In this talk I propose open source and cloud federation as key drivers for a competitive cloud marketplace.

1. Open
Source
and
Federa.on
Key
Drivers
For
Compe//ve
Marketplace

2. What
am
I
going
to
talk?
§ Role
of
OSS
in
Cloud
Compu/ng
§ Conven/onal
Wisdom
§ Debunking
Conven/onal
Wisdom
§ Federa/on
Is
Key
§ Cloud
Wisdom
§ Debunking
Cloud
Wisdom
§ Open
Source
as
an
enabler
of
Federa/on
§ Examples
and
Conclusion

3. Why
I
am
talking
here?
• Because
I
am
an
analyst
• 30000
feet
view
• No
emo/ons
(Ideally)
• Ac/vist
analyst?
• Compe//ve
market
is
key

4. Open
Source:
Building
Blocks
For
Cloud
§ Web
Services
to
Cloud:
Open
Source
Is
The
Reason
§ License
Freedom
§ Economics
§ Imagine
AWS
without
OSS

5. Conven.onal
Wisdom
• Mostly
western
pundits
• Economics
of
scarcity
• C
O
N
S
O
L
I
D
A
T
I
O
N
Meh

6. Why
CW
Worked?
§ Market
was
mostly
US
§ Forced
to
believe
in
economics
of
scarcity
§ Open
source
was
rela/vely
new
§ Barrier
to
entry
for
non-­‐soRware
products
was
very
high

7. Debunking
Conven.onal
Wisdom
§ World
is
flat
and
markets
are
global
§ Global
Investors
making
local
play
§ Handful
of
providers
cannot
meet
diverse
needs
§ Regulatory
regimes
are
not
going
away
§ Open
source
enlightenment

8. New
Conven.onal
Wisdom
§ Economics
of
abundance
§ Open
source
showed
the
way
§ Innova/on
and
mone/za/on
at
higher
orders
§ Technology
is
pushing
the
markets
towards
this
trend
§ Compe//on
is
key
for
the
market
system
to
be
successful

9. Wait
A
Second!!
Take
a
look
at
the
shared
hos/ng
landscape

10. Federated
Clouds
Conven/onal
Wisdom
Open
Source
Thinking
(Economics
of
Scarcity)
(Economics
of
Abundance)

11. Federated
Clouds
§ Federated
Clouds
is
an
an/dote
for
market
monopoly
§ Federated
clouds
can
meet
global
needs
including
regulatory
requirements
§ Scalability?
No
worries.
Federa/on
can
help
§ Key
for
the
Big
Data
world
§ Different
economics

12. Defining
Federated
Cloud
Ecosystems
§ Mul/tude
of
players
§ Heterogeneity
of
cloud
plaZorms
§ Interoperability
and
Portability
§ No
vendor
lock-­‐in
§ Geographical
distribu/on

13. Mul.tude
of
players
§ Central
to
the
very
idea
of
federated
clouds
§ Datacenters
are
not
turning
into
football
fields
§ Cri/cal
to
protect
against
market
vulnerability,
monopoly
§ Community
Clouds
and
Regional
Clouds

14. Heterogeneity
of
Cloud
PlaKorms
§ Federa/on
is
possible
with
just
one
plaZorm
but
§ ShiRs
the
danger
of
market
vulnerability
to
the
plaZorm
than
provider
§ Monopoly
is
bad
even
if
it
is
open
source
§ Heterogeneity
handles
diversity
§ Complex
Adap/ve
Systems
&
Heterogeneous
Environments

15. Interoperability
and
Portability
§ Interoperability
and
Workload
portability
are
cri/cal
§ Needed
to
avoid
any
lock-­‐in
§ Don’t
care
about
standardiza/on
at
this
moment

16. Geographical
Distribu.on
§ Geographical
distribu/on
is
key
§ Requirement
for
mul/ple
providers
not
enough
§ Needs
are
diverse
(performance,
customiza/on,
etc.)
§ Regulatory
needs

17. Tim
O’
Reilly
School
Of
Thought
§ Architecture
Triumphs
Licensing
§ Focus
on
Interfaces
and
Formats

18. Open
Cloud
Ini.a.ve
§ Open
Cloud
=
No
Vendor
Lock
In
§ Open
Cloud
=
Open
Interfaces
&
Open
Formats
§ But
Weird
Requirement:
At
least
one
of
the
implementa/on
should
be
open
source

19. What
#OCI
Can
Achieve?
§ It
Can
Avoid
Vendor
Lock-­‐In
§ Help
You
Ensure
Business
Con/nuity
But,
But,
But
………

20. But?
§ It
Doesn’t
Actually
Help
Users
Much
Why?
§ The
“nature”
of
markets
will
lead
to
smaller
number
of
players

21. Apple
Mantra
Less
Choice
Is
Good,
Right?

22. Ya
Think?

23. So
Open
Source
and
Federa/on
are
key
to
enable
a
compe//ve
marketplace

24. Why
Open
Source?
Federa/on
!=
Open
Source

25. Why
Open
Source?

26. Examples
§ IaaS:
Eucalyptus,
CloudStack,
OpenStack,
etc.
§ PaaS:
CloudFoundry,
OpenShiR,
Brooklyn
Project,
Cloudify,
etc.
Disclosure:
Vmware,
RedHat,
CloudSoR,
Cloudify
sponsors
of
DeployCon
2012

27. Open
Source
in
ac.on
Tier
3,
Uhuru
SoRware,
Ac/veState
and
AppFog’s
use
of
CloudFoundry
Disclosure:
Tier
3
(also
client),
Ac/veState
&
AppFog
were
sponsors
of
DeployCon
2012

28. Conclusion
§ Open
Source
=
Rapid
Innova/on
§ Federa/on
=
Compe//ve
Cloud
Marketplace
§ Open
Source
enables
easy
federa/on
and
plays
a
role
in
keeping
the
market
honest

29.
One
more
thing
(fortunately,
Apple
didn’t
patent
this)

30. Yes,
Open
Source
is
Important
If
you
agree
with
me,
please
tweet
Hey
@samj,
open
source
is
cri2cal
for
open
cloud
#oci
If
you
are
not
convinced,
please
tweet
Hey
@krishnan,
E
N
O
U
G
H
#oci
Thank
You

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Coordinates
Work:
Principal
Analyst,
Rishidot
Research
and
Editor,
CloudAve.com
Email:
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@krishnan
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