Sand Hill Group conducted forty in-depth interviews and surveyed more than 500 IT executives and to obtain a clear picture of the cloud computing initiatives, strategies and best practices taking hold in enterprises today.
"Leaders in the Cloud" delivers unparalleled insight into customer perceptions of cloud computing, current and planned cloud initiatives, adoption drivers, business and technological benefits and challenges, strategies for deployment and best practices for success. The findings look closely at experiences with all types of cloud service models - SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS - and deployment models - public, private, community and hybrid clouds.
The Enterprise Digital Report delivers the research findings via first-hand CIO quotes and more than a dozen charts and figures, and six use cases of specific cloud projects. The study identifies a complete list of the business benefits associated with cloud computing, and presents "Take Action Now" implications for both enterprise customers and cloud vendors.
The Enterprise Digital Report includes an additional chapter on the unique market for federal government clouds, six additional cloud use cases and several additional pages of unedited customer comments about cloud computing. The license also includes a copy of the data file with quantitative findings from a survey of more than 500 IT executives about their cloud computing experiences.
2016 Cloud vs. On Premise Brand Leader Survey ReportIT Brand Pulse
This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data from the independent, non-sponsored survey covering six categories of brand leadership–Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation–for fourteen classes of Cloud Service and On-Premise Providers.
Complete survey data for each product category is available. Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and pricing.
Read the 2016 Cloud and On-Premise Brand Leader Survey Press Release: http://www.itbrandpulse.com/press-release/it-pros-vote-2016-cloud-and-on-premise-brand-leaders/
Compare Clouds: Aws vs Azure vs Google vs SoftLayerRightScale
Most enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy, but choosing the right cloud for a workload can be challenging. We’ll share a free tool to compare public cloud features and help you make the best decision for each workload. We’ll also drill down on a few key areas where the leading public clouds are different.
This 3 minute YouTube video provides an overview of the key events in the life of Martin Luther King Jr., including his role as a leader of the American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. It highlights Dr. King's message of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to end racial segregation and discrimination. The video concludes with footage of Dr. King's iconic "I Have a Dream" speech given during the 1963 March on Washington, where he advocated for racial equality and an end to prejudice.
OpenStack networking - Neutron deep dive with PLUMgridKamesh Pemmaraju
These are slides from the OpenSTack Meeting in Boston on Marck 18, 2015. The session led by Fernando Sanchez - Principal Systems Engineer, at PLUMgrid. In this talk, Fernando discussed OpenStack architecture with a particular focus on networking. We’ll cover some important considerations for networking in your OpenStack cloud, provide a look at common terminology, and discuss how Open Networking Suite works with OpenStack to alleviate networking challenges.
Unlock the potential to have express cloud deployments with Mirantis OpenStack and Cumulus Linux
Are you building a new private cloud or moving your workloads to a hybrid cloud in 2015? Or, are you just interested in exploring what OpenStack has to offer but don't have all the resources and toolsets to understand the gaps. Wonder if the networking infrastructure is a bottleneck as a cloud architect? If you have these lingering questions, check out these slides from this joint MIrantis CUmulus webinar to get a better perspective on how the modern data center architecture deployments can be designed with flexible Open Networking and the benefits of Openstack from Mirantis.
A well-architected cloud provides a stable IT environment that offers easy access to needed resources, usage-based expenses, extra capacity on demand, disaster recovery, and a secure environment, but a well-architected cloud does not magically build itself. It requires careful consideration of a multitude of factors, both technical and non-technical. There is no single architecture that is "right" for an OpenStack cloud deployment. OpenStack can be used for any number of different purposes, and each of them has its own particular requirements and architectural peculiarities. The use cases covered in this talk include:
• General purpose: A cloud built with common components that should address 80% of common use cases.
• Compute focused: A cloud designed to address compute intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC).
• Storage focused: A cloud focused on storage intensive workloads such as data
analytics with parallel file systems.
• Network focused: A cloud depending on high performance and reliable networking, such as a content delivery network (CDN).
The key areas of discussion focus on the following:
• What is available for integration within OpenStack as of the IceHouse release.
• Recent updates for Windows Technologies in Nova, Cinder, and Neutron projects
• An overview of the Hyper-V CI process including sneak peeks into upcoming infrastructure changes for Juno/K Releases
• Technology additions to support Windows within the OpenStack ecosystem.
• Summit Debrief and Juno Planning Outlined.
New Ceph capabilities and Reference ArchitecturesKamesh Pemmaraju
Have you heard about Inktank Ceph and are interested to learn some tips and tricks for getting started quickly and efficiently with Ceph? Then this is the session for you!
In this two part session you learn details of:
• the very latest enhancements and capabilities delivered in Inktank Ceph Enterprise such as a new erasure coded storage back-end, support for tiering, and the introduction of user quotas.
