Breaking Down Resistance to OpenStack

Laying the Cloud Foundation

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1. Image FPO Breaking Down the Resistance to OpenStack Laying the Cloud Foundation
2. 2 Walter Bentley Cloud Solutions Architect, RPC Twitter: @djstayflypro LinkedIn: http://goo.gl/r2p21i GitHub: wbentley15 Blog: hitchnyc.com •  Over 17 years of IT experience •  New Yorker (soon to be a Texan) •  Cloud Advocate (hybrid is my favorite) •  Knowledge sharer •  OpenStack believer •  DJ (literally…no lie) •  Always about living life now!
3. Image FPO 3 W H Y T H E C L O U D ? W H Y O P E N S TA C K ? 3
4. 4 93% of organizations surveyed are running applications or experimenting with IaaS 82% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy, up from 74% in 2014 88% of organizations are using public cloud while 63% are using private cloud http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/03/04/new-stats-from-the-state-of-cloud-report/"
5. 5 Cloud Saved Information Technology •  Flexibility •  Capacity •  Scalability •  Security •  Predictable/Cost (Cap-Ex Free) •  Reduce Recovery But yet… 68% of enterprises run less than a fifth of their application portfolio in the cloud and 55% of enterprises report that a significant portion of their existing application portfolio is not in cloud, but is built with cloud-friendly architectures http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2015/03/04/new-stats-from-the-state-of-cloud-report/"
6. 6 O P E N S TAC K : P R O S & C O N S
7. 7 OpenStack Cons
8. 8 OpenStack Pros Add OpenStack control plane nodes to handle needed capacity Availability Zones provide compute isolation Multi-DC Support via Regions Scale horizontally using commodity hardware to add additional compute resources Multi-Tenancy Isolation provided by robust RBAC OpenStack meets High Availability requirements for its own infrastructure services Fully Distributed Architecture
9. Image FPO 9 Have Answers for the Hard Questions 9
10. 10 Hard Questions YOU May Be Asked This software is Open Source, who is going to support us? It’s too new for us to use it? We are not interested in supporting yet another hypervisor? What are the hardware requirements? We want to use the cloud but, it has to be in our DC? What Enterprise organizations actually use it?
11. 11 Answers... OpenStack is NOT a Hypervisor OpenStack Nova is a direct manager of hypervisors and built to manage multiple types of hypervisors Flexibility is Power Commodity Hardware OpenStack likes all hardware equally… No more worrying about matching server specs The flexibility around designing and deploying OpenStack is the power all Infrastructure admins want/need
12. 12 Answers... IT Moral Booster 5 Years & Going Managed Cloud Support for OpenStack can come from Managed Cloud providers like Rackspace (it would be our pleasure!) The OpenStack Community has been up and running for 5 years this year Internal IT will have an opportunity to learn a new technology; increasing their value and increasing productivity
13. 13 Worst Case Scenario…just print this slide
14. O N E FA N AT I C A L P L AC E | S A N A N TO N I O , T X 7 8 21 8 U S S A L E S : 1 - 8 0 0 - 9 61 - 2 8 8 8 | U S S U P P O R T: 1 - 8 0 0 - 9 61 - 4 4 5 4 | W W W. R AC K S PAC E . C O M © RACKSPACE LTD. | RACKSPACE® AND FANATICAL SUPPORT® ARE SERVICE MARKS OF RACKSPACE US, INC. REGISTERED IN THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES. | WWW.RACKSPACE.COM Thank you Twitter: @djstayflypro Email: walter.bentley@rackspace.com