OpenStack – the Road
Ahead for Cloud
Computing Platform
Lew Tucker, Ph.D.
VP/CTO, Cisco Systems, Inc.
May 10, 2017
@lewtucker
Gordon Moore Adam SmithRobert Metcalfe
The forces providing the fuel for the changes in our
technology and economic landscape
The Road Ahead ……..
1995: Personal computing to a global
super information superhighway
2010 - 2017: Internet everywhere, virtual machines,
cloud computing, and changing computing paradigms,
2017
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With the Internet
Change is happening at an ever increasing rate
Software is
changing the world
Bits move faster
than atoms
GitHub: 35 Million Projects,14 Million Users
From Physical Infrastructure to the Cloud
Instant, self-provisioning, dynamic allocation of resources
Physical Domain Virtual Domain
Age of Software Defined Data Centers…
Agility
Faster Time
to Market
Lower Cost
Automation
through software
Open Systems
investment
Avoids lock-in
Services
That span both
public and private
deployments
Configuration and Cabling Becomes Code
submodule execd-routes {
import inet-types { prefix inet; }
include execd-types;
description
“providesfor configuring static routes
(IPv4 and IPv6).
grouping routes {
container inet {
list route {
key "name prefix-length";
leaf name {
type inet:ipv4-address;
}
leaf prefix-length {
type prefixLengthIPv4;
}
leaf enabled {
type boolean;
default true;
}
Automation and declarative models replace manual procedures
Open Source Is Where “Standard” Cloud
Infrastructure Will Be Defined
Customers favor
open, modular
architectures
Open solutions
provide agility
and reduce cost
Open source
platforms drive
standarization
Business Reasons for Open Source
What does this mean to be a software company…
Cloud Computing Today:
Not Public vs Private but services across both
81%
Evaluating or using
public cloud
73%
Have a
hybrid cloud strategy
Source: Source: IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Cisco, Cloud Going Mainstream. All Are Trying,
Some Are Benefiting; Few Are Maximizing Value. September 2016
84%
Will use
multiple clouds
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738085.pdf
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Growth in Data Center Traffic
Internet of
Things
Data centersHQ BranchHosting / Colocation DevicesPrivate cloud Public Clouds
Hybrid Cloud
Cloud platforms are creating a hybrid IT world
New requirements
SECURE
CONNECTIVITY
HYBRID IT
OPERATIONS
VISIBILITY
& INSIGHTS
RISK
MANAGEMENT
AGILITY
COST
PERFORMANCE
RISK
Emerging new platforms
Science continues to open up opportunities for
technology
Age of the Algorithm
Cost of genome sequencing falling faster than Moore’s law
https://www.genome.gov/sequencingcostsdata/
From hobbyist interest to commercial application in
record time
Kickstarter and other ways to finance new ideas
“Know how” knows no boundaries
Qatar Science and Technology Center
Qatar Science and
Technology Park
The long AI winter is finally over
AlphaGo improved
in the final days by
playing games
against itself
DYI and Learn by doing….
http://playground.tensorflow.org/
Jobs and online training complete a virtuous cycle
“Serverless”, function-as-a-service paradigms connect
services across multiple clouds – Amazon Lambda…
“Alexa, ask my
assistant to
see when I can
go to the gym”
“3pm on
Thursday would
work”
Amazon Echo
Device
Gmail and
Calendar API
Amazon Echo
Device
Speech understanding and embedded learning will
change how systems are built and how they are used
Smart
Assistant
Machine
Learning
OpenStack Cloud Computing Software
• Freely available, open source
software allowing anyone to build
their own private or public clouds.
• Built by a growing community of over
400 companies, including most of the
major IT companies
• Open source and open APIs allows
the customer to avoid being locked in
to a single vendor, while creating
opportunities for vendors to develop
their own solutions and services
http://www.openstack.org/assets/welcome-guide/OpenStackWelcomeGuide.pdf
Software – built in the open, with an online community
Mature Set of
Cloud Services
An Expanding
Set of Projects
OpenStack
Navigator:
Catalog of projects
including
adoption,age, and
maturity for each
OpenStack Certification
OpenStack Becoming Platform For NFV, Media clouds, and
other apps across VM’s, Containers, and Baremetal
Working with
other open source
communities:
OPNFV, OpenDaylight,
OpenContrail, FD.io,…
Virtual Network Functions
Management and Orchestration
Cisco Sessions Today
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9:30 – 10:30 am Shannon McFarland,
Anne McCormick
Cisco Advanced Networking:
FD.io Vector Packet Processing (VPP)
IPV6 OpenStack Deployment
11:00 – 11:40 am Naren Narendra and
Juan Ramon Acosta
Deploying and Operating an NFV Cloud:
Network Functions Virtualization for SP’s &
Telco’s along with customer examples
11:50 – 12:30 am Sanjeev Rampal, and
Himanshu Raj
Networking Policies Across Containers and VMs:
Using Contiv, and ACI for policy-driven
networking of containers and VM’s
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Open stack the road ahead