Beyond frameworks Open source foundations for the enterprise

Eiki Hrafnsson, @EirikurH Co-Founder GreenQloud

● 5+ year old infrastructure software company

● CloudStack contributors since 2010

● Offices in Seattle and Iceland

● Proven track record of developing, deploying and running

highly scalable Public and Private clouds

● Makers of Qstack : the hybrid CMP for the mixed workload

needs of enterprises on any hardware

Who are we?

● Finance● Biotech● Gaming● Managed Services

Global enterprise customers in diverse industries

● Public Clouds● HPC based research● Telco● Media & Entertainment

Beyond frameworks Open source foundations for the enterprise

Or what it takes to make a cloud platform on open source frameworks that works…

Why open source infrastructure software

● Building on existing code - quicker to market

● Good hardware vendor support

● It’s free “as in speech”

● No vendor lock-in

● Good quality - OS defect rates can be 50x-150x lower than proprietary software (Forbes)

TelcosVPS

providers

AWSGoogle

Microsoft

Health careEducation

Government

FinancialAviations

Automotive

horizontal

vertical

local global

OS is everywhere in Infrastructure

VS

Simple…just pick a side?

VS

● Monolithic

● Upgradable (sort of)

● Partly pluggable

● Works

● Loosely coupled

● Upgradable?

● Very pluggable

● Works (sort of)

The End

It’s not that simple…

Then a whale came along…

And his friends…

Because applications matter too…

Container vs. VMs

Containers are isolated, but share OS and, where appropriate, bins/libraries

• “We need a private or hybrid cloud solution to stay competitive and compliant. Public clouds are disrupting IT and we can’t use them.“

• “Current private cloud software is not ‘human’ ready!”

• “We like VMWare but it seriously lacks self service capabilities.”

•“We have little or no oversight on who’s using what in our infrastructure, for what and for how long they have used it.”

• “We don’t know the true cost of our internal IT vs public cloud. Let alone per project, department or per person…”

IT infrastructure is hard

Modern IT challenges

● Infrastructure - Time, agility, transparency, show back,

monitoring, self service, upgradability…

● Cost & Security - Privacy, audit-ability, policies, charge-

back, single sign on…

● Applications - time to running, complexity, scaling,

performance, reuse, migration…

● Financial Management

● Reporting

● Leverage Current Assets

● Service Management

● Simplicity

● Operational Management

● Governance

● Standards

● User Management & Access Rights

Business objectives + the right technology = “ITBM”

● Great hypervisors ≠ private cloud

● Not deploying self service

● Not deploying automated metering and analytics

● Private to public cloud preparedness (single pane of glass hybrid)

● New workloads require new tech and industry compatible APIs

● Wrong technology - loosely coupled components lead to upgrade hell

6 Reasons why private cloud deployments fail (Gartner)

● A Hybrid infrastructure management platform that mixes

VMs, Baremetal, Containers and Object Storage

● Hypervisor agnostic KVM, VMware, Hyper-V

● A proprietary solution that uses best of breed open source

tech including CloudStack, CoreOS, OpenStack, Docker…

● For any workload in one or many zones/data centers

● A true single pane of glass in UI and API (EC2/S3)

● ITBM minded - not just for Ops and Dev

Qstack is…

• Body Level One

• Body Level Two

• Body Level Three

QStack features highlights

Deployable as a Private, Hybrid and Public Cloud

Self Service Portal for end users and admins

Built in metering and chargeback, custom reporting and event auditing

Resource isolation, quotas for departments, projects and users

QStack feature highlights

QStack features highlights

Industry best Bare metal support

Virtual machine management and Object Storage

Customizable and fully brand-able

QStack feature highlights

Opex pricing model

VMWare compatible, AWS APIs compatible

DEMO

Hybrid Cloud

Control of Data

Smarter utilization of hardware

Analytics / Charge-back

Self ServiceEase of use /

Fast deployment

APIs / Automation

Scale up and down elastically

No upfront investment

Burst-ability and migration to

any cloud

Virtual Private Clouds

Every major component of Qstack has roots in open source

It all started with…

Beyond frameworks…

● Current Open Source CMP are frameworks for success not products

● Too generic to fit - enterprise solutions make bets on assumptions

● Not yet designed for ITBM / to capture extensive enterprise needs

● There will be no proprietary CMPs without Open Source foundations

● But the integration of the necessary components is very hard and

out of scope for open source projects

Strengthening the compatibility of open source by testing it

against proprietary requirements.

Creditability through contribution

The backbone of open source is collaboration and contribution

Questions?

Thank you for coming!

Eiki Hrafnsson, @EirikurH Co-Founder GreenQloud