This document summarizes an OpenStack presentation in Australia. It discusses establishing the Australian OpenStack User Group to build a local community, Australian cloud uptake and challenges around data sovereignty that OpenStack can address. It also describes a "Storage for Life" concept using OpenStack to give users control over their data across different silos and providers.

1. OPENSTACK EXPERIENCES IN AUSTRALIA
2012
Phil Rogers - CTO Aptira, and Tristan Goode - CEO Aptira

2. PRESENTATION AGENDA
Establishing a local community, the Australian OpenStack User Group (AOSUG)
Australian Cloud uptake, the Data Sovereignty question, & OpenStack answers
Our “Storage for Life” concept, time to get your data back, using OpenStack

3. OPENSTACK SWIFT CLIENTS
Gladinet Cyberduck CloudBerry
Duplicati Rackspace IOS App
Cheers Mike!

4. ESTABLISHING A LOCAL COMMUNITY
THE AUSTRALIAN OPENSTACK USER GROUP

5. CHECK OUT THE COOL STUFF THE GUYS AT NECTAR HAVE DONE!

6. AOSUG MEETUP.COM GROUP AND OPENSTACK-AU GOOGLE GROUP

7. PARTICIPATING COMPANIES

8. APTIRA AND RACKSPACE – NEW FRIENDS BY OPENSTACK

9. THE PEOPLE OF AOSUG

10. SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE INAUGURAL MEETUPS DEC 13 & JAN 17

11. THE SYDNEY OZSTACKERS MEET JAMES WILLIAMS

12. MARCH 26 OPENSTACK TECHNICAL PRESENTATION MEETUP

13. JOHN DICKINSON – OUR SWIFT BIG BROTHER?

14. INDIAN OPENSTACK USERS GROUP – FIRST MEETUP APRIL 5

15. BEGINNERS TIPS WE’VE LEARNT SO FAR
1. Timing of sessions is important.
2. Reach out wherever you can.
3. Get vendors involved.
4. Check the venue, and check it again.
5. Under estimate RSVP numbers.
6. Engage the serial RSVPers, (thanks Martin!)
7. Beware of MeetUp.com calendar appointments!
8. Sponsors and contributors should have priority.

16. AUSTRALIAN CLOUD UPTAKE, THE DATA SOVEREIGNTY
QUESTION, AND OPENSTACK ANSWERS

17. IAAS MARKET: MARKET ENGINEERING MEASUREMENTS (AUSTRALIA)

18. DO THE RISKS OF CLOUD COMPUTING OUTWEIGH THE BENEFITS?
41 per cent of organisations in Australia
believe that the risks associated with Cloud
computing – such as security, privacy and
reliability, far outweigh any potential
benefits.
This may also be the case in other nations!

19. WHAT ABOUT GOVERNMENT CLOUD ADOPTION IN AUSTRALIA?

20. DATA SOVEREIGNTY
Illustration: Karl Hilzinger

21. THE US PATRIOT ACT
Section 217 of the Patriot Act permits US government
interception of the "communications of a computer trespasser"
if the owner of a "protected computer" authorized that
surveillance. The law's definition of "protected computer"
includes systems "used in interstate or foreign commerce or
communication”.
The Electronic Privacy Information Centre did an analysis of this
provision. It found the provision so broad that "protected
computer" could be interpreted to mean any computer!
More information is available from
the Electronic Privacy Information Centre
http://epic.org/privacy/terrorism/usapatriot/

22. THE EUROPEAN LAUNCH OF OFFICE 365
The question put forward to Microsoft's managing director in the
UK, Gordon Frazer:
“Can Microsoft guarantee that EU-stored data, held in EU based
data centers, will not leave the European Economic Area under
any circumstances — even under a request by the Patriot Act?”
He said:
“Microsoft cannot provide those guarantees. Neither can any
other company.“

23. COLLATERAL DAMAGE?
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/f-b-i-seizes-web-servers-knocking-sites-offline/

24. AUSTRALIAN LEGISLATION THAT WE NEED TO CONSIDER
• Electronic Transactions Act 2003, Spam Act 2003
• Cybercrime Act 2001
• Copyright Amendment (Digital Agenda) Act 2000
• Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000
• Privacy Act 1988, Archives Act 1983
• Freedom of Information Act 1982, and
Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979

25. WHAT CAN FEDERATED CLOUD CAN DO FOR YOUR ORGANISATION
• Using multiple clouds for different applications to match business needs
• Allocating components of an application to different environments
(e.g., compute vs. database tiers), whether internal or external
(“application stretching”)
• Moving an application to meet requirements at specific stages in its
lifecycle, from early development through UAT, scale testing, pre-
production and ultimately full production scenarios
• Moving workloads closer to end users across geographic
locations, including user groups within the enterprise, partners and
external customers
• Meeting peak demands efficiently in the cloud while the low steady-state
is handled internally

