In a disruptive world, digital transformation looms large for organizations fighting to maintain relevance in the digital arms race. Successful organizations must have the right vision, strategy, and technology to embrace innovation. Dell EMC’s Josh Bernstein shares experiences from his time running the Siri deployment and infrastructure architecture team at Apple. By embracing open source and DevOps tools and methodologies, Bernstein’s team took Siri from launch to tens of thousands of servers in less than five years. Bernstein will share how Dell EMC's OSS internal strategy can relate to your own IT Transformation.

1. The Open Source Effect on
Dell EMC
Joshua Bernstein
VP, Technology
@quityourjoshing
Dell Technologies

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Lessons of a Past Life
• Dozens of Sites Worldwide
• Dozens Countries
• One Hundred Thousand Hosts
• Largest VMWare Environment ever Built
• Later the largest Containerized Environment
• 100s Millions Req/Day

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Do Something Materially Different
• Maturity of the environment
increases as you move up the
stack
• Skipping Levels Limits The
Infrastructures
Actualization/Potential
• Automation
• No Snowflakes
• An Abstraction of Infrastructure
away from the Applications
• Resiliency moves away from
Infrastructure and into the
Application (Move Up the Stack)
• Operational Model (DevOps)
Key Principles What Makes It Different

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Bimodal IT

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Bimodal IT

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The Real Modes

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Qualities of the new persona
A new Persona Emerges
• Value interoperability
• Value the ability to leverage a collaborative community
• Not aligned to job titles
• Practiced DevOps

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DevOps Defined
“DevOps is an operational model
whereby software development
principles are applied to operations”

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DevOps Visualized

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Open Source at Dell EMC
– Contribute to Meaningful Open Source (OSS) projects
– Develop and Support our Own Projects
– Drive Awareness
– Participate in relevant community projects
– Act in the interest of building a community
{code} by Dell EMC is a group of passionate open
source engineers and advocates working to build a
community through contribution, engagement and
technical solution leadership.
Platinum Sponsor

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Tenants of Good Open Source
• Act on Behalf of the Community
• Transparency
• Ability to Consume

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Community programs – {code} Catalysts
26 individuals from 7 countries working at Docker, Red Hat,
VMware, Intel, Sirius, Acquia, IBM, Codeship, Rancher, Mesosphere,
BlockBridge, BT, Pivotal, Dell and Dell EMC

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Intangible Benefits Of OSS
Not reinventing the wheel
Customization with benefits
Motivated workforce Attracting top talent
Standardized practices
Business acceleration
Cleaner software
Cheaper
Customer goodwill
Community support
Innovation
Flexibility
Freedom
Integration

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True benefits of OSS

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True benefits of OSS
• Freedom – to run software for any purpose and to redistribute it
• Innovation – the ability to leverage a collaborative community of
developers
• Flexibility – to deploy the software in a manner that best meets the
organization’s requirements
• Integration – Ability to easily integrate open source software with
existing infrastructure
It’s not about cost, it’s about integration

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