• best practices, lessons learned and architecture considerations founded in real customer deployments of Dell and Inktank Ceph solutions that will help accelerate your Ceph deployment.
2016 Cloud vs. On Premise Brand Leader Survey ReportIT Brand Pulse
This IT Brand Pulse mini-report includes only market leader data from the independent, non-sponsored survey covering six categories of brand leadership–Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation–for fourteen classes of Cloud Service and On-Premise Providers.
Complete survey data for each product category is available. Please contact us at info@itbrandpulse.com for information and pricing.
Read the 2016 Cloud and On-Premise Brand Leader Survey Press Release: http://www.itbrandpulse.com/press-release/it-pros-vote-2016-cloud-and-on-premise-brand-leaders/
Compare Clouds: Aws vs Azure vs Google vs SoftLayerRightScale
Most enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy, but choosing the right cloud for a workload can be challenging. We’ll share a free tool to compare public cloud features and help you make the best decision for each workload. We’ll also drill down on a few key areas where the leading public clouds are different.
This 3 minute YouTube video provides an overview of the key events in the life of Martin Luther King Jr., including his role as a leader of the American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. It highlights Dr. King's message of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to end racial segregation and discrimination. The video concludes with footage of Dr. King's iconic "I Have a Dream" speech given during the 1963 March on Washington, where he advocated for racial equality and an end to prejudice.
OpenStack networking - Neutron deep dive with PLUMgridKamesh Pemmaraju
These are slides from the OpenSTack Meeting in Boston on Marck 18, 2015. The session led by Fernando Sanchez - Principal Systems Engineer, at PLUMgrid. In this talk, Fernando discussed OpenStack architecture with a particular focus on networking. We’ll cover some important considerations for networking in your OpenStack cloud, provide a look at common terminology, and discuss how Open Networking Suite works with OpenStack to alleviate networking challenges.
Unlock the potential to have express cloud deployments with Mirantis OpenStack and Cumulus Linux
Are you building a new private cloud or moving your workloads to a hybrid cloud in 2015? Or, are you just interested in exploring what OpenStack has to offer but don't have all the resources and toolsets to understand the gaps. Wonder if the networking infrastructure is a bottleneck as a cloud architect? If you have these lingering questions, check out these slides from this joint MIrantis CUmulus webinar to get a better perspective on how the modern data center architecture deployments can be designed with flexible Open Networking and the benefits of Openstack from Mirantis.
A well-architected cloud provides a stable IT environment that offers easy access to needed resources, usage-based expenses, extra capacity on demand, disaster recovery, and a secure environment, but a well-architected cloud does not magically build itself. It requires careful consideration of a multitude of factors, both technical and non-technical. There is no single architecture that is "right" for an OpenStack cloud deployment. OpenStack can be used for any number of different purposes, and each of them has its own particular requirements and architectural peculiarities. The use cases covered in this talk include:
• General purpose: A cloud built with common components that should address 80% of common use cases.
• Compute focused: A cloud designed to address compute intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC).
• Storage focused: A cloud focused on storage intensive workloads such as data
analytics with parallel file systems.
• Network focused: A cloud depending on high performance and reliable networking, such as a content delivery network (CDN).
The key areas of discussion focus on the following:
• What is available for integration within OpenStack as of the IceHouse release.
• Recent updates for Windows Technologies in Nova, Cinder, and Neutron projects
• An overview of the Hyper-V CI process including sneak peeks into upcoming infrastructure changes for Juno/K Releases
• Technology additions to support Windows within the OpenStack ecosystem.
• Summit Debrief and Juno Planning Outlined.
New Ceph capabilities and Reference ArchitecturesKamesh Pemmaraju
Have you heard about Inktank Ceph and are interested to learn some tips and tricks for getting started quickly and efficiently with Ceph? Then this is the session for you!
In this two part session you learn details of:
• the very latest enhancements and capabilities delivered in Inktank Ceph Enterprise such as a new erasure coded storage back-end, support for tiering, and the introduction of user quotas.
• best practices, lessons learned and architecture considerations founded in real customer deployments of Dell and Inktank Ceph solutions that will help accelerate your Ceph deployment.
OpenStack and Ceph case study at the University of AlabamaKamesh Pemmaraju
The University of Alabama at Birmingham gives scientists and researchers a massive, on-demand, virtual storage cloud using OpenStack and Ceph for less than $0.41 per gigabyte. This is a session at the OpenStack summit given by Kamesh Pemmaraju at Dell and John Paul at University of Alabama. This will detail how the university IT staff deployed a private storage cloud infrastructure using the Dell OpenStack cloud solution with Dell servers, storage, networking and OpenStack, and Inktank Ceph. After assessing a number of traditional storage scenarios, the University partnered with Dell and Inktank to architect a centralized cloud storage platform that was capable of scaling seamlessly and rapidly, was cost-effective, and that could leverage a single hardware infrastructure for the OpenStack compute and storage environment.
