My keynote for the OpenStack Summit of the Connect Expo 2015 in Melbourne Australia entitled "Bringing OpenStack into the Enterprise".

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BRINGING OPENSTACK INTO THE ENTERPRISE
RANDY BIAS, VICE PRESIDENT, EMC
@RANDYBIAS
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OpenStack is a driving force in
enterprise datacenter modernization
SO WHAT IS OPENSTACK?

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OPENSTACK FRAMEWORK
Horizon (dashboard)
Swift
object
store
Glance
image
store
Nova
compute
node
Cinder
volume
service
Keystone
identity
service
Heat
Orchestration
Ceilometer – telemetry service
Trove
database
Neutron
networking
• Provides an open alternative to proprietary cloud stacks
• Standardized APIs provide great flexibility, agility and interoperability
• Foundation for OpenStack-powered enterprise products

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OPENSTACK: A CORE PIECE OF THE
MODERN DATA CENTER
Competitive Advantage,
Agility
Modern
Data Center
OpenStack Project
Operational Efficiency,
Future-proof Platform
Software Defined Infrastructure
OpenStack-powered Products
for building Private Clouds

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OPENSTACK BUSINESS DRIVERS
Source: OpenStack User Survey, November 2014
47%
47%
46%
45%
Ability to Innovate
Open Technology
Cost Savings
Avoiding Vendor Lock-in
Respondents

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VIBRANT OPEN CLOUD ECOSYSTEM
OpenStack Distros &
Appliances
Public Clouds
Integration & Consulting
Training
Drivers

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MAP WORKLOADS TO INFRASTRUCTURE
Enterprise Virtualization
Don’t
Migrate
Could
Migrate
Cloud
Possible
Cloud
Native
$1x$4-8x
Custom Legacy
Apps
Websites,
Dev/Test, Collaboration Apps,
Packaged Software (ERP/CRM)
Scale-out Web Apps,
Apps Hosted on PaaS,
Big Data, Mobile Apps
Elastic Cloud Infrastructure
CLOUD NATIVE APPS
(ELASTIC, “PLATFORM 3”)
LEGACY APPS
(INELASTIC, “PLATFORM 2”)

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• Public perception still wrong: it’s the Linux Kernel, not RHEL
• Tragedy of the commons: how to reconcile too many chefs?
• Ruthless prioritization and product management required
• Distributions are the gold standard for success
– Walmart.com, Budd Van Lines, Pacnet, etc.
– Unless you have 30-40 full-time developers to spare and need to build your own
cloud operating system?
• Infrastructure developers dominate OpenStack mindshare
– Over half of Individual Foundation Directors are OpenStack devs in last election
– Operators, end-users and app developers woefully underrepresented
STATE OF THE STACK 2015

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TOO MANY COMPONENTS AND WAYS TO BUILD

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YOU CAN TRUST THE PLATFORM TO RUN
BUSINESS CRITICAL APPS AND SERVICES
OpenStack Framework
OpenStack-powered Products

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6 REQUIREMENTS OF ENTERPRISE-GRADE
OPENSTACK
99.999% UPTIME
CONTROL PLANE
NO DOWNTIME. YOUR CLOUD IS ALWAYS
AVAILABLE
ROBUST
MANAGEMENT
ACHIEVE OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE WITH
FULL LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
OPEN
ARCHITECTURE
REDUCE VENDOR LOCK-IN &
USE THE COMPONENTS YOU WANT
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HYBRID CLOUD
INTEROPERABILITY
COMMON ARCHITECTURE FOR HYBRID
CLOUD: PUBLIC & PRIVATE
SCALABLE &
ELASTIC
SUPPORTS CLOUD-NATIVE WORKLOADS
AND WEB-SCALE IT
GLOBAL SUPPORT
AND SERVICES
ACHIEVE SLAs AND ADHERE TO
EXISTING IT SUPPORT COMMITMENTS
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OPENSTACK TO THE MAX …
① Don’t DIY OpenStack….. seriously
• Would you roll your own Linux distribution?
② Use a trusted vendor with proven OpenStack expertise
③ Complexity isn’t in OpenStack, it’s in building a private cloud
④ Demand public cloud compatibility APIs from OpenStack community
⑤ Find examples in your vertical and replicate them

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Q&A