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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