The primary requirements for OpenStack based clouds (public, private or hybrid) is that they must be massively scalable and highly available. There are a number of interrelated concepts which make the understanding and implementation of HA complex. The potential for not implementing HA correctly would be disastrous.
This session was presented at the OpenStack Meetup in Boston Feb 2014. We discussed interrelated concepts as a basis for implementing HA and examples of HA for MySQL, Rabbit MQ and the OpenStack APIs primarily using Keepalived, VRRP and HAProxy which will reinforce the concepts and show how to connect the dots.
Do you think that Nova, Cinder, Heat, Ceilometer, and Neutron are all references to global warming and looming apocalypse? For all those who come to the OpenStack community and wonder what all the fuss is about, this quick introduction will answer your many questions. It includes a short history of the largest Open Source project in history and will touch on
the basic OpenStack components, so you will be prepared the next time someone mentions Keystone, Nova and Swift in the same sentence.
This session was presented by Beth Cohen at the OpenStack meetup on Feb 19th, 2014 in Boston. Beth works for Verizon developing cool Cloud based products that she can't talk about without a strict NDA. She is a technical leader with over 25 years of experience architecting leading-edge system infrastructures and managing complex projects in the telecom, manufacturing, financial services, government, and technology industries. She has been involved in building some of the world's largest OpenStack architectures and has way too much fun at OpenStack Summits!
Dell openstack cloud with inktank ceph – large scale customer deploymentKamesh Pemmaraju
This was my presentation at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong, November 2013. Learn detail around a unique deployment of the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution with Inktank Ceph installed at a large nationally recognized American University that specializes in cancer and genomic research. The University had a need to provide a scalable, secure, centralized data repository to support approximately 900 researchers and an ever-expanding number of research projects and rapidly expanding universe of data. The Dell and Inktank cloud storage solution addresses these storage challenges with an open source solution that leverages the Dell Crowbar Framework and Reference Architecture. After assessing a number of traditional storage scenarios, the University partnered with Dell and Inktank to architect a centralized cloud storage platform that is capable of scaling seamlessly and rapidly, is cost-effective, and that can leverage a single hardware infrastructure, with Dell Power Edge R-720XD servers and the Dell Reference Architecture for their OpenStack compute and storage environment.
The Havana release of OpenStack, came out in October 2013, contains several significant changes and new features in the networking component. OpenStack Networking has changed name from 'quantum' to 'neutron'. It lays the foundation for supporting heterogeneous network components with the introduction of the ML2 (modular layer 2) plugin. The first implementations of FireWall as a Service (FWaaS) and VPN as a Service (VPNaaS) are now included. These features were demonstrated by Cisco developers at the OpenStack meetup in Boston in Oct 2013.
This talk was given at the Boston OPenStack meetup to introduce Postgres Plus Cloud Database. This is a product that has built a convenient cloud infrastructure around PostgreSQL. If offers quick provision, autoscaling thresholds and both vertical and horizontal scaling abilities. This product was initially introduced on AWS but has recently been ported to OpenStack. We will talk about the issue faced in going between these two platforms and how one can maintain a truly cloud centric product that runs on multiple IaaS platforms.
This presentation was part of the OpenStack Boston Meetup on Oct 23th, 2013. OpenStack is being proposed as a platform for the Massachusetts Open Cloud. The Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) will be a public cloud based on a new model that allows many companies and institutions to participate in its implementation and operation. It will provide services ranging from what is termed Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), the provisioning of basic computation in the form of virtual machines, up through higher layers such as application and Big Data platforms and services. A central focus of the MOC will be its use for solving problems that require analysis of massive data sets such as those targeted by the Commonwealth’s Big Data Initiative, taking advantage not only of services offered by the MOC but the ability to efficiently exchange large volumes of data between MOC users.
Unlike existing proprietary public clouds, where all of the technology is controlled by a single entity, the MOC will operate as a marketplace in which hardware capacity, software and services can be flexibly supplied, purchased, and resold by many participants.
Dell and SUSE have collaborated to bring to our customers an enterprise ready open source private cloud solution with many advanced capabilities. This is the slide set from a recent Webinar where Dell and Suse presented an overview of this cloud solution. The main features of this solution include:
Automated install process using Crowbar
Rapid setup and configuration of cloud environment
Easy expansion of cloud environment
Multi-hypervisor support (KVM, Xen, Hyper-V and VMware)
Application and hardware certifications
Integrated into existing SUSE product lifecycle processes
24x7, worldwide technical support
Architected for unlimited growth
Open APIs for integration with third-party software
OpenStack, Containers, and Docker: The Future of Application Deployment
Twenty years ago, developers built static applications on well-defined stacks that ran on proprietary, monolithic hardware. Developers today want freedom to build applications using their choice of services and stacks and, ideally, want to be able to run those applications on any available hardware. Of course, this raises questions about service interaction, the practicality of migrating applications across environments, and the challenges of managing unlimited combinations of services and hardware environment.
