The document outlines Red Hat's leadership in open-source solutions, particularly focusing on OpenStack as a scalable framework for cloud infrastructure. It highlights Red Hat's enterprise-class OpenStack distribution, which is integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and emphasizes the need for cloud solutions due to evolving workloads and unstructured data. Additionally, it presents various customer success stories demonstrating OpenStack's applications in fields like biomedical research and network virtualization.

1. OpenStack: Use Cases & Success Stories
Rhys Oxenham
Field Product Manager, Red Hat

2. • Founded in 1993
• ~6300 employees in 54 offices worldwide
• Worlds largest and most successful open-source company
• Focussed on providing enterprise-class:
• Products & Solutions
• Support
• Professional Services
• Training
• Now, a lot more than just Linux!
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• OpenStack is made up of individual autonomous components
• All of which are designed to scale-out to accommodate throughput and availability
• OpenStack is considered more of a framework, that relies on drivers and plugins
• Largely written in Python and is heavily dependent on Linux
OpenStack

5. • Red Hat’s officially supported, enterprise-class, OpenStack distribution
• Built specifically for, and tightly integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Released every six months; two months after upstream availability
• Focus on:
• Code maturity, stability, and security
• 3rd party ecosystem of value-add components and certified platforms
• Extended lifecycle- two years for Havana, three years for Icehouse
• Enterprise-class support from the #1 corporate contributors
• Rich product documentation and reference architectures
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform

6. • Cloud is widely seen as the next-generation IT delivery model
• Agile & Flexible
• Utility-based on-demand consumption
• Self-service driving down administrative overhead and maintenance
• Public clouds are setting the benchmark of how IT could be delivered to users
• Not all organisations are ready for public cloud
• Applications are being written differently today-
• More tolerant of failure
• Making use of scale-out architecture
Why does the world need OpenStack?

7. • Our data is too large
• Volumes of data are being generated at unprecedented levels
• Most of this data is unstructured
• Service requests are too large
• More and more devices are coming online
• Tablets, phones, laptops, BYOD generation…
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• Crucially, applications weren’t written to cope with the demand!
• Traditional infrastructure capabilities are being exhausted
• Service uptime, QoS, KPI’s and SLA’s are slipping
Major issues with traditional infrastructure…

8. Workloads are evolving…
Traditional Workloads
• Typically each tier resides on a single machine
• Doesn’t tolerate any downtime
• Relies on underlying infrastructure for availability
• Applications scale-up, not out
Cloud-enabled Workloads
• Workload resides across multiple machines
• Applications built to tolerate failure
• Does not rely on underlying infrastructure
• Applications scale-out, not up

9. Whilst we see interest in many different areas, the “perfect fits” are as follows-
• A public cloud-like Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud platform
• Internal “Infrastructure on Demand” - private cloud
• Test and Development environments - e.g. sandbox
• Cloud service provider platform - reselling compute, network & storage
• Building a scale-out platform for cloud-enabled workloads
• Web-scale applications
• Academic or pharma workloads, e.g. genetic sequencing
• Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) platform
So, how is OpenStack being used?

10. Customer Success Stories

11. • Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
• Industry: Biomedical Research
• Type: On-premise private cloud for on-demand, self-service computing
• Use-case: Data processing of large sample sets for cancer research
• Midokura
• Industry: Network Virtualisation Vendor
• Type: On-premise private cloud for development and testing
• Use-case: Integrating their value-add tools and for testing scale, performance, and
stability, as well as diagnosing customer problems
Customer Success Stories

12. • National Computational Infrastructure (Australia National University)
• Industry: Weather Simulation
• Type: Internal scale-out platform for high-performance computing
• Use-case: High performance compute clusters with on-demand access for
processing weather data for simulation purposes
• University of Porto (Universidade do Porto)
• Industry: Academic Research
• Type: On-premise multi-site private cloud
• Use-case: Providing elastic Infrastructure-as-a-Service to researchers and students
Customer Success Stories

13. • A few anonymous public cloud stories
• Customers choosing OpenStack (Red Hat’s!) to build their public cloud offering
• Providing alternative to Amazon AWS
• Exploiting data locality laws and anti-US “spying”
• THE platform for Network Function Virtualisation (NFV)
• OpenStack is the perfect platform for hosting network/telco apps & services
• Alcatel Lucent (ALU) doing just this with Cloudband and is using Red Hat
• Plus many more currently non-public
Customer Success Stories

14. Thank you! Any questions?
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roxenham@redhat.com