The document discusses the future of cloud computing being open through multi-vendor interoperability. It notes the benefits of open solutions for both vendors and consumers in accelerating technology shifts at lower costs. Rackspace has benefited from adopting and leading open solutions like OpenStack, which allows building public and private clouds with common application programming interfaces (APIs).

1. THE FUTURE OF CLOUD
IS OPEN
John Engates June 12, 2012
CTO, Rackspace Hosting
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2. 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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4. SOCIAL

5. VIDEO, PHOTO, RICH MEDIA

6. OPEN SOURCE

7. BIG DATA

11. Mobility

12. BYOD
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14. 70’s – 80’s 90’s-2000’s 2010-beyond
Mainframe Era Client-Server Era Cloud Era

15. Yet 85% of computing is still
RISK!done
In private datacenters…
What’s holding us back?

16. Public Cloud
Private Cloud

17. BUT IT’Sit goes much deeper…
But GOES DEEPER THAN THAT…
APIs
Cloud
Resources
“…it’s the semantics of the resources in the cloud that matter,
not the syntax of the API.”
- Thorsten von Eicken, Rightscale

20. Public Cloud
Private Cloud

21. Public Cloud
Private Cloud

22. WHY OPEN?
Innovation
Choice
Lower Cost

23. THE POWER OF ECOSYSTEMS

24. A PATTERN OF ECOSYSTEM DRIVEN MARKETS
VISIONARY MASS CONSUMABLE OPEN

25. What is OpenStack?

26. 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 Nova
NetApp, Solidfire, and Nexenta
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

27. Users all over the world are deploying OpenStack

28. COLLABORATING WITH FACEBOOK - OPEN COMPUTE
Open Compute Too!

29. WE’RE BETTING OUR BUSINESS ON OPENSTACK
+
RACKSPACE - FANATICAL SUPPORT

30. JOIN US!
http://openstack.org

31. Thank You
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