“Systems of Record” maintain host processes
Serving Employees
Supported by ERP Packages & Large Databases
Recording Transactions as Part of Core Processes
Maintain State, Status & History
Long Development and Deployment Cycles
“Systems of Engagement” touch people
Serving Customers, Partners & Employees
Delivering Individual’s Personalized Context
Providing Analytics Driven Experiences
Focused on In the Moment Tasks & Decisions
Short, Rapid, Iterative Release Cycles
The ability to integrate existing systems of record, with new systems of engagement like mobile, cloud, and social will be critical to bridge the world we know today, with the rapid innovation and composability that is to come.
As we spoke of earlier, the business will want innovate more quickly, and drive unique competitive advantage through new systems of engagement such as cloud. In fact, we are already seeing applications moving aggressively to the cloud. IDC estimates that 85% of new applications will be delivered or deployed on cloud.
Meanwhile, IT must be able to quickly plug in 3rd party services to existing systems of record, securing not only the infrastructure, but the data, on and off premise, even when it’s being shared with new systems of engagement like mobile, social and the internet of things. All of this without disruption. Without compromising service level objectives.
This will only put greater pressure on IT to be more flexible and agile than ever. Yet today, 70 %+ of the corporate IT budgets still remain tied up in operations and maintenance. Somehow, IT must strike the right balance optimizing existing systems of record to free resources for investment in new systems of engagement, and in turn leveraging new innovations to drive further optimization and continuous innovation.
The ability to dynamically consume, interconnect and orchestrate all types of clouds and IT to speed innovation and adapt to changing business conditions
Supported by rich APIs for
on-prem & off-prem
Encapsulated expertise into patterns
Open, extensible hybrid model
•Predictable Performance – dedicated environment means no noisy neighbors contending for your resources
•Speed & Agility – scale up or down to meet workload demands, sold by the “drink” (ie node or volume)
•Security + Privacy – dedicated compute, storage and network provides physical separation from other clients
•Open Standards - no vendor lock-in, rapid innovation, availability of skills
•Portability – Reuse and transfer assets created to other OpenStack standard deployments
What is it?
A single-tenant private cloud with dedicated compute, storage, and networking infrastructure
OpenStack Icehouse cloud management system “as-a-service” hosted at SoftLayer and managed by IBM
Customers can purchase this offering on a monthly subscription basis
Enterprise Service Tier available today.
Features
Access to highly-available OpenStack management self-service web portal (Horizon) & APIs
OpenStack, hypervisor & below managed by IBM to enterprise standards and compliance
99.95% SLA on OpenStack and Customer Infrastructure
24x7 Customer Service – Phone,Tickets (20 minutes response times), Community Forums
High enterprise-level security standards for IBM managed infrastructure
Select from 3 compute hardware configurations – Balanced, Memory Optimized, or IO Optimized
Optional private Object Storage cloud service
Access to SoftLayer services –Global IPs, DNS, etc.
Hosted at SoftLayer’s worldwide data centers, which are SOC 2 Type 2 compliant
Setup within 72 hours of order being placed in SoftLayer’s data center
Secure
Dedicated infrastructure – not a shared environment
Enterprise-level security
Managed
Focus on core business, and not on infrastructure
24x7 customer service, support across multiple channels
Reliable
Highly available for both software and hardware infrastructure
Multi-data center support for Disaster Recovery
Flexible & Responsive
Customizable to meet your specific needs
Stand up in hours, not months
Open technology
Avoid vendor lockin by using proprietary solutions
Leverage vast number of existing tooling
Feature rich
Scalable
Infrastructure can grow as the business grows
Expand across data centers
Cost
Pay-per-use – subscription pricing model
No upfront capital investment
High performance
Support variety of workloads, including demanding ones like big data
Compliant
Infrastructure is compliant with industry standards and certifications
An open source cloud platform provides your business with flexibility, accelerated time-to-market, and interoperability between clouds. With standard APIs, workloads now become portable between your premise and cloud service providers.
