As the cloud computing revolution continues to unfold, the open-source community strives to carve out its share of the market. The keys to a successful open-sourced technology are stable performance and a vibrant ecosystem of supporting services. With rumblings of the potential market for OpenStack starting to shrink, how will a budding ecosystem for the leading open-sourced cloud platform continue to evolve?

In private cloud applications where data sovereignty is paramount, enabling a true data protection scheme is making OpenSpack deployments more attractive, according to David Safaii, chief executive officer at Trilio Data Inc.

“As folks start to cauterize their clouds and business units are saying, ‘Alright. We’re ready to move our applications within clouds,’ there are business assurance needs that are going to pop up and data protection is absolutely one of them,” he told host Stu Miniman (@stu) and guest host John Troyer (@jtroyer), of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, during OpenStack Summit in Boston, Massachusetts. (*Disclosure below.)

Empowering more applications key to growth

When Miniman asked what new capabilities Trilio is enabling, Safaii recalled a conversation with a banking client in which he described ways Trilio is empowering OpenStack to serve more of the bank’s cloud computing needs. He quoted the client as saying, “I get to bring stateful information, do all these workloads. … So, we become an enabler, really, for folks.”

The bank is now using OpenStack to better enable tasks involving application awareness for image-level captures and network function virtualization.

Safaii continues to see new deployments in the markets and geographies showing the most growth for OpenStack. Large financial and telecommunications applications dominate the domestic market, while many smaller applications are popping up in the rest of the world, he explained.

So what is OpenStack’s viability as a technology moving forward, as Safaii sees it? He was confident in Trilio’s ability to add value to the ecosystem and continue empowering new applications.

“Its exciting for us, because its all been inbound,” Safaii stated. “Data protection evolves into resource management, and it broadens into business assurance.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s independent editorial coverage of OpenStack Summit 2017 Boston. (* Disclosure: Trilio Data sponsors some OpenStack Summit segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE. Neither Trilio Data nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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