The Evolution of OpenStack Clouds

John IgoeExecutive Director Cloud and Big Data Solutions

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It started with a discussion about open source software…

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Out of that, an initiative grew…

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And grew into a thriving community

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The Pieces of OpenStack

OpenStack Compute (Nova)

OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)

OpenStack Image Service (Glance)

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The Pieces of OpenStack

• Dashboard

• Identity Management

• Networking

• Load balancers

• Database

• Queueing

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#3 Cactus:Service Provider(Apr 11)#2 Bexar:

Enterprise (Feb 11)

• Scale for Enterprise clouds• Objects of unlimited size

• Support for IPv6• Glance image registry

• Scale for Service Provider• Hypervisor agnostic

• Live migration• Multi-tenant accounting• Image integrity checks• Performance enhancements

• Storage as-a-Service• Networking as-a-Service• Unified authentication• Enhanced scheduling• Multi-network interface• Multi-region support• Network isolation

#4 Diablo:Integration(Sept 11)

Rapid Evolution

• Advanced schedulers for Nova

• Advanced networking (Quantum)

• @ milestone 2 (6 weeks iterations)

#5 Essex:Advanced

Cloud(Target 4/12)

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OpenStack is Real

• Real Investment

• Real Users

• Real Solutions

• Real Deployments

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Some Recent Stats

• Diablo has 12 major new features contributed by 8 different companies worldwide

• 1,500 active participants from 100+ companies

• 17 countries represented at Design Summit

• User groups in China, Japan, Korea, Europe, Africa, North America and South America

• 40,000+ downloads

• 1,700 visits a day to documentation

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• Massive scale-out capability

• Density for their infrastructure

• Operational excellence

• Manageable cost model

• Purchased Dell’s OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution because they . . .

– Believe in the OpenStack community and the technology

– Crowbar’s capabilities to provision hardware

– Can add applications to their platform

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Media & entertainment

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• Migrating content delivery platform to OpenStack

• Incorporating the ability to provision & manage the environment

– Believe in the OpenStack community and the technology

– Crowbar’s capabilities to provision hardware

– Ability to add applications to their platform

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Boston Area OpenStack Users’ Group

• History– Fidelity hosted the first event – large participation, even larger

interest– Dell hosted in Austin and had great reviews with demand for more

• Why– Ongoing community of local experts– Discuss best practices, tools, hurdles futures.. all the goodness– MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, Tuffts, Brandeis… huge pool of talent

• How– Rotating between 128 and Boston– Aligned with Milestones? Regular Intervals?

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How You Can Participate

• Website: www.openstack.org

• Mailing Lists: http://lists.openstack.org

• Wiki: http://wiki.openstack.org

• Meetups: Openstack-Austin, Openstack-Boston… http://openstack.org/community/

• Twitter: @openstack

• Dell– www.Dell.com/OpenStack– OpenStack@Dell.com– Blogs

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