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THE SEARCH FOR CLOUD’S “GOD PARTICLE”

May 30, 2014

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BACKGROUND

Rackspace Chief Technologist

[email protected]

@chriswiggy

+44 (0) 7712 854462

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WHAT IS A “GOD PARTICLE”?


WHAT ABOUT THIS?


BOTH ARE WRONG…

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A GOD PARTICLE NEEDS THREE THINGS TO EXIST…

1 MASS CONFUSION


BOTH ARE WRONG…

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2 MEDIA HYPE


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BOTH ARE WRONG…

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IMPENDING DISASTER


THE REALITY

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SO WHAT ABOUT CLOUD?

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1 MASS CONFUSION



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2 MARKET HYPE



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3 IMPENDING DISASTER


THE STANDARD MODEL FOR CLOUD

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ADOPTION ? Cloud Higgs

DEMAND

Business Demand

A Time to Market

Developer Demand

S Self Service

Operations Demand

$ Cost

U Stability

P Performance

SUPPLY

VENDORS

EXPERTISE

O P E N S O U R C E P R O P R I E T A R Y C A P A B I L I T Y

R

F Service Providers

Software Providers

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C VMware

AWS

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T Global Availability

Trusted Suppliers

C

H Communities

Vendor Support

K

I Certification

Integration

E

X Proven Experts

Case Studies


WHERE IS CLOUD’S HIGGS BOSON?


THEORY #1

THE APPLICATION


APPLICATION FRAGILITY

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APPLICATION FRAGILITY

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SNOWFLAKES Complex & Unique

Will melt if touched…

CASTLES Safe & impregnable

Didn’t plan for gunpowder!

THE HYDRA Learns and adapts

Hard to kill!


TECHNOLOGY ABSTRACTION

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Mature Markets COMMODITISE… …Developers ABSTRACT Commodities ?


THEORY #2

INTEGRATION


ALL CLOUDS ARE NOT BUILT EQUAL

HOW MANY WOULD YOUR

BUSINESS USE?





ARE YOU BENDING CLOUD AROUND YOUR BUSINESS?

OR ARE YOU BENDING YOUR BUSINESS AROUND CLOUD


THEORY #3

OPERATIONS


ENABLING TIME TO MARKET

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IDEA CREATION VALUE

REALISATION

DELIVERY PIPELINE

TIME TO DELIVER BUSINESS VALUE

Benefit from Cloud Technology!


COMPETITION IS UNRELENTING

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EXPE

CTA

TIO

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TIME


TRADITIONAL RELEASE APPROACH


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EXPE

CTA

TIO

N

TIME

AREAS WHERE COMPETITORS MAY BE AHEAD



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EXPE

CTA

TIO

N

TIME

AUTOMATED TEST & DEPLOYMENT (CI/CD)


TRADITIONAL MODEL

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The Evolution of DevOps PHYSICAL WALL

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Developer Operations “I am going to build to whatever platform I want.”

“I’m not ops focused. Scalability isn’t something I think about.”

“How am I going to run this thing?”

“How am I going to scale this application?”

PHYSICAL WALL

Step 1 Step 2


DEVOPS APPROACH

30 Images courtesy of http://infotechfb.com/blog/the-three-ways-of-devops/


SUMMARY

Our theories for Cloud’s Higgs Boson:

1.  APPLICATION 2.  INTEGRATION 3.  OPERATIONS Which one is right…?

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ALL OF THEM!


APPLICATION READINESS?

INTEGRATION REQUIRED?

OPERATIONAL MATURITY?

WHATS YOUR BLEND?


WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR OPENSTACK?

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What Are We Doing to Support:

APPLICATIONS?

INTEGRATION?

OPERATIONS?

VENDORS

CONTRIBUTORS

OPERATORS


MORE THAN A CLOUD COMPANY

WE PROVIDE SERVICES FOR EVERY STEP OF YOUR JOURNEY

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JUST STARTING?

RACKSPACE ADVISORY SERVICES

NEED SERVICES?

RACKSPACE HYBRID CLOUD

NEED SUPPORT?

RACKSPACE DEVOPS AUTOMATION SERVICE

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THE SEARCH FOR CLOUD’S GOD PARTICLE - Meetup · 2014. 6. 5. · the search for cloud’s “god particle” may 30, 2014 . rackspace ... a god particle needs three things to exist