By promoting an opensource approach to flexible and inter-operable infrastructure, OpenStack goes a long way towards achieving this vision of the future. This talk discusses the application and platform side of the equation, and the interplay between OpenStack, Container technology (e.g. LXC), and the opensource Docker.io project. Docker.io enables any application and its dependencies to be deployed as lightweight containers that run consistently virtually anywhere. The same containerized application that runs on a developer's laptop can run consistently on a bare metal server, an OpenStack cluster, a Rackspace cloud, a VM,etc. While providing isolation and compatibility, containers have significant size, performance, and deployment advantages over traditional VMs.
Recently, the community created an integration between Docker and OpenStack Nova, opening up exciting possibilities for web scale application deployment, continuous integration and deployment, private PaaS, and hybrid cloud. This session will give an introduction to Docker and containers in the context of OpenStack, and will then demonstrate cross-environment deployment of applications.
There have been heaping piles of buzz surrounding Ceph and OpenStack lately. Similar amounts of work have been going in to the integration between Ceph and OpenStack in recent versions. We'll take a look at how this work is making all the awesomeness of Ceph available to users in a simple, intuitive, and powerful way. The world of Havana and beyond is certainly no different, and promises to continue the trend of both functionality and buzz-worthiness.
This talk given at the OpenStack meetup in Boston (Aug 14, 2013) gives a brief introduction to Ceph for the uninitiated and take a look at what's coming down the road. The short term of Havana has plenty to keep fans of both platforms happy and busy, but there are plenty more interesting problems that we can tackle. In addition to the concrete of the short term we'll take a look at how less-oft-used pieces of the Ceph platform can help augment your OpenStack setup, some general blue sky thinking, and what the community can do to get involved.
The Cloud Operating System powered by OPenStack is increasingly helping businesses to innovate, stay ahead of the competition, and differentiate based on unique expertise. This presentation provides an overview of the business challenges faced by IT departments and service providers and why and how they are looking at OpenStack and open source options to solve these issues. The presentation also covers how Dell is involved in OpenStack community and how it is helping customers succeed with OpenStack with its comprehensive end-to-end solutions powered by OpenStack at its core.
Do you think of cheetahs not RabbitMQ when you hear the word Swift? Think a Nova is just a giant exploding star, not a cloud compute engine. This deck (presented at the OpenStack Boston meetup) provides introduction will answer your many questions. It covers the basic components including: Nova, Swift, Cinder, Keystone, Horizon and Glance.
The document discusses software defined networking (SDN) and provides an overview of key concepts:
- SDN decouples network control and forwarding functions to allow for direct programmability of the network, enabling greater automation, flexibility, and cost reduction.
- Project OpenDaylight is an open source SDN framework supported by many industry players to further SDN adoption and innovation.
- Dell takes an unbiased approach to SDN, providing solutions that support legacy networks, virtualized environments, and open standards like OpenFlow to simplify network management across hybrid infrastructures.
Tempest is an Openstack test suite which runs against all the OpenStack service endpoints. It makes sure that all the OpenStack components work together properly and that no APIs are changed. Tempest is a "gate" for all commits to OpenStack repositories and will prevent merges if tests fail.
This was co-presented at the OpenStack Summit 2013 in Portland by Kamesh Pemmaraju, Product Manager from Dell and Neil Levine Inktank.
Inktank Ceph is a transformational open source storage solution fully integrated into OpenStack providing scalable object and block storage (via Cinder) using commodity servers. The Ceph solution is resilient to failures, uses storage efficiently, and performs well under a variety of VM Workloads.
Dell Crowbar is an open source software framework that can automatically deploy Ceph and OpenStack on bare metal servers in a matter of hours. The Ceph team worked with Dell to create a Ceph barclamp (a crowbar extention) that integrates Glance, Cinder, and Nova-Volume. As a result, it is lot faster and easier to install, configure, and manage a sizable OpenStack and Ceph cluster that is tightly integrated and cost- optimized.
Hear how OpenStack users can address their storage deployment challenges:
Considerations when selecting a cloud storage system
Overview of the Ceph architecture with unique features and benefits
Overview of Dell Crowbar and how it can automate and simplify Ceph/OpenStack deployments Best practices in deploying cloud storage with Ceph and OpenStack
With the Grizzly release of OpenStack comes many new features for Hyper-V and Windows platforms.
