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New IT from the Cloud for Everyone

Dan Harmon

Lenovo Cloud Technology Center

December 2016

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My ResumeProfessional

Engineer

(SW/HW)Product

Mgmt

Sales/ Marketing

Cloud Services/

SolutionsStrategy

& Ops

dan-harmon-

25876a

@

1DanHarmondmharmon@

lenovo.com

Athletic

Run a 40

like

you’re 40

Gravity is

Your

Friend

Run a

Mile

Today

Can you

help me

lift this?

Go Long

(actually

go short)

Watching

film puts

me to

sleep

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My OLD Favorite Team

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Four Tried and True Steps to Success

Have the Right Equipment

Understand the Game

Hire Great Players

Invite Friends – It’s More Fun!

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Understand the Game (debunk Conventional Wisdom)1

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The State of the Enterprise: Heterogeneous & Complex

The Average

Enterprise

is

COMPLEX

8 Cloud Services

173 3rd Party Apps

7 Mobile

OS

198 Internally

Developed Apps

8 Data

Analytic

Solutions11 Device Formats

200 Externally

Developed Apps

Traditional IT Silos

are

UNTENABLE

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Both Public and Private Clouds Can be an Answer

“96% of companies agree

that private clouds can bring

benefits of reducing costs

and increasing agility and

innovation”https://www.linux.com/news/it-skills-shortage-slowing-openstack-adoption

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Core Motivating Factors for Shift to Public & Private Cloud

100%92%

80%

50%

20%

5%

10%

30%

40%

3%10%

20%

40%

2000 2005 2010 2015 2020

Traditional Private Cloud Public Cloud

Cost Economics

Agility

Simplicity

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Private Cloud Emerging as THE Battleground

Private Cloud

Solutions

InfrastructurePublic Cloud

Solutions & Hosting

Tier 1 HW providers and ODMs Public Cloud providers

Infrastructure providers see Private Cloud as future

growth play. Public Cloud providers see Private

Cloud as accelerator to their businesses

Telco

Hybrid

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Have the Right Equipment2

KRAzy GLuE

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Open source Software is KRAGLE

“open source (is) today's pre-

eminent architecture, the foundation

for nearly all applications, operating

systems, cloud computing,

databases and Big Data.”- “Future of Open Source” Black Duck and North Ridge, 2016

Openstack

Market

35% CAGR*

(2015-2020)

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Pervasive Digitization Drives a World of Open Source

Software

HardwareFunctionality

Embedded & Monolithic

Past Present Future

Pervasive, Server-less,

Data Centric

Commoditization

Connectivity

Performance

Composable

Cost/Size

Power

Cumulative but uneven HW improvements are compensated by SW changes

Linux OpenStackApache Kubernetes Rancher0% open source

Distributed & Cloud

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2018 2020

Winning Technologies Proliferate: from Cloud to Enterprise

Hyperconverged

Source: Gartner, IDC, DCG model

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bli

c C

lou

d

2005 2015

Containers FPGAs and

GPUs

Storage and

Network

Acceleration

2012

Converged /

Integrated

Systems

Hyperconverged FPGAs and

GPUsStorage and

Network

Acceleration

En

terp

ris

e I

T

Containers

Coming…

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Hire Great Players 3

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Lack of Skills is Slowing Private Cloud Adoption

https://www.linux.com/news/it-skills-shortage-slowing-openstack-adoption

“86% of (enterprise IT managers)

said the lack of skills in the market is

making their companies reluctant to

pursue private cloud.”

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The New Skills Shortage: Open Source SW

http://searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com/tip/OpenStack-skills-shortage-makes-deployment-an-ongoing-challenge

Skills in Demand by IT Hiring Managers“We've seen a consistent increase

in demand for OpenStack experts

over the past four years. In 2012,

virtually no OpenStack jobs were

advertised on the site, but today,

about 1,500 positions are

advertised daily.”- Terence Chiu, VP Indeed Prime

https://adtmag.com/articles/2016/05/06/open-source-survey.aspx

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Invite Friends – It’s More Fun4

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Partnership Art: a Core Competence of Lenovo

• SDx

• Joint Innovation

• ThinkAgile - Azure

• Joint Innovation

• HCI & ThinkAgile -

SDDC

• Network Integration

• Big Data

• Analytics

• SDN & Core Network

• Joint Innovation-PRC

• HCI & ThinkAgile

• Joint Innovation• ThinkAgile OpenStack • Efficient IT

“Lenovo, in particular, is creating a sort of partnership art… has become one of the industry’s more

impressive set of powerful partners… increasingly impressive, even unmatched solution portfolio.” - Rob Enderle

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Lenovo Cloud Technology Center – Open Source Cloud

Lenovo Research &

Technology

Open Source

Technologies

ThinkCloud &

ThinkAgile

Lenovo

LC TC

Other Lenovo

Products

Ecosystem

Partners

Cloud / Partner

Solutions

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Remember…

1. The Private Cloud Technology Game is just getting started

2. Open Source is KRAGL to the Software Defined Data Center

3. Engage with LCTC, your BFF in open-source Cloud!

Thank You!