1. Innovation with Less Risk
Cisco and Red Hat
OpenStack Solutions

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Agenda
Current Cloud Trends
Why Cisco and Red Hat for OpenStack?
OpenStack Use Cases
Solutions Overview
Summary and Next Steps

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Current Cloud Trend
“The true potential of cloud lies in an
organization’s ability to leverage this agile
delivery model to transform the business.”
- Rick Wright, KPMG
With 84% of senior IT professionals planning to
use it in their cloud deployments, OpenStack is
the cloud platform of choice.*
*IDG Connect, “OpenStack: The Platform of Choice for Cloud,” 2013.

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What Enterprises Need from OpenStack
Manageable lifecycle
Guaranteed interoperability
Simplified deployment
Enterprise-grade support
Predictable costs
Security and compliance
Freedom of choice
Leverage existing skillsets
Scalability and flexibility

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Why Red Hat for OpenStack
Trusted open
technology leader
Top OpenStack
contributor
Leading OpenStack
and Linux ecosystem
Red Hat makes OpenStack safe, secure,
and consumable for production-grade use

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Why Cisco for OpenStack?
Commitment to
OpenStack
Application policy-
driven infrastructure
Superior security,
reliability, and
scalability
Hybrid ready for
easy workload
mobility
Cisco innovation and network expertise help you build,
use, and connect OpenStack cloud environments

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Why Red Hat and Cisco for OpenStack
Red Hat and Cisco deliver the most complete enterprise-quality
OpenStack solutions on the market
• Early leaders in OpenStack development
• Customer-focused approach
• Tight integration through the entire stack
• Based on open and industry standards
• Largest combined certified partner
ecosystem

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Red Hat and Cisco OpenStack Platform
Certified partner ecosystem
Comprehensive expert services and support
Trusted technology partners and familiar infrastructure
End-to-end cloud solutions
Advanced innovation with less risk
Open technology commitment

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OpenStack Use Cases

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Cloud Storage
Cost-effective
Greater access
to data
Better data
control
By 2020, experts
expect enterprises to
create and manage
35 ZB
of data*
Cloud storage can extend your
existing traditional storage to meet
growing demands
+
*CSC, “Infographic: The Rapid Growth of Global Data,” 2012.

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Big Data Analytics
Dynamic
scalability
Lower big
data costs
Faster, fuller
insight
+ =
Big data Cloud Performance

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Hybrid Cloud Deployment
Reduce shadow
IT risks
Improve cloud
security
Streamline
management
Private cloud Public cloud
Hybrid cloud

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DevOps
Faster time
to market
Increased
agility
Increased
competitiveness
People Technology Process
+ +

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Platform-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service
Increased IT
efficiency
Faster IT
response times
Improved
productivity
IT as datacenter administrators IT as internal service providers
Flexible
infrastructure
Self-service
portals
Automation

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Solutions Overview

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Solution Components
Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure
Compute | Networking | Storage
Policydriveninfrastructure
CiscoACI
CiscoIntercloudFabric

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Cisco UCS for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform (UCSO)
Deploy a private cloud with high availability,
self-service, cloud connectivity, and application
management functionality
Fast, easy cloud
deployment
Increased return
on investment
Simplified cloud
operations

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform on FlexPod
Create a flexible, open, integrated foundation for
your production-grade cloud environment
Faster cloud
deployment
Simplified
management
Reduced
cloud risks

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
+ Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
Deliver on-demand cloud consumption with
policy-based automation and application mobility
Pay-as-you-go
cost structure
Improved security
and governance
Simple application
management

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Cisco Intercloud
Connect and unify public and/or private clouds into
an open hybrid cloud infrastructure
Faster service
delivery
Improved cloud
manageability
On-demand
business agility
Reduced cloud
costs

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Wrap Up

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Red Hat and Cisco Alliance
OpenStack Cisco ACI Intercloud
Red Hat and Cisco continue to collaborate on joint engineering
and product development projects for their customers’ benefit

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Summary
Red Hat and Cisco simplify your cloud journey with
innovative, proven, end-to-end OpenStack solutions.
Deploy a cloud you can trust, fast.

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Next Steps
Learn how Red Hat and Cisco OpenStack
solutions can help you deploy an
enterprise-grade cloud with less risk
www.redhat.com/en/partners/strategic-alliance/cisco
www.cisco.com/go/redhat

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Back Up

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Network functions virtualization
Better flexibility
and agility
Lower costs
Faster service
development
and launch
Legacy hardware-centric network
infrastructure
Cloud-based virtualized network
infrastructure
Network
function A
Network
function B
Network
function C
Cloud and NFV orchestration (OpenStack)
Cloud infrastructure
Virtualized network functions