This was the work that was done for the Grizzly the release, and get an early preview before the Havana Summit in Portland.
Come and see Grizzly running on Hyper-V and supporting new features such as:
Quantum
Quantum Agent for Hyper-V
VLAN and Routing Support
Cinder
Windows as a Storage Server
Nova
Resize/Cold Migration
HTML5 Canvas/RDP Gateway
Cloudinit functionality for Windows guests.
The document discusses making API requests to Rackspace Cloud services using Python. It covers authenticating via OAuth to get a token, finding endpoints in the service catalog, and making a request to get a list of servers using the Python urllib2 library. Code examples are provided covering authentication, parsing the response, finding the right endpoint, and constructing the request.
Dell and Morphlabs provide OpenStack cloud solutions. Dell's strategy is to disrupt the competitive marketplace with open source solutions and be a top provider. It delivers private and public OpenStack solutions with unique Dell software like Crowbar. Morphlabs' mCloud Helix is a pre-integrated private cloud solution in a single chassis targeted at SMBs, with no customization needed. It provides a complete cloud with compute and storage resources in a small footprint optimized for price-performance. Dell and Morphlabs collaborate to expand OpenStack solutions across markets.
Canonical established Ubuntu in 2004 and released the long-term support version 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" in April 2012. Ubuntu is positioned as the leading Linux operating system for servers, clouds, and service orchestration. Canonical's Juju service orchestration tool allows easy deployment and management of services on Ubuntu through reusable "charms" that encapsulate best practices.
The document summarizes a presentation about the Keystone identity management service in Openstack. The presentation covered an overview of Keystone, its code layout and domain model, how it uses tokens for authentication and authorization, supported backends for persistence, and upcoming features like API version 3 and expanded support for domains, policies, and PKI signed tokens. The presentation concluded with links to more information on Keystone and its roadmap.
OpenStack and Ceph case study at the University of AlabamaKamesh Pemmaraju
The University of Alabama at Birmingham gives scientists and researchers a massive, on-demand, virtual storage cloud using OpenStack and Ceph for less than $0.41 per gigabyte. This is a session at the OpenStack summit given by Kamesh Pemmaraju at Dell and John Paul at University of Alabama. This will detail how the university IT staff deployed a private storage cloud infrastructure using the Dell OpenStack cloud solution with Dell servers, storage, networking and OpenStack, and Inktank Ceph. After assessing a number of traditional storage scenarios, the University partnered with Dell and Inktank to architect a centralized cloud storage platform that was capable of scaling seamlessly and rapidly, was cost-effective, and that could leverage a single hardware infrastructure for the OpenStack compute and storage environment.
The primary requirements for OpenStack based clouds (public, private or hybrid) is that they must be massively scalable and highly available. There are a number of interrelated concepts which make the understanding and implementation of HA complex. The potential for not implementing HA correctly would be disastrous.
This session was presented at the OpenStack Meetup in Boston Feb 2014. We discussed interrelated concepts as a basis for implementing HA and examples of HA for MySQL, Rabbit MQ and the OpenStack APIs primarily using Keepalived, VRRP and HAProxy which will reinforce the concepts and show how to connect the dots.
Do you think that Nova, Cinder, Heat, Ceilometer, and Neutron are all references to global warming and looming apocalypse? For all those who come to the OpenStack community and wonder what all the fuss is about, this quick introduction will answer your many questions. It includes a short history of the largest Open Source project in history and will touch on
the basic OpenStack components, so you will be prepared the next time someone mentions Keystone, Nova and Swift in the same sentence.
This session was presented by Beth Cohen at the OpenStack meetup on Feb 19th, 2014 in Boston. Beth works for Verizon developing cool Cloud based products that she can't talk about without a strict NDA. She is a technical leader with over 25 years of experience architecting leading-edge system infrastructures and managing complex projects in the telecom, manufacturing, financial services, government, and technology industries. She has been involved in building some of the world's largest OpenStack architectures and has way too much fun at OpenStack Summits!
Dell openstack cloud with inktank ceph – large scale customer deploymentKamesh Pemmaraju
This was my presentation at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong, November 2013. Learn detail around a unique deployment of the Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution with Inktank Ceph installed at a large nationally recognized American University that specializes in cancer and genomic research. The University had a need to provide a scalable, secure, centralized data repository to support approximately 900 researchers and an ever-expanding number of research projects and rapidly expanding universe of data. The Dell and Inktank cloud storage solution addresses these storage challenges with an open source solution that leverages the Dell Crowbar Framework and Reference Architecture. After assessing a number of traditional storage scenarios, the University partnered with Dell and Inktank to architect a centralized cloud storage platform that is capable of scaling seamlessly and rapidly, is cost-effective, and that can leverage a single hardware infrastructure, with Dell Power Edge R-720XD servers and the Dell Reference Architecture for their OpenStack compute and storage environment.
