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Cloud and IaaS

Indian Openstack User Group 5th May 2012

Govind Tatachari

Agenda

Cloud computing … warm-up

Discussion Segments:

Why Cloud Computing?

What IS or IS NOT Cloud Computing?

IaaS markets – some insights

Did you know?

IaaS: Towards Reference Architecture

© 2012 Govind Tatachari

Too many choices …


IBM

Openstack

Private

SaaS

AWS Rackspace

Hybrid

OpenNebula

IaaS

DropBox

Platform-as-a-

Service

Eucalyptus Azure

HP

VMware

Virtualization

GoGrid

… can be mentally exhausting

Citrix

… but good for official goal-setting


… and simply explained humor


Discussion Segment

Why Cloud Computing?


What is the purpose/objective?

Is there a business problem to be solved?

Is cloud computing just too SHINY A NEW TOY?

Can it ADDRESS/SOLVE any of India’s challenges/problems?

Is cloud computing just too DISRUPTIVE to ignore?


What is the purpose/objective?

Is there a business problem to be solved?

Is cloud computing just too SHINY A NEW TOY?

Can it ADDRESS/SOLVE any of India’s challenges/problems?

Is cloud computing just too DISRUPTIVE to ignore?


Enable new solutions!

Collaboration

Scalability

Flexibility

Availability

Portability

Cost

Cloud ecosystem: nascent, fragmented & growing


SYSTEM

INTEGRATORS

INDEPENDENT

SOFTWARE

VENDORS

CLOUD CONSUMERS

TECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS

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… fraught with uncertainities and risks …

How do you make your move “manageable”?

Adapted from RobustCloud

Discussion Segment

What IS or IS NOT Cloud Computing?


Cloud computing characteristics


Adapted from National Institute ot Science and Technology (NIST) and observations by Rui Esteves

Essential

characteristics

What makes it different from

other solutions

Service delivery

models

What services are delivered

Enabing

Technologies

What makes it possible

Deployment

models

How services are deployed

Common characteristics

Specific characteristics

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IS it Cloud or NOT?

Cloud computing

Common

Characteristics

Essential

Characteristics

Enabling

Technologies

Specific

Characteristics

Service

Delivery

Models

Deployment

Models


Datacenter as a Service

Processing as a Service

Storage as a Service

Network as a Service

Desktop as a Service

On-demand

Self-Service

Scalable

Measurable

Is it “OSSM” (AWESOME)?

Evolution of IT computing models


Extreme

Uptime

(99.999)

Expensive

Custom

Hardware

Centralized

Service

Model

Vertical

Scaling

Hardware

HA

Centralized

Designed

for Failover

Expensive

“Semi-commodiity”

Hardware

Shared

Service

Model

Horizontal

Scaling

Software

HA

Decentralized

Designed

for Failure

(Always On)

Cheap

Commodity

Hardware

Distributed

Self-Service

Model

Client-Server Mainframe Cloud

Source: Cloudscaling and NEC

Discussion Segment

IaaS Market – some insights


Ranking: Public cloud IaaS companies


Source: Gartner Magic Quadrant (December 2011)

Ranking: Top 10 most powerful IaaS companies

1 Amazon Web Services The gold standard

2 Bluelock Out of the blue

3 CSC Targetting the enterprise

4 GoGrid All cloud, all the time

5 IBM Leveraging the installed base

6 Openstack No vendor lock-in

7 Rackspace Taking a leadership role

8 Savvis Full range of options

9 Terremark Three-pronged VMware-based approach

10 VMware Key building block


Source: Christine Burns, Network World US, 15 April 2012

Cloud Acquisitions <2010: A Partial List


D Center

Virtual. PaaS SaaS DaaS EcoSys

CA Cassatt 4Base 3Terra Oblicore Nimsoft

Cisco LineSider, Tidal

Webex, Skype

ScanSafe

Citrix Paglo VMLogix SpringSource PostPath

Dell Ocarina 3PAR Boomi

EMC FastScale, Integrien, Greenplum

VMware TriCipher

HP IBRIX, Opsware, Lefthand

PolyServe Fortify Melodeo

IBM Storwize Lombardi, Unica, Coremetrics

CastIron, Netezza

Oracle Sun Virtual Iron Passlogix

RackSpace JungleDisk Slicehost Webmail.us

Salesforce Heroku DimDim, Activa

Jigsaw Instranet, Groupswim

Source: Dani Shomron, ISC, Jan 2010

Cloud Business: Interesting Numbers


Source Data

IDC Cloud search >$16 Billion .. Predicted to grow at CAGR 27.4%

AWS Revenue Growth

@50% YoY Growth for past 5 years Current earnings ~ $500 Million

Rack Space Cloud Earning

Cloud product sales rose 85 per cent in the quarter, touching 43m ( Aug 2011)

The Growing Cloud …………………………

……..

Source: Divyanshu Verma, Dell R&D

Growth of Rackspace Cloud Business


Quarters RackSpace Cloud Earning QoQ Growth % YoY %

Sep-10 26,763,000

Dec-10 31,415,000 17

Mar-11 37,107,000 18

Jun-11 42,954,000 16

Sep-11 50,673,000 18 89

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RackSpace Cloud Earning

RackSpace Cloud Earning

http://ir.rackspace.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=221673&p=irol-calendarpast

Discussion Segment

Did you know?


Did you know?

BYOC (CYA) projects: You can ...

run an instance of Openstack on your laptop

run an instance of Openstack on a couple of EC2 instances

build a private cloud running Openstack in your lab

24 cores

6 TB disk

48 GB memory

Dual 1GBit network

a KVM switch

… and some snacks and few cups/cans of favorite drink

for ~ Rs. 1.5 to 2 Lakhs


History and Timeline of Openstack


July 2010 July 2010

OpenStack

launches

with 25+

partners

First public

Design

Summit in

San Antonio

OpenStack Conference

& OpenStack Essex

Design Summit Fall

2011

Oct 2011 Nov 2010 Apr 2012

OpenStack Global

Community grows

to 160+ companies

Openstack Ecosystem


At present there are 160+ companies in Openstack ecosystem

http://openstack.org/community/companies

Discussion Segment

Towards IaaS Reference Architecture


Source: Sumayah Alrwais, Indiana University

Eucalyptus Architecture


Network Configuration per node


Feature Comparison

Feature/IaaS Eucalyptus Openstack Nimbus

Virtual Network VDE VDE & Open vSwitch VDE

VM Isolation VLAN VLAN Not available

System Security Firewall filters (Security groups), SSH & WS-Security

VPN access, SSH, security groups and Cloudaudit

VPN access, SSH, and use of globus certificate credentials

User Security User credentials provided thro’ web interface

User credentials using certificate authority for VPN access

User’s X.509 public key certificate which is provided to the cloud

DHCP On the cluster controller

On the network controller

On the individual node

Hypervisor Support XEN, KVM & VMWare XEN, KVM, UML, QEMU & Hyper-V

XEN & KVM

Storage System Warlus Object store (Swift) Cumulus

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