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Before we get to
OpenStack…

A Word On “The Cloud”

THERE’S A GLOBAL SHIFT TOWARD CLOUD. THE BENEFITS: AGILITY, SCALABILITY, DECREASED HARDWARE COSTS.

Hybrid cloud: a mix of private cloud

Public cloud: shared resource, “pay- Private Cloud: dedicated to a single
and public cloud orchestrated together
as-you-go” models are common user
to meet company needs

3 CLOUD MODELS
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What is OpenStack

Programmable infrastructure that lays a common One platform for virtual machines, containers and
set of APIs on top of compute, networking and bare metal
storage
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OpenStack is open source

HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS

OPENSTACK PRINCIPLES

Choice & control: ability Ability to contribute or

1 OPEN SOURCE
to choose between and directly influence the
switch vendors roadmap
2 OPEN DESIGN

3 OPEN DEVELOPMENT

Widely adopted open Part of a vibrant community to

source APIs are the new share knowledge and help each 4 OPEN COMMUNITY
standards other
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Primary business drivers

#1 cost
(⅔ of users said cost was their #1 business driver)

#2 operational efficiency
#3 accelerate innovation
Source: User Survey, April 2016, 1183 responses
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Which industries choose OpenStack?

RETAIL/E-COMMERCE FINANCIAL TELECOM ACADEMIC/RESEARCH

ENERGY MANUFACTURING ENTERTAINMENT

See more at
openstack.org/user-stories
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What runs on OpenStack?

TELECOM/NFV HPC ENTERPRISE APPS BIG DATA

86% of telecoms say OpenStack CERN runs one of the largest Comcast powers customer-facing Banco Santander runs 1,000
is important to their business; OpenStack clouds to process data and internal applications and compute nodes of OpenStack in
many are using OpenStack to from the Large Hadron Collider, services for both production and data centers across the world, and
virtualize their networks and giving physicists the resources development environments with uses Cloudera on OpenStack to
implement edge computing to they need to unleash the secrets OpenStack. power fraud detection.
achieve agility significant cost of the universe.
savings.

MULTI-CLOUD E-COMMERCE DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY WEB SERVICES

DigitalFilm Tree uses Walmart moved their global e- Adobe Digital Marketing uses Workday moved their on-
interoperable OpenStack private commerce platform to OpenStack to convert their demand software services
and public clouds to process OpenStack, powering desktop, existing virtualization from static, virtualized
thousands of hours of raw footage mobile, tablet and kiosk users. environment into self-service IT. environments to a fully elastic
into a one-hour TV show. and scalable platform based
on OpenStack.
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History of OpenStack
2010 2014 2016 - April 2017

NASA + Rackspace OpenStack Marketplace opens to showcase Half the Fortune 100 run OpenStack; OpenStack emerges as one platform
develop the basis of maturing ecosystem; Certified OpenStack Administrator for containers,
OpenStack “Juno” release seen as enterprise grade program launched VMs and bare metal

2015 2016
2012
OpenStack Powered interop China booms; 86% of telecoms
OpenStack Foundation say OpenStack important to
established certification launched
their business
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About the OpenStack Foundation

Mission Structure Functions

To produce the ubiquitous Open Source Board of Directors Maintain infrastructure for development
Cloud Computing platform that will & communication
meet the needs of public and private Technical Committee
clouds regardless of size, by being Coordinate software releases
simple to implement and massively User Committee
scalable. Trademark and legal management
Staff
Host summits & development meetings

Promote the use of OpenStack

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OpenStack Foundation Sponsors

PLATINUM MEMBERS

GOLD MEMBERS
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The OpenStack Community

70,000+
MEMBERS
185
COUNTRIES
650+
ORGANIZATIONS
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How does the community collaborate?

GLOBAL OPENSTACK SUMMITS VOTING ON REPRESENTATIVES HACKATHONS

CONTRIBUTING CODE, DEVELOPER REGIONAL OPENSTACK DAYS & LOCAL

TOPICAL MAILING LISTS
PLANNING SESSIONS MEETUPS
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Cross-community collaboration
OpenStack integrates with a number of other technologies, including many popular open source projects, enabling users to combine them with OpenStack.

Containers PaaS NFV Provisioning

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The OpenStack Framework

WHAT GETS CALLED

OPENSTACK?

USING THE SAMPLE

CONFIGURATIONS

CORE SERVICES &

OPTIONAL SERVICES
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How do you get OpenStack?

1 2 3
Distros—manage packaging Managed private cloud Public cloud provider
and testing

Remotely managed in
A your datacenter
OR

B Hosted private cloud in

service provider facility

openstack.org/marketplace
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OpenStack’s software releases

NEWTON OCATA PIKE QUEENS

October 2015 February 2017 August 2017 February 2018

Releases happen In development

every 6 months

Most clouds run one of the two most recent releases

Learn more about the releases at openstack.org/software
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It costs less and does more

“In all private cloud-based applications…we “TD Bank...experienced a 25% to 40% costs savings
expect approximately 70% of cost savings as on their platforms and virtual machines over their
compared to classical IT solutions.” previous solution by deploying OpenStack.”

–Holger Urban, Volkswagen

–Forbes, “3 Reasons Why An
OpenStack Private Cloud May
Cost You Less Than Amazon
Web Services”

Watch this session:

Elephant in the Room: What's the TCO fo
r an OpenStack Cloud?
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OpenStack is recognized for its security

“The OpenStack community is taking

security seriously…”
openstack.org/software/security
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You don’t need to hire new employees

Train who you have... Get them certified... But if you want to...

Training Certified OpenStack Post a job (for free!)

Administrator
openstack.org/marketplace/training
/ openstack.org/coa openstack.org/jobs
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Next Steps
How you can get started in OpenStack…
1 JOIN THE FOUNDATION

2 JOIN THE MAILING LISTS

3 READ THIS COLLATERAL: BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE, PATH TO CLOUD

4 ATTEND AN EVENT IN YOUR AREA: OPENSTACK.ORG/EVENTS

5 MORE RESOURCES: OPENSTACK.ORG/SOFTWARE/START/