1. OpenStack Design Summit: November 2010

2. Meet Mark Interrante
Finance, News, Sports
Mark.Interrante@Rackspace.comTwitter: @Interrante
Facebook: /Interrante
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Three start ups

3. Agenda
 Cloud Today / Trends
 Partnership with the
OpenStack Community
 Rackspace Directions

4. 1. Thank you!
2. We are proud to be a part of
this community!
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5. Cloud Drives Innovation
 Corporate Website
 Test and Development
 eCommerce
 Social Media site
 Marketing / Advertising /
Campaign site
 SaaS offerings
 Rich Media Site
 Collaboration Platform
 Gaming

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Why Pursue Open Source?
Not a software company
Standards are major
barrier to adoption
Unique position to launch

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Our Cloud as Test Bed forYou

8. • Support and service is what we sell
• Intend to help customers with:
• Traditional hosting
• Dedicated OpenStack
• Multi-tenant OpenStack
• Federation (with above and on premise)
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How Does Our Business Model Fit?

9. * 2008 vs. 2009 Net Revenue
118,000+ Customers
in 120 Countries
80% are
Cloud Customers
125% Growth
in 2009
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It’s Happening Today
CLOUDSITES CLOUDSERVERS CLOUDFILES

10. • Seemless cloud deployments where customers
want it – dedicated, multitenant, federation
• Common API
• Standardize interfaces to drive modularity
• Scale, scale and more scale
• Interoperability
between OpenStack
clouds
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Where Are We Going?

11. • Cloud Servers to OpenStack
Compute
• Development in progress
• Blueprints of needed features submitted
• Expected in mid-2011
• Our Cloud Files offer IS
OpenStack Object Storage today
• Commitment to run both
projects in production going
forward
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Our Plans with OpenStack

12. • VM specific
• Basic functionality
• Rescue functionality
• Provider functionality
• Snapshot specific
• On demand
• Scheduled
• To object storage
• To local storage
• Tools/Infrastructure
– Administrative API
– Monitoring
– Logging
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To Get There,We Need…

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Example Blueprints

14. • Configure NIC: allows for the reorder of the network cards
in the hypervisor.
• Dedicated Hosts: provides customers ‘private-like’
capabilities inside a public cloud.
• Flavors: packages of VCPU, disk space, and RAM to meet
requirements of different workloads.
• Package update change: provides ability to alter the default
location for package updates.
• Metrics: make RRD graphs for virtual machine interfaces
available.
These have not been submitted yet
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Rackspace Future Needs

15. • Complete portfolio: block storage, load balancing
• Web+ scale
• Dedicated Host Machines
• Authentication, Authorization, Accounting
• Support more Hybrid scenarios
• Federation
• XaaS
• Auto: scaling, deploying, monitoring, configuring
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Rackspace Future Needs

16. • Development resources
• Dozens of developers
• Multiple QA / testing
• Operations
• Reference deployment
• Help where we can
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Summary: Commitment to OpenStack