IBM Cloud OpenStack Services

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IBM Cloud OpenStack Services

Ashish Patel – Sr. Product Manager

October 2014


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Enterprises struggle to strike the right balance between Optimization and Innovation part of their IT Strategy

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Optimization

Systems of Record

Innovation

Systems of Engagement

of IT budgets spent

maintaining systems ~70% of new applications will be

deployed via the cloud 85%

Secure Data

Dynamic Infrastructure

Infrastructure Resiliency

Anywhere, Anytime

Elasticity and Automated

Application Resiliency


Extending the reach of the Enterprise requires a Hybrid Cloud that strategically brings the Public and Private Cloud together.

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Benefits

Fully customizable

Robust management

Scalable

Benefits

Rapid access

Low entry cost

Highly elastic

Hybrid Cloud

Value Proposition

Integrate internal assets with external

services to extend reach of enterprise

Time-to-value: Leverage new functionality

quickly, with better agility

Build-in an exit strategy for enterprises

Mitigation of risks associated with capacity

barriers and disasters

Control over legacy systems of records

Balance isolation, utilization, cost and

scaling efficiencies

Manage from single pane-of-glass


Introducing IBM Cloud OpenStack Services, your first block in building a hybrid cloud environment that can support your enterprise workloads.

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Gain flexibility for growth with a managed private cloud built on open standards

Managed infrastructure with

OpenStack as a service

Dev & Ops I need standard APIs so my on and off-premise assets are interoperable and scalable through automation.

Speed & Agility Sold by the “drink” so you can scale up or down to meet workload demands.

Infrastructure Elasticity and flexibility in adapting to workload needs, and a global footprint for customer reach.

Portability Reuse and transfer assets created in other OpenStack instances.

Business I need to focus on my core competencies by delivering applications and services for my clients.

Security & Performance Dedicated means no noisy neighbors contending for your resources.


With IBM Cloud OpenStack Services, you can have a managed private cloud environment set up at world-wide locations.

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Turnkey solution for workloads such as

hosted enterprise, analytics, and web and

mobile applications

Dedicated infrastructure on high-

performing, easily scalable SoftLayer bare

metal

IBM manages the OpenStack management

systems, network gateways, compute and

storage hardware and hypervisor. IBM managed

HA config.

24x7 support

99.95% SLA

Customer managed

…

… Hosted

Enterprise Big data / Analytics

Web & Mobile

OpenStack API OpenStack Horizon Portal

OpenStack cloud management software

Hypervisor Object

Dedicated bare metal servers, storage, network gateways at SoftLayer’s world-wide data centers

Internet

Network Gateways

VPN

User

Block


As you explore cloud solutions, you have identified key requirements that IBM Cloud OpenStack Services can meet.

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Available

OpenStack Icehouse provided as-a-service

Supported

SLA of 99.95 percent on OpenStack management system, network gateways,

customer infrastructure, and hypervisors

Managed

Security-rich

Responsive

Scalable

Control

Cost-effective

Around-the-clock support over telephone, online tickets, and forums

with less than 20 minutes response time

IBM specialists manage the infrastructure and OpenStack

management system

Dedicated compute, storage and network resources

Enterprise-level security from the data center through hardware

Designed to IBM’s security policies and standards

Continuous Vulnerability Scanning

Predictable performance with dedicated infrastructure

Hosted on SoftLayer high-performing bare metal servers

Quick setup time, not weeks or months standards

Expandable compute and storage resource pools

Exposed OpenStack APIs and Horizon self-service portal

Predictable pricing with monthly flat-rate subscription Avoid up-front capital investment

Open technology


IBM Cloud OpenStack Services runs on OpenStack Icehouse to provide you with an environment built on the most current open standards.

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Other OpenStack components included:

Heat – for pattern orchestration

Ceilometer – for reporting, metering

OpenStack experimental projects

are not enabled by default:

Trove

Sahara

*Optional

Block

storage

Network

Dashboard

Object

storage Compute Image

Provides

Auth for

Horizon

Swift*

Nova

Glance

Keystone

Neutron

Cinder

Provides

UI for

Provides

UI for

Provides

UI for

Provides

UI for

Provides

UI for

Provides

volumes for

Provides

Auth for

Provides

Auth for

Store disk files

in

Provides

Auth for

Provides

Auth for

Provides

Auth for

Provides network

connectivity for

Store

images in

Identity


Your OpenStack management environment is configured with redundancy for high availability and diversity in data paths for security.

