The OpenStack project started as a discussion about open source cloud computing software. It has grown into a thriving global community of over 1,500 participants from 100+ companies working to produce a free and open source cloud computing platform. Key components include compute, object storage, imaging, and networking services. OpenStack has seen rapid evolution and adoption, with over 40,000 downloads and real-world deployments by companies using it to build scalable clouds.

1. The Evolution of OpenStack Clouds
John Igoe
Executive Director
Cloud and Big Data Solutions

2. It started with a discussion about open
source software…
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3. Out of that, an initiative grew…
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4. And grew into a thriving community
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5. The Pieces of OpenStack
OpenStack Compute (Nova)
OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)
OpenStack Image Service (Glance)
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6. The Pieces of OpenStack
• Dashboard
• Identity Management
• Networking
• Load balancers
• Database
• Queueing
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7. Rapid Evolution
#5 Essex:
Advanced Cloud
(Target 4/12)
#4 Diablo:
Integration
(Sept 11)
#3 Cactus: •Advanced schedulers for Nova
•Advanced networking (Quantum)
Service Provider •@ milestone 2 (6 weeks
iterations)
(Apr 11) • Storage as-a-Service
#2 Bexar: • Networking as-a-Service
• Unified authentication
Enterprise (Feb 11) • Enhanced scheduling
• Scale for Service Provider • Multi-network interface
• Hypervisor agnostic • Multi-region support
• Live migration • Network isolation
• Multi-tenant accounting
• Image integrity checks
• Performance enhancements
• Scale for Enterprise clouds
• Objects of unlimited size
• Support for IPv6
• Glance image registry
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8. OpenStack is Real
• Real Investment
• Real Users
• Real Solutions
• Real Deployments
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9. Some Recent Stats
• Diablo has 12 major new features contributed by 8 different
companies worldwide
• 1,500 active participants from 100+ companies
• 17 countries represented at Design Summit
• User groups in China, Japan, Korea, Europe, Africa, North
America and South America
• 40,000+ downloads
• 1,700 visits a day to documentation
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10. • Massive scale-out capability
• Density for their infrastructure
• Operational excellence
SaaS provider of
• Manageable cost model
on-line research
• Purchased Dell’s OpenStack-
& collaboration Powered Cloud Solution
software because they . . .
– Believe in the OpenStack
community and the
technology
– Crowbar’s capabilities to
provision hardware
– Can add applications to their
platform
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11. • Migrating content delivery
platform to OpenStack
Media & • Incorporating the ability to
entertainment provision & manage the
environment
– Believe in the OpenStack
community and the
technology
– Crowbar’s capabilities to
provision hardware
– Ability to add applications to
their platform
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12. Boston Area OpenStack Users’ Group
• History
– Fidelity hosted the first event – large participation, even larger interest
– Dell hosted in Austin and had great reviews with demand for more
• Why
– Ongoing community of local experts
– Discuss best practices, tools, hurdles futures.. all the goodness
– MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, Tuffts, Brandeis… huge pool of talent
• How
– Rotating between 128 and Boston
– Aligned with Milestones? Regular Intervals?
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13. How You Can Participate
• Website: www.openstack.org
• Mailing Lists: http://lists.openstack.org
• Wiki: http://wiki.openstack.org
• Meetups: Openstack-Austin, Openstack-Boston…
http://openstack.org/community/
• Twitter: @openstack
• Dell
– www.Dell.com/OpenStack
– OpenStack@Dell.com
– Blogs
› www.RobHirschfeld.com (technical)
› www.JBGeorge.net (business)
› www.BartonGeorge.net (business)
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