The Havana release of OpenStack, came out in October 2013, contains several significant changes and new features in the networking component. OpenStack Networking has changed name from 'quantum' to 'neutron'. It lays the foundation for supporting heterogeneous network components with the introduction of the ML2 (modular layer 2) plugin. The first implementations of FireWall as a Service (FWaaS) and VPN as a Service (VPNaaS) are now included. These features were demonstrated by Cisco developers at the OpenStack meetup in Boston in Oct 2013.
This talk was given at the Boston OPenStack meetup to introduce Postgres Plus Cloud Database. This is a product that has built a convenient cloud infrastructure around PostgreSQL. If offers quick provision, autoscaling thresholds and both vertical and horizontal scaling abilities. This product was initially introduced on AWS but has recently been ported to OpenStack. We will talk about the issue faced in going between these two platforms and how one can maintain a truly cloud centric product that runs on multiple IaaS platforms.
This presentation was part of the OpenStack Boston Meetup on Oct 23th, 2013. OpenStack is being proposed as a platform for the Massachusetts Open Cloud. The Massachusetts Open Cloud (MOC) will be a public cloud based on a new model that allows many companies and institutions to participate in its implementation and operation. It will provide services ranging from what is termed Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), the provisioning of basic computation in the form of virtual machines, up through higher layers such as application and Big Data platforms and services. A central focus of the MOC will be its use for solving problems that require analysis of massive data sets such as those targeted by the Commonwealth’s Big Data Initiative, taking advantage not only of services offered by the MOC but the ability to efficiently exchange large volumes of data between MOC users.
Unlike existing proprietary public clouds, where all of the technology is controlled by a single entity, the MOC will operate as a marketplace in which hardware capacity, software and services can be flexibly supplied, purchased, and resold by many participants.
Dell and SUSE have collaborated to bring to our customers an enterprise ready open source private cloud solution with many advanced capabilities. This is the slide set from a recent Webinar where Dell and Suse presented an overview of this cloud solution. The main features of this solution include:
Automated install process using Crowbar
Rapid setup and configuration of cloud environment
Easy expansion of cloud environment
Multi-hypervisor support (KVM, Xen, Hyper-V and VMware)
Application and hardware certifications
Integrated into existing SUSE product lifecycle processes
24x7, worldwide technical support
Architected for unlimited growth
Open APIs for integration with third-party software
OpenStack, Containers, and Docker: The Future of Application Deployment
Twenty years ago, developers built static applications on well-defined stacks that ran on proprietary, monolithic hardware. Developers today want freedom to build applications using their choice of services and stacks and, ideally, want to be able to run those applications on any available hardware. Of course, this raises questions about service interaction, the practicality of migrating applications across environments, and the challenges of managing unlimited combinations of services and hardware environment.
By promoting an opensource approach to flexible and inter-operable infrastructure, OpenStack goes a long way towards achieving this vision of the future. This talk discusses the application and platform side of the equation, and the interplay between OpenStack, Container technology (e.g. LXC), and the opensource Docker.io project. Docker.io enables any application and its dependencies to be deployed as lightweight containers that run consistently virtually anywhere. The same containerized application that runs on a developer's laptop can run consistently on a bare metal server, an OpenStack cluster, a Rackspace cloud, a VM,etc. While providing isolation and compatibility, containers have significant size, performance, and deployment advantages over traditional VMs.
Recently, the community created an integration between Docker and OpenStack Nova, opening up exciting possibilities for web scale application deployment, continuous integration and deployment, private PaaS, and hybrid cloud. This session will give an introduction to Docker and containers in the context of OpenStack, and will then demonstrate cross-environment deployment of applications.
There have been heaping piles of buzz surrounding Ceph and OpenStack lately. Similar amounts of work have been going in to the integration between Ceph and OpenStack in recent versions. We'll take a look at how this work is making all the awesomeness of Ceph available to users in a simple, intuitive, and powerful way. The world of Havana and beyond is certainly no different, and promises to continue the trend of both functionality and buzz-worthiness.
This talk given at the OpenStack meetup in Boston (Aug 14, 2013) gives a brief introduction to Ceph for the uninitiated and take a look at what's coming down the road. The short term of Havana has plenty to keep fans of both platforms happy and busy, but there are plenty more interesting problems that we can tackle. In addition to the concrete of the short term we'll take a look at how less-oft-used pieces of the Ceph platform can help augment your OpenStack setup, some general blue sky thinking, and what the community can do to get involved.
