future of cloud is open john engates rackspace
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ODCA Forecast 2012 Keynote: John Engates, CTO Rackspace Hosting Importance of open, multi-vendor, interoperable solutions to accelerate the technology shift. Benefits to vendors and consumers How Rackspace has benefited from adopting and leading open solutions in the industryTRANSCRIPT
THE FUTURE OF CLOUD IS OPEN
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John Engates
CTO, Rackspace Hosting
June 12, 2012
Topics
- Importance of open, multi-vendor, interoperable solutions to accelerate the technology shift.
- Benefits to vendors and consumers - How Rackspace has benefited from adopting and leading open solutions in the industry
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SOCIAL
VIDEO, PHOTO, RICH MEDIA
OPEN SOURCE
BIG DATA
Mobility
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BYOD
70’s – 80’s
Mainframe Era 90’s-2000’s
Client-Server Era 2010-beyond
Cloud Era
Yet 85% of computing is still
done
In private datacenters…
What’s holding us back?
RISK!
Private Cloud
Public Cloud
BUT IT’S GOES DEEPER THAN THAT…
APIs
Cloud
Resources
But it goes much deeper…
“…it’s the semantics of the resources in the cloud that matter,
not the syntax of the API.”
- Thorsten von Eicken, Rightscale
Private Cloud
Public Cloud
Private Cloud
Public Cloud
WHY OPEN? Innovation
Choice
Lower Cost
THE POWER OF ECOSYSTEMS
A PATTERN OF ECOSYSTEM DRIVEN MARKETS
VISIONARY MASS CONSUMABLE OPEN
What is OpenStack?
OpenStack Capabilities Related OpenStack Project Code Name
Virtual Machines: provision & manage large pools of on-demand computing resources Nova
Virtual Block Storage Devices: Volumes on commodity storage gear, and drivers for more advanced systems like
NetApp, Solidfire, and Nexenta
Nova
Object Storage: petabytes of reliable storage on standard gear Swift
Virtual Networks: VLAN or Flat Network, automation coming with Quantum project (Folsom Release fall 2012) Quantum
Web Dashboard: self-service, role-based web interface Horizon
Middleware: multi-tenant Identity Management that ties to existing stores (e.g. LDAP) and Image Service Keystone, Glance
Users all over the world are deploying OpenStack
COLLABORATING WITH FACEBOOK - OPEN COMPUTE Open Compute Too!
WE’RE BETTING OUR BUSINESS ON OPENSTACK
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RACKSPACE - FANATICAL SUPPORT
http://openstack.org
JOIN US!
Thank You
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