28. UIQUITOUS and FLEXIBLE
We see a world of cloud computing that is
UBIQUITOUS and FLEXIBLE
supporting multi-cloud application environments.
PORTABLE and INTEROPERABLE
enabling users to move their applications wherever they need to go.
VIBRANT and GROWING
underlying a massive ecosystem of applications and services.
supporting multi-cloud application environments.
29. We see a human community that is
PRAGMATIC
and focused on exchanging practical experience.
DIVERSE
and inclusive of people across race, gender, orientation, and lifestyle.
RESPECTFUL
and committed to listening to thoughtful and honest perspectives.
The Cloud Foundry platform became multi-vendor open source in January of 2015, about 22 months ago. We started to speak about a few key concepts back then, which hold true today. Today, I’m going to talk a little bit about the evolution of those concepts, how they hold true and where we’re headed next.
A very important concept, which we first presented at our US Summit in May of 2015, was continuous innovation. At this point, Continuous innovation is growing in importance across the enterprise on a nearly daily basis. More and more Fortune 500 enterprises are moving to Cloud Foundry to deliver continuous innovation, ensuring they are quickly and effectively solving real business problems and using cloud technology to do it. I’ll get into a bit more depth on some of those users later.
This year, we’ve seen the conversation shift to the benefits of open source - and Cloud Foundry - for the entire ecosystem. Open Source is a unique solution to business problems - it’s a positive sum game - where everybody wins. As a result, with the maturing of Cloud Foundry, there are more winners. Users are the first to “claim victory” thanks to the unique nature of open source, but providers win by building businesses for those users. At the same time operators and developers see huge productivity gains by virtue of using Cloud Foundry.
This brings us to today. What’s next? How do we take this momentum and move forward? Where is our community heading?
Consider the iPhone. When this product came out in 2007, it was little more than a very cool phone. It took pictures. It had internet access. there was a touch screen. Beyond that, it wasn’t all that much better than other technologies already available. Sure, it replaced your iPod, but that was pretty much it. It wasn’t yet a platform.
A year later, in July of 2008, everything changed with the launch of the App Store. This was the seismic shift. Third parties now had a platform to deliver solutions - in app form - to millions of users. The app store created an ecosystem. It created a market for new, mobile apps as products. It made it simpler to share experiences, faster.
As we enter the next wave of cloud technologies, we’re creating a similar shakeup for the enterprise.
Think of the apps you’re using daily today - things like mail and iMessage. There are apps starting to populate and cross-over as well - things like workday and box…this next wave of cloud is about uniting the consumer experience of the iPhone on which we’ve come to rely...
with the infrastructure the technology industry has been talking about for the last decade - AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack, etc.
In short, we’re entering the phase where cloud is finally delivering on its promise - its bringing the experience of your iPhone to enterprise apps.
Cloud Foundry is at the heart of that shift.
This shift is happening via packaged apps and services, further extending that positive sum game beyond just the platform to the very apps and services, micro or otherwise, that run on it.
We’re starting to see momentum build. In our two major events this year there were nearly 3000 people. We’re doing these Cloud Foundry Days across the region this fall, expecting thousands more.
And, indeed, major companies of all shapes and sizes - and from virtually every major industry - are standardizing on Cloud Foundry. We work with virtually every leading company in the Financial Services industry - companies like Citi, Fidelity, HSBC, Visa, BNYMellon, JPMC and many, many more. We’re working with most of the companies paving the way in IoT including Bosch, Honeywell, GE and NTT. In automotive, we’re working with the largest companies in the world, which is also true for healthcare.
We work with three of the D5 in government, along with the US government, most of the major telcos in the world including Telstra, a gold member of the foundation. We also work with the largest companies in the world in insurance and retail. And the list goes on.
These organizations understand business has fundamentally changed. A stat we often point to tells the story for us. Since 2000, 52% of the Fortune 500 has turned over. This shift in business fortune is reflective of a shift in expectations. People now expect the seamless access to information they get from the iPhone, no matter what they’re doing or where they’re doing it.
