplier or a handful of suppliers. That lock-in equation has been completely disrupted by open source and certainly with cloud. We're seeing the impact there. So things like containers, things like microservices, things like Kubernetes. Companies like Google introducing really new innovations. Intel is here. And again, OpenStack is a platform of innovation. That is the core theme. And again, ending this notion of infrastructure as a service, platform as a service. And we're going to take a historical look down memory lane on theCUBE where we've talked to people who have changed their jerseys, changed their companies. Companies have gone out of business. New companies have been born. Projects are emerging. This ecosystem is robust. It's healthy and we're excited to be covering it. And Jeff, one of the things I'm really excited about is to hear where the meat on the bone is. Because one of the key things that made Amazon Web Services really successful was the fact that they basically built on some really simple building blocks. Compute and storage, then added networking, and then added in a bunch of services. OpenStack Web Services is the innovation engine that has really disrupted, certainly public cloud were the number one and ultimately now in the enterprise. Looking at revenues north of $7 billion just for Amazon Web Services. That is the gold standard in the cloud. OpenStack is on a trajectory under the same construct and their innovation strategy. Core building blocks, virtualization, open compute, and then the rest of these projects are quietly moving and taking territory down and gaining steam. That is exactly what happened with Amazon. The question is, is OpenStack a day late and a dollar short? I don't know, I don't think so. I think it's solid. Yeah, and there were some challenges that came up last time we were here. Just as a note, this conference, the first time OpenStack Silicon Valley was last year, a one day show. This year it's two days. We'll get an update from Alex on our next segment. It's how many people are registered, but it's growing. But we talked about growing pains. Growing pains really is related to the college student that's got to learn his own laundry. Now these are not teenage growing pains, these are not adolescent growing pains, but these are growing pains kind of getting into the real world. Jonathan has been very adamant in being able to highlight specific customers that are now running big workloads on an OpenStack set. I think you interviewed a gentleman from eBay last week in Seattle who said about 20% of their production workloads are now running on OpenStack based systems. So we seem to be at a point of transition. I know a lot of people have kind of poo-pooed on OpenStack, is it a little bit late? Randy Bias really had some concerns about product management in terms of the way they're managing the development of this thing. But it seems to be going, I look forward to the update. Jeff, here's the bottom line with OpenStack. With OpenStack, it's about a few things. They have a marketing problem because it's so complex, it's not a one-size-fits-all, there's a lot of things going on, they are doing well. It is growing, it is on the right trajectory, in my opinion, based on all the data and all the companies I talk to, both on the vendor side, suppliers, and also the customers running deployment. And again, we are covering the cloud, go to wikibon.com and talk to Stu Miniman, Brian Grace, Dave Vellante, David Floyd. You'll see the under the hood disruptions in the technology that's ultimately driving a lot of the cloud. And certainly we cover all the cloud shows, we cover all the cloud shows except Microsoft. We'll get that show tuned when those guys let us come in there and broadcast live from Microsoft's cloud event, Azure, and hopefully that'll happen. But more importantly, in October, October 6th and 9th, we're going to be at Amazon re-invent. In Las Vegas, we're going to be on the ground in the center of all the action there to compare and contrast, to compare the vendors, look at and inspect the challenges on the technology side. Look at who's adopting, look at the enterprise. Where is the innovation? Certainly the consumerization of IT, consumerization of technology is happening. Mobile's out of, is kicking butt. Cloud now is powering innovations. So Jeff, really exciting times here in Silicon Valley, really exciting times in the cloud business, big data and infrastructure, and the enterprise is hopping, and we're going to be covering all the action here. Stay tuned here at siliconangle.tv. We'll be right back with live coverage, all the action here in Silicon Valley.