Experts Required
Significant OpenStack expertise is required to build a private cloud.
True: There are more than 15 projects in OpenStack, with many more on the horizon to add functionality and address a broader set of use cases. Integration of these disparate components can be a daunting task that requires a substantial amount of subject-matter expertise and human resources – either developed in-house or sourced externally – to successfully execute. "Deploying the community edition of OpenStack is non-trivial," notes Randy Bias, vice president of technology at EMC and an OpenStack Foundation Director. "Organizations who commit to that path are going to need anywhere from 10 to 30 people depending on skill level for a larger scale production cloud of say 10 to 20 racks."