The Cloud Operating System powered by OPenStack is increasingly helping businesses to innovate, stay ahead of the competition, and differentiate based on unique expertise. This presentation provides an overview of the business challenges faced by IT departments and service providers and why and how they are looking at OpenStack and open source options to solve these issues. The presentation also covers how Dell is involved in OpenStack community and how it is helping customers succeed with OpenStack with its comprehensive end-to-end solutions powered by OpenStack at its core.
Do you think of cheetahs not RabbitMQ when you hear the word Swift? Think a Nova is just a giant exploding star, not a cloud compute engine. This deck (presented at the OpenStack Boston meetup) provides introduction will answer your many questions. It covers the basic components including: Nova, Swift, Cinder, Keystone, Horizon and Glance.
The document discusses software defined networking (SDN) and provides an overview of key concepts:
- SDN decouples network control and forwarding functions to allow for direct programmability of the network, enabling greater automation, flexibility, and cost reduction.
- Project OpenDaylight is an open source SDN framework supported by many industry players to further SDN adoption and innovation.
- Dell takes an unbiased approach to SDN, providing solutions that support legacy networks, virtualized environments, and open standards like OpenFlow to simplify network management across hybrid infrastructures.
Tempest is an Openstack test suite which runs against all the OpenStack service endpoints. It makes sure that all the OpenStack components work together properly and that no APIs are changed. Tempest is a "gate" for all commits to OpenStack repositories and will prevent merges if tests fail.
This was co-presented at the OpenStack Summit 2013 in Portland by Kamesh Pemmaraju, Product Manager from Dell and Neil Levine Inktank.
Inktank Ceph is a transformational open source storage solution fully integrated into OpenStack providing scalable object and block storage (via Cinder) using commodity servers. The Ceph solution is resilient to failures, uses storage efficiently, and performs well under a variety of VM Workloads.
Dell Crowbar is an open source software framework that can automatically deploy Ceph and OpenStack on bare metal servers in a matter of hours. The Ceph team worked with Dell to create a Ceph barclamp (a crowbar extention) that integrates Glance, Cinder, and Nova-Volume. As a result, it is lot faster and easier to install, configure, and manage a sizable OpenStack and Ceph cluster that is tightly integrated and cost- optimized.
Hear how OpenStack users can address their storage deployment challenges:
Considerations when selecting a cloud storage system
Overview of the Ceph architecture with unique features and benefits
Overview of Dell Crowbar and how it can automate and simplify Ceph/OpenStack deployments Best practices in deploying cloud storage with Ceph and OpenStack
With the Grizzly release of OpenStack comes many new features for Hyper-V and Windows platforms.
This was the work that was done for the Grizzly the release, and get an early preview before the Havana Summit in Portland.
Come and see Grizzly running on Hyper-V and supporting new features such as:
Quantum
Quantum Agent for Hyper-V
VLAN and Routing Support
Cinder
Windows as a Storage Server
Nova
Resize/Cold Migration
HTML5 Canvas/RDP Gateway
Cloudinit functionality for Windows guests.
The document discusses making API requests to Rackspace Cloud services using Python. It covers authenticating via OAuth to get a token, finding endpoints in the service catalog, and making a request to get a list of servers using the Python urllib2 library. Code examples are provided covering authentication, parsing the response, finding the right endpoint, and constructing the request.
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1. Leaders In The Cloud
Identifying the Business Value of Cloud Computing
for Customers and Vendors
2. About Sand Hill Group
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3. About the authors
M.R. Rangaswami, Sand Hill Group, LLC, co-founder
• Held Global VP Marketing positions at Oracle and Baan
• Strategic advisor to fast growth companies
• Profiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal
• Named to Forbes “Midas 100” list as one of the most
influential investors in technolog
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4. About the authors
Kamesh Pemmaraju. Leading Cloud Research at Sand Hill Group
• Held Global VP Engineering/Director Quality at Pegasystems, Solidworks,
Apani Networks
• Brought to market leading technology products in Enterprise BPM,
3D-CAD systems, Enterprise Security, High Transaction Websites,
and Embedded Real-time
• Consulted at GE, GM, Siemens, Sun, Visa International, NASD,
4 Motorola on technology, security, and quality issues
5. Industry-leading advisory board
Tony Redshaw, CIO
Daru Darukhwala, CTO
JP Rangaswami, Chief Scientist
James Barrese, VP Systems and Architecture
Michael Abbot, SVP Applications Software and Service
Gary S, Washington, Office of OMB
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6. Survey of 511 IT execs with McKinsey and TechWeb
Title/Position Percent of Respondents
Board Member/CEO 14%
CIO/CTO 13%
Other C-level executive 6%
Senior IT executive 18%
Other senior executive 10%
IT manager 7%
Other manager 6%
Staff 6%
Consultant 15%
Other 5%
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7. 40 confidential interviews with cloud leaders
Sector Companies Executives
Healthcare 1 1
Insurance and Financial Services 3 4
Publishing and Media 3 3
Telecom 1 2
Federal Government 3 6
Technology 4 4
Business and Software Services 3 3
Software Vendors 8 8
Electronics 1 1
Manufacturing 2 2
Energy 1 6
Total 30 40
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8. Cloud Feels Like 1997 for the Internet
High
2010
2000
Cloud
1990 Network Computing
Computing
Client/Server
Complexity
1970 Computing
Mainframes
with
1960 terminals
Single Back to mainframes?