I’m going to pause and say that again, because it’s important. Just since the year 2000, more than half of the Fortune 500 has changed.
So, how do we work with companies to stay in the Fortune 500, or maybe even get back into that group?
By delivering services across the many different flavors of Cloud Foundry - services like tibco, of course. and others like appdynamics, apigee, redis, etc. What you see on this slide is just a smattering of the services available today.
We xonnect these services via the Cloud Foundry Service Broker API. So, what exactly is it?
The API is effective a contract between the platform - Cloud Foundry - and services. It essentially exists to do four things:
Create, bind, unbind and delete services from your platform and, by extension, your apps.
This technology is the single most effective way to deliver services in a cloud environment, which is why...
We’ve created a Cloud Foundry Service Broker API Working Group and made the technology available across the industry. In working with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and companies like Google, Kubernetes, IBM, Red Hat, Pivotal and others - we’re doing what’s best for the user by making sure these services are readily available.
While services are incredibly important, they’re only half of the story.
The benefit of working with Cloud Foundry then, is true portability for not just services, but also applications across any Cloud Foundry certified product. This is part of the promise of our platform certification. This promise is ultimately for those users we’ve been talking about, but is backed up across the ecosystem.
Certified providers have continued to expand this year. We started out with seven companies offering certified Cloud Foundry - but we’re now up to 11. This highlights the importance of certification at the platform level. It delivers real, tangible benefits to users, chief amongst them:
- avoiding vendor lock-in, with true portability across Cloud Foundry distributions from some of the most trusted technology companies in the world AND
- Real trust. With certification, there is true standardization. When a company tells you they’re running standardized Cloud Foundry, you can rest assured that it means something and that you have options with some of the most trusted companies in the business.
So, as we look toward what’s next, Cloud Foundry sits at the heart of the enterprise app store experience. Our certified offerings help ensure the services - and applications - will be delivered consistently no matter what infrastructure you’re using.
This will mean, just like the iPhone ecosystem, the user who wins.
As our ecosystem continues to grow by adding more users, companies delivering services and system integrators and independent software vendors, we are well positioned to be the only technology that can deliver the simplicity large enterprises desire.
Shifting to a few examples of our ecosystem growth, on the codebase side, we’ve exploded.
We’ve continued to grow at a pace that only Linux - the largest open source project of all time - can beat.
We’ve seen 31k commits, 2400+ contributors and we now have more than 130 full time core committers to the project.
These are the community members who are building our shared technology.
At the same time, we’re delivering on the promise of multi-cloud and now extend across the most commonly used cloud infrastructures, including AWS, GCP, Azure, vSphere, Openstack, Softlayer, RackHD and VMware Photon.
And our human community is exploding beyond just our codebase. We’ve grown to:
- 66 member companies
- 195 individual user groups
- More than 53. Thousand individual members of those groups
- We’re now in 132 cities, including, of course, Sydney. And 56 countries.
Our expanded member list is veritable who’s who of technology companies. Most recently, we’ve seen an explosion of IoT companies like Bosch, Hitachi, Honeywell and others joining. More than 20 new companies have joined in 2016 alone and we expect that growth pace - which should amount to more than one new member every two weeks, to continue through 2017 and beyond.
I’d like to close by speaking just a little bit about the world we see, the world we’re building with you. The world we aspire to.
We see a world of cloud computing that is:
- ubiquitous and flexible
- this means multiple clouds and application environments.
- portable and interoperable
- this is the promise of platform certification. your apps will travel with you, wherever you go.
- vibrant and growing
- this is the promise of the future we’ve talked about today. we are around the corner from massive growth of applications and services, with help from all of you.
The human community, which all are you are a part of, we envision is one that is:
- pragmatic - and practical.
- diverse - inclusivity is incredibly important to us - across race, gender, orientation AND lifestyle.
- Finally - respectful - of each others thoughts and ideas. We often learn the most from the quietest voice in the room. This is only true if we listen to them.
With that, thank you all for joining us today, and for your time.