As shown here, OpenStack has a modular architecture with multiple components and is designed to deliver a massively scalable cloud operating system. To achieve this, each of the constituent services are designed to work together to provide a complete infrastructure as a service (IaaS). This integration is facilitated through public application programming interfaces (APIs) that each service offers (and in turn can consume). While these APIs allow each of the services to use another service, it also allows an implementer to switch out any service as long as they maintain the API. These are (mostly) the same APIs that are available to end users of the cloud.
Let’s review the role of each component.
Horizon: The OpenStack dashboard, a web-based user interfacing to the rest of the OpenStack services
Nova: OpenStack compute—a cloud computing fabric controller designed to manage and automate pools of computer resources
Neutron: Cloud networking controller that provides networking as a service between interface devices managed by other OpenStack services
Cinder: Persistent block-level storage services for use with OpenStack compute instances; manages the creation, attaching and detaching of block devices to servers
Swift: Scalable, redundant storage system
Keystone: Identity service that provides a central directory of users mapped to the OpenStack services they can access
Glance: Image service that provides discovery, registration and delivery services for disk and server images
Heat: Implements an orchestration engine to launch multiple composite cloud applications based on templates in the form of text files that can be treated like code.
Ceilometer: Collects measurements for billing systems across all current OpenStack components
Scalable, security-rich multi-tenancy with up to 16,000 virtual networks
Multiple IP addresses per vNIC with IP aliasing
Attach multiple vNICs to a single VM
Ability to create and delete multiple virtual networks that span a single or multiple remote servers quickly
Activate and re-configure network services using Neutron API with access to layer 3 for automation
Create, configure and delete a subnet, routing tables, Network Address Translation with built-in gateway for configurable routing
Enable or disable inbound or outbound Internet access to specific virtual networks
IBM is one of the first in the industry to integrate OpenStack with software-defined networking and provide that as a turnkey service with our IBM Cloud OpenStack Services offering.
Our differentiating software-defined networking offers several advantages:
Enables you to create additional private networks within each project. (Multi-tiered customer network with address overlap)
In house team of network experts building SDN and network services
Provide customized features at increased velocity as required
Better CAPEX and OPEX than third-party software (NSX list 6K) or appliances
Strict physical and operational security controls in place at SoftLayer data centers
Add-on security services from IBM
Transparency from the network topology down to the hardware, giving you visibilityand control for improved compliance management
Compliance reports made available through the SoftLayer customer portal
Alignment with government and industry standards
IBM is committed to accelerating the success of the OpenStack foundation because interoperability in the Cloud is critical for flexible cloud deployments and ultimately customer success. As a member of the new Board of Directors, our goal is to help progress the platform, sustain a vibrant ecosystem, and position OpenStack as the IaaS platform of choice for cloud consumers and providers. We're contributing resources to the continued improvement of code stability and quality while driving interoperability and investment protection through implementation of Cloud standards such as the Linked Data and TOSCA.
OpenStack is important to IBM because we view OpenStack as enhancing our SmartCloud Foundation offerings by expanding support for different hypervisors at the IaaS Cloud layer. We envision adding value higher in the cloud management stack with workload optimization and deployment simplification integrated with OpenStack through cloud standards.
Sources:
https://www.openstack.org/
https://www.openstack.org/foundation/companies/
http://www.qyjohn.net/?m=201401
https://www.ohloh.net/p/openstack
IBM is a leading managed services provider, with more than 30 years of delivering IT managed services to enterprise clients around the world. Our services are based on best practices and time-tested processes and have helped relieve some of the burden from organizations’ IT staffs who have put their trust in IBM. As you can see by the results of a study that explored the value a set of clients gained from our infrastructure managed services, our clients have experienced real business value:
$6.5 million in user productivity
$641 thousand in IT staff productivity
$199 thousand in business productivity
$4.7 million in infrastructure cost reduction
Payback on investment in managed services in 5 ½ months
And a three-year return on investment of 224 percent