The document discusses preventing lock-in when using cloud services through the use of open standards. Open standards allow flexibility to choose between vendors and ensure interoperability. Without open standards, vendors have control and customers face issues changing providers. The document recommends insisting on open source, open standards, and open APIs to avoid lock-in and promote choice, productivity, agility, and cost control for customers.

1. Removing the G-Cloud lock in
Government ICT 2.0 - Seminar Session One
16th September 2014
Jeremy Brown – Head of Middleware UK&I, Red Hat
jeremy@redhat.com
@tenfourty

2. Lock-In?

3. A Historical Perspective on
Lock-In in IT

4. So, How to Prevent Lock-In?
1980’s: Standards!
1990’s: FOSS – Free Open Source Software

5. And then comes The Cloud
Cloud will be the ultimate lock-in
Back to the Future w lock-in

6. The Broken Way : without open standards
● The vendor defines the level playing field
●Direct Interoperability
●NDA, IPR
● 1:1 deals,
no openness
●Closed market
●No verification
possible by
third party

7. Open standards required!
Open Standards allow you the
flexibility to make the best choice
for your business

8. The Better Way : with open standards
 The Standard defines the level
playing field
 Open market
 1:n relation
 Implementations
can be verified
by third parties

9. What is an open standard?
A standard that is publicly available and has various rights to
use associated with it, and may also have various
properties of how it was designed (e.g. open process).
Benefits of open standards
● Application & platform independence
● Long-term access
● Architectural integrity
CHOICE!!!!

10. Discussion:
How is open source different from open
standards?

11. No Lock-In on where
- On-Premise, Hosted, Hybrid
● Cloud should provide flexibility in where
applications can run
● Hosted Cloud
● Needs Secure, Fine-grained, Multi-tenancy
● On-Premise Cloud
● Should run on choice of Hypervisors
● Hybrid-Cloud
● Leverage benefits of scale when needed
OpenStack
Amazon
vSphere
RedHat
Enterprise
Virtualization

12. No Lock-Out on Operational Model
● You have real-world restrictions that impact Cloud
● Governance, Compliance, Ent. Arch Standards, ITIL, Security, etc.
● Your Cloud must support different Models

13. Benefits of No Lock-In
o Productivity
• Let Developers work the way they want to work
o Agility
• Move and Scale applications to adapt to changing business conditions
o Survivability
• Minimize the impact of hosting providers
o Accountability
• Control Costs

14. Insist on Open
o Open Source
o Open Standards
o Open APIs

15. Open Hybrid Cloud
OPEN STANDARDS
Private Cloud
(Customer Datacenter)
Public Cloud
(Amazon, Rackspace, Google,
etc.)
Hybrid Cloud
Fact: All customer & service provider data centers have
HETEROGENOUS technology from MULTIPLE vendors

16. Open Platform
● Open Standards are essential for the success of the Open
Hybrid Cloud.
● Open Standards form the links between the Datacenter, Private
Cloud, and Public Cloud.
● Open Standards are the DNA of Red Hat and JBoss.
● Adopt Open Standards whenever possible.
● Create new technology and drive to standards when possible.

17. Recommendations for an open cloud
● (open) Standards for interoperability between all Key Reference Points
● Modular approach that offers fair competition, regardless of development
model and license
● Reusability is best when the interfaces are stable and the upstream
projects have proven to be sustainable
● Not all reference points can be standardised in this way
● Identify gaps, work with vendor/community ecosystem, move forward
● Identify Lock-In as risk on all Key Reference Points
● Closed APIs prohibit choice and Open Source participation
● Drive up cost
● Complicate interoperabilty

18. The UK Government already gets it...
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs

19. Though I prefer this headline!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/23/uk_government_officially_adopts_open_document_format/

20. YOUR MOTHER WAS RIGHT
IT'S BETTER TO SHARE

21. SO LETS DO THE SAME FOR
THE G-CLOUD

23. Goals of the Red Hat model
● Bring Open Source Software to the enterprise
● Catalyst of Open Source Communities
● Faster technology innovation
● Open Standards
● Better quality
● Better price/performance
● Alignment to customer needs