26. HYBRID PUBLIC CLOUD SLIDE 1
Cross Realm Keystone
Authentication PUBLIC CLOUD
Common Platform Across Clouds
• Seamlessly manage and move
work loads and data between public
and private clouds
Keystone • Sync/Move Swift containers
between regions (clouds)
PRIVATE CLOUD
• Maintain a single user database

27. HYBRID PUBLIC CLOUD SLIDE 2
PUBLIC CLOUD Keystone Keystone
Provider #1 PUBLIC CLOUD
Provider #2
Cross Realm
Authentication
Keystone
Choose what and where with the one
PRIVATE CLOUD common management infrastructure.
Take ownership of your data!

28. INTERCLOUD, USING OPENSTACK
Provider #1
Customer Swift
Swift Storage
IaaS
Proxies
Keystone
Utilize region support so that
provider #2 becomes a (virtual)
extension to provider #1’s Proxy on Cross Realm
environment. Customer can choose customers behalf Authentication
what region data is stored. The actual
underlying infrastructure is
completely obscured to the end
customer. They just see multiple
regions within the one provider. Keystone
Swift Swift
Proxies Storage
Provider #2

29. MULTI-REALM KEYSTONE – THANKS KEVIN!
http://wiki.openstack.org/MultiRealmKeystone

30. THE GOAL
Customer wins,
OpenStack wins,
Provider wins,
Public Cloud wins,
and complicated legislation loses!

31. HTTP://APTIRA.COM

32. OUR “STORAGE FOR LIFE” CONCEPT, TIME TO GET YOUR
DATA BACK, USING OPENSTACK

33. IS YOUR DATA EVERYWHERE?

34. THE QUESTIONS
• Where are all these Silos physically stored?
• What events are they vulnerable to?
• What access plan exists in the event I pass away? Can the
executor of my estate secure proper title?
• What legislation will apply to the use of my data?
• Is my privacy at risk?
How should one minimise these risks?

35. LETS BREAK THESE SILOS DOWN!
• All your data in one place, that you choose.
• Safe, secure, replicated to locations you choose, with your
privacy preserved.
• Transparently access all your data across devices via diverse
client applications.
• Data completely transportable between storage providers.
No lock in.
• I may now have a single Silo, but it’s very safe due to best
practice DR considerations undertaken by your OpenStack
provider!
Here’s a start, My email stays with me....

36. MY EMAIL STAYS WITH ME
• My email is no longer stored by my service provider. I control
its location and storage limits.
• If I change providers I don’t loose my old emails.
• My service provider is just a conduit for delivery.
• Same principle can be applied to photos, videos, and my
social media presence
A new Swift SMTP API
The mail server vendor supports an API into Swift as an
optional, per user backend for their mail system.

37. DELIVERY OF MY MAIL TO MY OWN SILO
Someone sends me an email...
MY DATA
Recipient Mail
OpenStack
Server Cluster Provider #1
SMTP API
Storage API OpenStack
Provider #2
THE INTERNET
Traditional OpenStack
Mail Storage Provider #3
at the ISP

38. BENEFITS
• ISP’s are relieved of massive storage costs.
• ISP’s storage restrictions removed from end user.
• The ability to support a tolling system - pay for what you
use.
• Improved redundancy with storage providers using zoning to
keep data safe.
• Superior proximity connections – connecting to the storage
supplier nearest to you or that you deem most suitable.
• Easier transport of the data resulting from its aggregation.
• Possible future potential for direct Swift to Swift transfer of
large data, triggered by an SMTP based smart signal.

39. SOCIAL MEDIA – YOU CONTROL YOUR DATA
I control access MY DATA,
to my data! portable to any storage
provider I choose
OpenStack
Provider #1
SOCIAL MEDIA API
OpenStack
Provider #2
OpenStack
Provider #3

40. TO SUM UP
It’s OUR data, not THEIR data.
Lets build OpenStack to ensure we
can always own OUR data!
(with a nod to Geoff Huston)
@aptira
Thank you! http://aptira.com
cheers, Aptira.
is it really too early for beer? info@aptira.com
Tristan and Phil would like to thank Katrina, Kavit, Justin, Iain, Evan, Corrine, Tom F and Steven
M, Andy, Gab, Mark R, James W, John D, Stefano, Skeeve and of course all our wonderful members of the
Australian OpenStack User Group, for making this possible!