My slides from Indian Openstack User Group, May 5, 2012

1. Cloud and IaaS
Indian Openstack User Group
5th May 2012
Govind Tatachari

2. Agenda
Cloud computing … warm-up
Discussion Segments:
Why Cloud Computing?
What IS or IS NOT Cloud Computing?
IaaS markets – some insights
Did you know?
IaaS: Towards Reference Architecture
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3. Too many choices …
Azure GoGrid
DropBox Eucalyptus
Private
AWS Rackspace
Virtualization
HP
SaaS OpenNebula
Hybrid
VMware
Openstack
Citrix
Platform-as-a- IBM
Service
IaaS
… can be mentally exhausting
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4. … but good for official goal-setting
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5. … and simply explained humor
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6. Discussion Segment
 Why Cloud Computing?
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7. What is the purpose/objective?
 Is there a business problem to be solved?
 Is cloud computing just too SHINY A NEW TOY?
 Can it ADDRESS/SOLVE any of India’s
challenges/problems?
 Is cloud computing just too DISRUPTIVE to ignore?
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8. What is the purpose/objective?
 Is there a business problem to be solved?
 Is cloud computing just too SHINY A NEW TOY?
 Can it ADDRESS/SOLVE any of India’s
challenges/problems?
 Is cloud computing just too DISRUPTIVE to ignore?
 Enable new solutions!
 Collaboration
 Scalability
 Flexibility
 Availability
 Portability
 Cost
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9. Cloud ecosystem: nascent, fragmented & growing
SYSTEM INDEPENDENT
INTEGRATORS SOFTWARE
HOSTING PROVIDERS
ADVISORY SERVICES
INTEGRATED STACK
VENDORS
PROVIDERS
STARTUPS
CLOUD CONSUMERS
TECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS
… fraught with uncertainities and risks …
How do you make your move “manageable”?
Adapted from RobustCloud
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10. Discussion Segment
 What IS or IS NOT Cloud Computing?
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11. Cloud computing characteristics
Service delivery Deployment
Cloud service consumer
models models
Cloud service provider
What services are delivered How services are deployed
Specific characteristics
Common characteristics
Essential Enabing
characteristics Technologies
What makes it different from
other solutions What makes it possible
Adapted from National Institute ot Science and Technology (NIST)
and observations by Rui Esteves
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12. IS it Cloud or NOT?
Cloud computing
Common Specific
Characteristics Characteristics
Service
Essential Enabling Deployment
Delivery
Characteristics Technologies Models
Models
Datacenter as a Service
 On-demand
Processing as a Service
 Self-Service
Storage as a Service
 Scalable
Network as a Service
 Measurable
Desktop as a Service
Is it “OSSM” (AWESOME)?
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13. Evolution of IT computing models
Extreme Designed Designed
Uptime for Failover for Failure
(99.999) (Always On)
Vertical Horizontal
Scaling Scaling
Expensive Expensive Cheap
Custom “Semi-commodiity” Commodity
Hardware Hardware Hardware
Hardware Software
HA HA
Centralized Decentralized Distributed
Centralized Shared
Service Service Self-Service
Model Model Model
Mainframe Client-Server Cloud
Source: Cloudscaling and NEC
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14. Discussion Segment
 IaaS Market – some insights
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15. Ranking: Public cloud IaaS companies
Source: Gartner Magic Quadrant (December 2011)
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16. Ranking: Top 10 most powerful IaaS companies
1 Amazon Web Services The gold standard
2 Bluelock Out of the blue
3 CSC Targetting the enterprise
4 GoGrid All cloud, all the time
5 IBM Leveraging the installed base
6 Openstack No vendor lock-in
7 Rackspace Taking a leadership role
8 Savvis Full range of options
9 Terremark Three-pronged VMware-based approach
10 VMware Key building block
Source: Christine Burns, Network World US, 15 April 2012
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17. Cloud Acquisitions <2010: A Partial List
D Center Virtual. PaaS SaaS DaaS EcoSys
CA Cassatt 4Base 3Terra Oblicore Nimsoft
Cisco LineSider, Webex, ScanSafe
Tidal Skype
Citrix Paglo VMLogix SpringSource PostPath
Dell Ocarina 3PAR Boomi
EMC FastScale, VMware TriCipher
Integrien,
Greenplum
HP IBRIX, PolyServe Fortify Melodeo
Opsware,
Lefthand
IBM Storwize Lombardi, CastIron,
Unica, Netezza
Coremetrics
Oracle Sun Virtual Iron Passlogix
RackSpace JungleDisk Slicehost Webmail.us
Salesforce Heroku DimDim, Jigsaw Instranet,
Activa Groupswim
Source: Dani Shomron, ISC, Jan 2010
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18. Cloud Business: Interesting Numbers
The Growing Cloud
…………………………
……..
Source Data
IDC Cloud search >$16 Billion .. Predicted to grow at
CAGR 27.4%
AWS Revenue @50% YoY Growth for past 5 years
Growth Current earnings ~ $500 Million
Rack Space Cloud Cloud product sales rose 85 per cent in
Earning the quarter, touching 43m ( Aug 2011)
Source: Divyanshu Verma, Dell R&D
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19. Growth of Rackspace Cloud Business
Quarters RackSpace Cloud Earning QoQ Growth % YoY %
Sep-10 26,763,000
Dec-10 31,415,000 17
Mar-11 37,107,000 18
Jun-11 42,954,000 16
Sep-11 50,673,000 18 89
RackSpace Cloud Earning
60,000,000
50,000,000
40,000,000
30,000,000
20,000,000 RackSpace Cloud Earning
10,000,000
0
http://ir.rackspace.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=221673&p=irol-calendarpast
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20. Discussion Segment
 Did you know?
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21. Did you know?
BYOC (CYA) projects: You can ...
 run an instance of Openstack on your laptop
 run an instance of Openstack on a couple of EC2
instances
 build a private cloud running Openstack in your lab
 24 cores
 6 TB disk
 48 GB memory
 Dual 1GBit network
 a KVM switch
 … and some snacks and few cups/cans of favorite drink
for ~ Rs. 1.5 to 2 Lakhs
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22. History and Timeline of Openstack
July 2010 July 2010 Nov 2010 Oct 2011 Apr 2012
OpenStack First public OpenStack Conference OpenStack Global
launches Design & OpenStack Essex Community grows
with 25+ Summit in Design Summit Fall to 160+ companies
partners San Antonio 2011
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23. Openstack Ecosystem
At present there are 160+ companies
in Openstack ecosystem
http://openstack.org/community/companies
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24. Discussion Segment
 Towards IaaS Reference Architecture
Source: Sumayah Alrwais, Indiana University
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25. Eucalyptus Architecture
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26. Network Configuration per node
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27. Feature Comparison
Feature/IaaS Eucalyptus Openstack Nimbus
Virtual Network VDE VDE & Open vSwitch VDE
VM Isolation VLAN VLAN Not available
System Security Firewall filters VPN access, SSH, VPN access, SSH, and
(Security groups), security groups and use of globus
SSH & WS-Security Cloudaudit certificate credentials
User Security User credentials User credentials using User’s X.509 public
provided thro’ web certificate authority key certificate which
interface for VPN access is provided to the
cloud
DHCP On the cluster On the network On the individual
controller controller node
Hypervisor Support XEN, KVM & VMWare XEN, KVM, UML, XEN & KVM
QEMU & Hyper-V
Storage System Warlus Object store (Swift) Cumulus
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28.  Thank you
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