Computer
Low
Centralized Time Distributed
9. NIST Definition Well Accepted
Hybrid Clouds
Deployment
Models Private Community
Public Cloud
Cloud Cloud
Service Software as a Platform as a Infrastructure as a
Models Service (SaaS) Service (PaaS) Service (IaaS)
On Demand Self-Service
Essential
Broad Network Access Rapid Elasticity
Characteristics
Resource Pooling Measured Service
Massive Scale Resilient Computing
Common Homogeneity Geographic Distribution
Characteristics Virtualization Service Orientation
Low Cost Software Advanced Security
Source: NIST
10. But Controversies Abound….
Is private cloud a cloud?
Is virtualization a cloud
initiative?
Is SaaS app a cloud app?
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11. Cloud Reality is Catching The Hype
Some SMB’s have 80% of services in the cloud
Watching and Learning 53%
Implementing Pilot projects for Experimenting… 52%
Implementing and deploying non-critical… 33%
Deploying mission-critical applications 18%
No plans 3%
Don’t know 2%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
“Compared to what we were doing before, the cloud is a
giant bed of roses.” – CIO, business services company
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12. Agility: #1 driver for the move to the cloud
Business agility 49%
Cost efficiency 46%
Leverage core competencies and free IT… 22%
Disaster recovery and business continuity 13%
Part of a Green initiative 3%
Don’t know 1%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
“We were halfway through the project and the business decided
to dramatically change the requirements of the system. We were
able to respond much more quickly than the original on-premise
team would have delivered.” – CIO Business Services Company
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13. Which cloud models are winning and why?
80%
70% Currently
70%
In 3 Years
60% 56%
50%
40%
30%
24%
18% 20%
20%
12%
10%
0%
SaaS IaaS PaaS
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14. CIO perspective on various cloud types
60%
54% Currently
50%
44% in 3 Years
43%
40% 36%
35%
30% 28%
20%
20%
13%
10%
0%
Private Public Community Hybrid
“I don’t think [the public/private cloud issue]
is really an ‘either/or’ question. It’s a combination.”
– CIO, software company
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15. Cloud investments expected to increase
Today In Three Years
3% 7% - 30%
IT Budget spend on Cloud IT Budget expected spend on cloud
“Today we’ve got 95 percent of applications running internally
and 5 percent externally. In five years, that ratio will be 80
percent internal and 20 percent external.” – CIO, Fortune 500
financial company
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16. Workloads in the cloud
Innovation, skunk-
work projects, new Backup, Disaster
development, QA, Recovery,
Load testing Redundancy
Collaboration, CRM, Characteristics: Spiky
HR, Office traffic patterns, self-
Productivity, ERP, and contained,
Business Analytics virtualizable, scalable
(SaaS) architecture
17. Small, large companies have
different concerns
Large Small and Midsize
Enterprises Businesses
Implementing pilot projects 62% 46%
Watching and learning 38% 49%
Implementing and deploying 35% 34%
noncritical applications
Deploying mission-critical 12% 25%
applications
No plans 6% 4%
Don’t know 0% 1%
“I firmly believe that my data is safer in [the cloud vendor’s]
hands than it is in mine” – SMB CIO
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18. Several customer concerns, but responsibility
is shifting to the vendors
How will we
How do we
Does it make manage the cultural
interoperate with
economic sense? change and fear of
our existing “stuff”?
job loss?
How will we Once we’re in, how
Do I have re-write
handle security do we get out?
everything?
and compliance? (portability)
How will we handle Is it mature, Do we need new
legal matters? reliable, and stable? skills?
19. Implications for customers
• Embrace change: start with
experiments and pilots now “I think a lot of
– Experience cloud business benefits companies in more
first hand in a low-risk environment traditional, mature
• Think „Cloud = Outsourcing 2.0‟ industries like ours are
– Innovate on “core” and outsource missing out on a lot of
“context”
opportunities to take
– Leverage cloud to enable real-time
decision making and collaboration advantage of what the
across the supply-chain cloud has to offer.” –
• Change IT skill sets CIO manufacturing
– Business requirements, vendor company
management, system architecture,
new cloud platform skills
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