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Network VPN & firewall device

Compute node

Compute node

Compute node …

10G network switch

Redundant infrastructure

(in high availability configuration)

OpenStack Controller

Object storage

Block storage

Internet VPN

4 x

10G

igE

Network VPN and firewall device

IBM Management data path

IBM Cloud

Management

System

Customer data path

User

8 TB, 16 TB,

32 TB, 64 TB, 96TB Block storage

Object storage

16 TB, 32 TB,

64 TB, 128TB

Compute nodes

Balanced

Memory Optimized

I/O Optimized

Management

System


Integrated Software-defined networking (SDN) provides a multi-tier network architecture that is dynamically configured and self-service.

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Virtual

domain 2

Virtual

domain 1

VM VM VM VM

Hypervisor

SDN vSwitch

VM VM VM VM

Hypervisor

SDN vSwitch

VM VM VM VM

Hypervisor

SDN vSwitch

Virtual network 1

Virtual network 2

Virtual network 3

Virtual network 4

Op

en

Sta

ck

Ne

utr

on

AP

Is

SoftLayer

IP Network

Automation

Application


You can access SoftLayer services over the public network to expand the capabilities of your solution.

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SoftLayer storage

– SoftLayer object storage

– SoftLayer backup

– SoftLayer NAS

– SoftLayer lockbox

– SoftLayer iSCSI

SoftLayer bare metal servers

SoftLayer dedicated hardware

like firewalls

SoftLayer load balancer

SoftLayer Cloudera, MongoDB,

CloudPlatform, Riak

SoftLayer monitoring

Internet gateway router establishes secure connectivity between IBM

Cloud OpenStack Services private cloud infrastructure and your other

servers running elsewhere in SoftLayer data centers worldwide.

Customer’s own

SoftLayer account

Object storage

service

Bare

metal servers

Other SoftLayer

services

Internet

Private cloud

In SoftLayer data

center

Internet network

VM 1

Internet gateway router

and firewall

VM 2


IBM Cloud OpenStack Services will be made available at the Softlayer data centers. Data Center availability dates for planning purposes only.

* Subject to available capacity and network availability

India

China

Tokyo

Hong Kong

Singapore

Melbourne

Seattle

San Jose

Los Angeles

Mexico City

Chicago

Houston

Toronto

Montreal

Brazil

New York City

Miami

London Frankfurt

Amsterdam

Paris

Sydney

Atlanta

Data center and Point of Presence

New Data centers in plan

Network Point of Presence

Denver

Dallas Washington D.C.


Source http://www.stackalytics.com/

Essex

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Core Contributors: 1 Technical Contributors: 2 Commits: 9 Blueprints: 0 Projects: 6

Folsom


100

Grizzly

270


Havana


380

Total IBMers

Key Contributions: Chinese Translation Nova Hygiene Storage Enhancements

Total IBMers

Key Contributions: Integration Tests Crowd Sourced Translation Membership Services

Key Contributions: API Stability Storage Enhancements 21% of Nova design features

Total IBMers

Total IBMers

Key Contributions: Enterprise Security Ceilometer Quality Assurance

Icehouse

380


Key Contributions: Quality Assurance Authentication & Security 15% of Compute features

Total IBMers

Juno


Key Contributions: Federated Identity Block Volume Replication Dashboard Enhancements

400 Total IBMers

IBM is number 2 in contributions to last releases

IBM believes an open, interoperable cloud is critical for flexible cloud deployments, and ultimately your success.

#2

http://www.stackalytics.com/


Using best practices and processes gained from years of experience managing and

operating security-rich data centers around the globe, IBM has been able to deliver real

value to our clients.1

2016

2015

2014 Payback in

5.5 months

2014 Three-year

ROI of

224%

User

productivity

6.5M $

IT staff

productivity

641K $

Business

productivity

199K $

Infrastructure

cost reduction

4.7M $

1IDC White Paper, sponsored by IBM, “Business Value of Managed Services,” doc #241428, June 2013.

IBM brings more than 30 years of experience in successfully delivering managed IT services for enterprises worldwide.


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Ashish Patel – Sr. Product Manager

October 2014


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Ashish Patel

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http://ca.linkedin.com/in/ashishipatel/

Find me at the IBM Booth at the OpenStack Summit in Paris Nov 3-5, 2014

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