1. “It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a
facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even
eerier type of order.”
– Douglas Hofstadter

2. OpenStack
The Evolution of Software-Defined Infrastructure
Joshua McKenty
Director, OpenStack Foundation
Member, Python Software Foundation
Chief Technology Officer, Piston Cloud
@jmckenty
josh@openstack.org

4. Time = Money.
Time-to-market = Win.

5. Computers have gotten faster.
IT has gotten slower.

6. Silos cause slowness.

7. “Software defined” is
about... using scripts
and other automation
tools to remove “human
middleware” from the
equation.
– Neil MacDonald, Gartner

8. "In scale-up, servers
are like pets. You name
them and when they
get sick, you nurse
them back to health…

9. …In scale-out, servers are like cattle. You number them and when
they get sick, you shoot them.”
– Bill Baker

10. Why now?

11. “…by 2020, our
Digital Universe will be
44 TIMES AS BIG as
it was in 2009…”

13. We have reached a
tipping point.

14. Cloud changes everything.

15. “The difference between effectiveness and
efficiency is the same difference that you
have between wisdom and knowledge. We
need far more wisdom. We suffer from too
much knowledge.”
– Russell Ackoff

17. IaaS: Shared pools of resources

18. IaaS: Shared pools of resources

19. ! The world’s leading open source cloud framework
! Founded by NASA and Rackspace in 2010
! Global collaboration of companies
! Massively scalable compute, storage and networking

20. The ecosystem

21. The ecosystem

22. The codebase

23. The codebase

24. Some users

25. Some recent news
• IBM “all-in” on OpenStack
• Huawei launches OpenStack public cloud
• Coraid contributes drivers
• Seagate joins OpenStack
• IBS DataFort, Staples select OpenStack
• Ericsson launches OpenStack-based product
• HP adds resellers to its public OpenStack cloud

26. Some assembly required.

28. Stop Thinking.

29. Piston Enterprise OpenStack
Batteries Included:
– Bare-metal
Hypervisor
– Virtual SAN
– SDN Controller

30. OpenStack Market Impacts
• Every network vendor
• Every server vendor
SOFTWARE
• Every hypervisor
DEFINED
• Every storage vendor
• Most service providers
EVERYTHING

31. Win on Time-to-Market
• New dev environments in
< 1 minute
• Clone from dev to test to
prod in < 1 minute
• SDDC without downtime

32. Win on Hardware Costs
• Commodity x86 Servers for Computing
• Commodity x86 Servers for Storage
• Commodity x86 Servers for Networking

33. Win on Headcount
• Best of enterprise
IT is 150:1
• Best of cloud IT is
3000:1
• Admins add value
when they’re
mediating, not
executing

34. Questions?

35. Thank you.