Some improvements I think are needed are greater stability and more up to date packages. The Ceph Cluster components that we've been looking at are still in the previous Hammer release. We were expecting the next release to be pretty much in line with it; at least not more than one behind. They're a couple behind at the minute. Maybe a better track to the upstream software would be good.

With this obviously being an elastic type solution, the initial setup time seems to be taking a lot longer than we expected.

With a lot of the services we use, we need a single dashboard that could do more. At the moment, the biggest challenge in technology and security is redundancies in the systems. It would be great to have just one system that can manage a lot of your workflow.

I think that the challenge for HPE is their diversification into new markets. They're a new company and they are doing very well; but I would say that they still have a little bit of work to do with some of their partners. That’s understandable because it is still very new. But they really need to strengthen certain vendor relationships.

I would like to be able to select the best private cloud to use in terms of service and cost. If I need to put an application on the cloud, I would like to know which provider to use. I would like to know the best option for this application.

We need improvements for more hybrid use. Right now, the system is very focused on pay-as-you-go cloud services, and our customers are looking for more a hybrid use. They want to spread their services into the public cloud and pay-as-you-go cloud services.

Also, there are some drawbacks in terms of the ease of setting up these. You have to have a lot of knowledge about the insides of the software to get it in place. After this, it's really easy for an administrator to use it and to leverage the services for their interview system.

It also needs more integration with DevOps and the whole infrastructure process around that.

I'd like it to join up with other hybrid cloud solutions as my clients often have very complex requirements.