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Revision as of 15:48, 23 December 2014

OpenStack Personas

Nishiki University

  • Daniel Yip (IT Director, Nishiki University IT)
  • Daichi Nakamura (Cloud / System Administrator, Nishiki University IT)
  • William Takeda (Post-Doctoral Researcher, Nishiki University)
  • TBD User (Researcher managing their own OpenStack?)

"Lead with speed and agility while keeping the same budget."

Daily Horizon Usage

None

Location

Ibaraki, Japan

Nishiki University

Nishiki University is a mid-size university focused on research. They have a mid-sized IT infrastructure that runs many mission-critical applications. They are frequently on the cutting edge of new technologies as they are used as part of the course curriculum and for graduate research studies. They value solid, industry standard technology backed up by vendor support that provides stability, reliability, and security.

How do you use Horizon Today?

I use it all the time as it's easier to use than the command line. I use Horizon mostly for allocating 3 instances a month. Every month I get an email from the Administrators telling me how many hours were used. What I like about it is that everyone is able to see everyone's usage.

What are your main responsibilities?

I use OpenStack as the backend for biological computation service that we provide to our scientific community. The other scientists are my customers and they'll upload data and spin up their own resources as needed. I don't want to bother the Administrators, so I manage resources for my customers or users.

Are you involved in the OpenStack Community?

I encourage my team to contribute to the community on their own time, but we don't spend much time in the code ourselves. Our infrastructure is working well now, and we have many users using it, so we are only going to replace that with code that is ready for deployment. If it is not ready, then we can't use it. I know we've done some backports in certain circumstances due to some unique hardware and/or applications we have in-house.

Daichi has been active helping with the OpenStack community with the Operator's working group and has helped with the Operator's User Guide and Security Guide for OpenStack.

What are the key obstacles that you see with OpenStack Today?

The biggest issue right now with OpenStack is that I need to hire or train people to build and manage OpenStack. Although it takes relatively few staff to run an OpenStack installation, finding staff with the skills to build it or to set it up is proving hard to find. We've partnered up with some of the programs to develop programs and areas that would give students the ability to experiment and learn OpenStack as part of their university curriculum.

Status: Draft

Data source: OpenStack and non-OpenStack Customer interviews


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