gigaom 2013 highlights

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The future of cloud infrastructureFrancesco Bovoli (*)VP, Programme Management & Infrastructure

(*) Views are my own

• Barak Regev, Head of Cloud Platform• Only non-telco company who laid its own cables under the

pacific• Selling its cloud to enterprises• Currently hosting 3m applications

Google

• Tim Bell, IT Director• Needs ever increasing computing capabilities• “Not reinvent the wheel”• Adopted OpenStack, opened a data centre in Hungary

CERN

• Hosting 19% of the web, with 200 employees• Built scaleability in early days because they didn’t have money

to place all servers on the same data centre• Still uses PHP, “not the #1 world PHP users though” (facebook,

..)

WordPress

• Mario Mueller, VP IT& Infrastructure• Now 3m vehicles are connected to BMW data centres

– Traffic infos updated every 3’• Producing 1 new car every 30”

– Plants scheduled at 120% of planned capacity– Plant manager have expectation of “absolute 0 downtime”

• Manage 110,000 PCs, 9,500 engineering workstations• Built a private cloud

– IaaS, PaaS (DB), PaaS (web), PaaS (SAP)– release 1 goes live in 2013

BMW

• “Millions” of servers• Very important members of Hadoop

Microsoft

• David Fullagar: Director of Content delivery• Netflix uses

– AWS for all hosting needs– Custom built content delivery (previously: hakamai)

• Has 1 PB of content, preloaded about 100TB per server• Custom built servers, with 75% storage, lots of network, low

CPU• Application architected without cache, as “no two users see

the same movie at the same position at the same time”. System optimised for disk reads.

Netflix

• HP used to “talk more than do” about cloud• Now more serious, with Meg Whitman (CEO) and Ray Ozzie

(BoD)• Adopted OpenStack

HP

• Lew Cirne, founder and CEO• Industry says “If you’re not using NewRelic, you’re doing it

wrong”• NewRelic is now an analytics company

NewRelic

• Scott Sneddon• Startup• Virtualised networks “the next big thing” in infrastructure

Nuage

• Nnamdi Orakwue, VP Cloud• Focus on OpenStack• Provider agnostic• Big push in private clouds• “Dell loves OpenStack; it’s fantastic and graining great market

traction.” • Dell has banks, for example, coming to the business already

doing ‘things’ with OpenStack and that Dell is in the fortunate position to sit on top of all of this

Dell

• Maryline Lengert, ESA• Helix Nebula: European cloud compute partnership to

establish a multi-tenant, multi-provider cloud infrastructure– Suppliers: CloudSigma, RackSpace, ...– Customers: CERN + EMBL + ESA

• Prototype stage

ESA

• Lindsay Cassidy – RackSpace– RackSpace is founding membet of OpenStack– RS launched its Hybrid Cloud offering

• Hybrid = dedicated + public + private– “own the base, rent the spike”

RackSpace (1)

• Frank Frankovsky, VP Infrastructure• Realised most hardware are proprietary in design and

software• Started open compute project (@OpenComputePrj) 2 years

ago• Apply open source to hardware

– Started with custom servers, recently switches– New EU data center 100% based on OpenCompute– Eliminated plastic lids and proprietary elements– Everything serviceable from the front

facebook

• Brad Garlinghouse, CEO• “Rip’n’Replace” doesn’t work

– 80% of fortune 500 use SharePoint– Documentum not installed, but widely used, we will support it

• “CloudNostic” cross cloud search– “it’s not where you store your stuff,

it’s how you get your work done”• Main competitor: Box• “It’s all about security and control”• Most popular features:

– Read receipts– File expiration (on date, on dowdnload (“self-destruct”?))

• Nigel Beighton, VP Technology– “Consume” cloud services like dim-sum– LastMinute.com used to spend £100k in servers to serve

post-xmas demand – then played all year • Tools for perfect cloud consumer:

– API– Modularity– Monitoring (zabbix, nagios, newrelic)– Security– Financial control

RackSpace (2)

• Cloud is all about private, hybrid, public• All enterprises are building their private cloud• OpenStack gathering momentum in enterprise

Summary