MAY 6, 2012: Interop Las Vegas "Why Open Clouds Are Winning"

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Why Open Clouds are Winning

(and what you should be doing about it tomorrow morning)

May 5th, 2012

Troy Angrignon, VP Sales & Business Development, Cloudscaling@troyangrignon

[email protected]

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“The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.”

- William Gibson

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Cloud was invented by the internet leaders


Disruption Disruption Disruption

EnterpriseComputing

"Client-Server"

CloudComputing

"Web"

MainframeComputing

"Big Iron"

1960 1980 2000 2020

Cloud Computing ... Disrupts

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They moved from proprietary software to open source software

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They automated everything

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They stopped treating servers like pets and treated them more like cattle.

attrib: Bill Baker, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft

bowzer.company.com web001.company.com

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Differentiation, business value, and even uptime moved up the stack

Infrastructure

Platforms

Applications

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Meanwhile...existing enterprise jumped on the bandwagon and launched their clouds

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Enterprise IT Cloud Next-generation IT Cloud

APPS&

PLATFORMS

INFRA

We ended up with two different types of clouds.Each serves a different set of applications

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Your developers have had to go rogue to get the platform they need for their apps

On-Premise

ExternalAWS

orRAX

SavvisTRMK

Sungard

Enterprise Private Cloud

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Open Clouds are the missing pieceof the infrastructure

On-Premise

ExternalAWS

orRAX

SavvisTRMK

Sungard

Enterprise Private Cloud

Open Clouds

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Characteristics of open clouds

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“Exponential growth looks like nothing is happening, and then suddenly you get this explosion at the end.”

- Ray Kurzweil

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AWS’ growth is difficult to comprehend

http://www.cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/amzn-other-revenue-in-2011/

1/3 of all internet users1% of consumer internet

http://blog.deepfield.net/2012/04/18/how-big-is-amazons-cloud/

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"Cloud service provider Rackspace Hosting's (RAX) first-quarter per-share profit is expected to jump 80%, while revenue rises 31%...One

key to Rackspace's success in the cloud market, analysts say, is its OpenStack software

initiative…"

May 5, 2012, Posted 08:05 AM ET

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Rackspace is killing it


155+ member companies2,600 members

100,000+ downloads

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OpenStack is a run-away success


The Open Cloud Ecosystem is so much richer today than it was even just a year ago!

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Monday Morning Checklist

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Fire yourself from “keeping the lights on”Go steal some budgetFind rule-breakers and give them a raiseFind a good partnerBuild an open cloudLearn, fail, and learn moreBuild a team of pirate rebelsShelter them from the organizational B.S.Watch them thrive and drive business value


“Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”

- George Herbert, Poet1593-1633

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Troy AngrignonVP Sales & Business Development

@[email protected]

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MAY 6, 2012: Interop Las Vegas "Why Open Clouds Are Winning"