Open Marketing Meeting 03/27/2013
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Open Marketing Meeting: Grizzly & Events Update March 27, 2013
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In this open marketing meeting, we discuss the major features for the Grizzly release, coming April 4, as well as a preview of the Summit and upcoming upcoming events.
Transcript of Open Marketing Meeting 03/27/2013
Open Marketing Meeting: Grizzly & Events UpdateMarch 27, 2013
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OpenStack Cloud Platform: Grizzly Preview
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OpenStack is the Center of Cloud Innovation
Developer growth
Over 480 contributors to Grizzly, a 45% increase from Folsom release
Change set contributors by employer
Red Hat, Rackspace, IBM, Intel, Nebula, HP, Canonical, Cloudscaling, SINA, DreamHost, Nicira, NTT, Citrix, SolidFire, SUSE
Number of Features
Approximately 230 blueprints completed
Attracting New Plugins
& Drivers
5 new networking plugins and 10 total block storage drivers`
Patches Merged
Thousands of patches merged, final number coming next week
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New features in the platform to support…
Production Operations &
Scale• Compute Cells &
NoDB data layer• LBaaS• Block Storage
Intelligent scheduler
• Object Storage quotas & bulk operations
Integration with Enterprise Technologies
• Strong Hyper-V support
• Five new networking plugins
• Ten storage backends
Easier Deployment & Upgrade Path
• Improved UI• Tested
upgrade path• Backwards
compatible dashboard
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Compute Production operations improvement/greater scale‣ Cells to manage distributed clusters‣ NoDB reduces reliance on central database
Better hypervisor support ‣ HyperV and ESX feature sets dramatically improved‣ Bare Metal provisioning framework
Testing improvements ‣ Upgrade testing with each commit
Integration with other projects‣ Networking: Hot add/remove IP address & devices‣ Seamless transition for old nova-network services
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Storage
Object Storage‣ User container quotas‣ CORS, Object Storage becomes more web savvy‣ Support for bulk operations‣ Building blocks in place for global clustering
Block Storage‣ Full block storage service ‣ Supports diversity of backend storage devices‣ Intelligent scheduler allows you to create volume on
the storage type of your choice based on workload
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Networking
Easier to use and operate ‣ Metadata, more features exposed, easier to upgrade
Enterprise features and support‣ Five new networking plugins‣ Security groups
Greater scale and higher availability‣ New LBaaS framework, expect plugins in Havana‣ Distributing L3/L4 and DHCP (dynamic host
configuration protocol) services across multiple servers
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Shared Services and Dashboard
Shared services‣ Image service: Multi-tenant sharing, common
properties for discoverable images‣ Identity service: Role based access control, new
token format, domains & user groups, delegation & impersonation
Dashboard‣ Improved user experience‣ Backwards compatibility with Folsom ‣ Exposure to more networking features including
LBaaS
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Looking Forward: Incubated Services in GrizzlyCeilometer ‣ Central collection of metering/monitoring data‣ Example: collect usage information for billing
systems
Heat ‣ Template-based orchestration engine for OpenStack‣ Developers define application deployment patterns
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Marketing Plans April 4
Press Release‣ Official release at 8:00 am PDT / 10:00 am CDT‣ Please contact us now if you plan to issue a press
release and want quote or promotional support
Website Updates‣ Grizzly page‣ Software/roadmap section
Materials Refresh‣ Collateral‣ Overview presentation
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OpenStack Summit UpdateApril 15-18, Portland, OR
Expecting 2,000 attendees!
User Story Focus
Bloomberg, Best Buy, Comcast, CERN, eBay, NeCTAR, NSA, PayPal, Samsung and many more!
40+ Press & Analysts Confirmed
Analyst Day Monday, closed event, focus on usersPress & Analyst lounge available for meetings
Marketing Meeting, Tuesday @ 5:20
Feedback on marketing portal
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2013 Event Pavilion
Gartner events plan – to be confirmed, feedback welcome!
• Symposium/ITExpo, October 6-10, Orlando, FL
• Audience is C-level execs, strategic decision makers
• OpenStack is planning a standard sponsorship plus ITExpo theater
• Data Center Conference, December 9-12, Las Vegas
• Audience IT management, primary influencers and tactical decision makers
• Considering 4- or 8-pod OpenStack Pavilion to help you drive OpenStack packages, services or hosting decisions
• Will include sharing in OpenStack sponsorship benefits, TBD
• Will be approximately $12K per participating company
• Please contact [email protected] if interested
Thank you
