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What is OpenStack

Programmable infrastructure that lays a One platform for virtual machines, containers
common set of APIs on top of compute, and bare metal
networking and storage
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OpenStack Cloud Models

THERE’S A GLOBAL SHIFT TOWARD CLOUD. THE BENEFITS: AGILITY, SCALABILITY, DECREASED HARDWARE COSTS.

Public cloud: shared resource, Private Cloud: dedicated to a Hybrid cloud: a mix of private
“pay-as-you-go” models are single user. Can be hosted private cloud and public cloud
common. OpenStack public cloud cloud in a vendor’s data center or orchestrated together to meet
is available in 60+ datacenters yours, or remotely managed company needs
globally. private cloud.

3 CLOUD MODELS
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OpenStack is open source

HERE’S WHY THAT MATTERS

OPENSTACK PRINCIPLES

Choice & control: ability Ability to contribute or

1 OPEN SOURCE
to choose between and directly influence the
switch vendors roadmap
2 OPEN DESIGN

3 OPEN DEVELOPMENT

Widely adopted open Part of a vibrant community

source APIs are the new to share knowledge and help 4 OPEN COMMUNITY
standards each other
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Primary business drivers

#1 avoid vendor lock-in
#2 accelerate innovation
#3 operational efficiency
Source: User Survey, April 2017
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Which industries choose OpenStack?

RETAIL/E-COMMERCE FINANCIAL TELECOM ACADEMIC/RESEARCH

ENERGY AND MANUFACTURING INSURANCE ENTERTAINMENT

See more at
openstack.org/user-stories
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What runs on OpenStack?

TELECOM/NFV HPC ENTERPRISE APPS BIG DATA

86% of telecoms say CERN runs one of the largest Comcast powers customer- Banco Santander runs 1,000
OpenStack is important to OpenStack clouds to process facing and internal compute nodes of OpenStack
their business; many are using data from the Large Hadron applications and services for in data centers across the
OpenStack to virtualize their Collider, giving physicists the both production and world, and uses Cloudera on
networks and implement edge resources they need to development environments OpenStack to power fraud
computing to achieve agility unleash the secrets of the with OpenStack. detection.
significant cost savings. universe.

MULTI-CLOUD E-COMMERCE DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY WEB SERVICES

DigitalFilm Tree uses Walmart moved their global e- Adobe Digital Marketing uses Workday moved their on-
interoperable OpenStack commerce platform to OpenStack to convert their demand software services
private and public clouds to OpenStack, powering desktop, existing virtualization from static, virtualized
process thousands of hours of mobile, tablet and kiosk users. environment into self-service environments to a fully elastic
raw footage into a one-hour IT. and scalable platform based
TV show. on OpenStack.
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History of OpenStack
2010 2014 2016 - April 2017

NASA + Rackspace OpenStack Marketplace opens to Half the Fortune 100 run OpenStack emerges as one
develop the basis of showcase maturing ecosystem; OpenStack; Certified OpenStack platform for containers,
OpenStack “Juno” release seen as enterprise grade Administrator program launched VMs and bare metal

2015 2016
2012
OpenStack Powered China booms; 86% of
OpenStack Foundation telecoms say OpenStack
established interop certification
launched important to their business
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About the OpenStack Foundation

Maintain infrastructure for development & communication

Coordinate software releases

Trademark and legal management

Host summits & development meetings

Promote the use of open source infrastructure projects

openstack.org/foundation
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OpenStack Foundation Sponsors

PLATINUM MEMBERS

GOLD MEMBERS
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The OpenStack Community

81,000+
MEMBERS
187
COUNTRIES
670+
ORGANIZATION
S
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How does the community collaborate?

GLOBAL OPENSTACK SUMMITS VOTING ON REPRESENTATIVES HACKATHONS

CONTRIBUTING CODE, DEVELOPER REGIONAL OPENSTACK DAYS &

TOPICAL MAILING LISTS PLANNING SESSIONS LOCAL MEETUPS
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Cross-community collaboration
OpenStack integrates with a number of other technologies, including many popular open source projects, enabling users to combine them with
OpenStack.

Containers PaaS NFV Provisioning

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OpenStack’s software
releases
NEWTON OCATA PIKE QUEENS

October 2016 February 2017 August 2017 February 2018

Releases happen In development

every 6 months

Most clouds run one of the two most recent releases

Learn more about the releases at openstack.org/software
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The OpenStack Framework

WHAT GETS
CALLED
OPENSTACK?

USING THE SAMPLE

CONFIGURATIONS

CORE SERVICES &

OPTIONAL SERVICES
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It costs less and does more

“In all private cloud-based applications…we “TD Bank...experienced a 25% to 40% costs savings
expect approximately 70% of cost savings as on their platforms and virtual machines over their
compared to classical IT solutions.” previous solution by deploying OpenStack.”

–Holger Urban, Volkswagen

–Forbes, “3 Reasons Why An
OpenStack Private Cloud May
Cost You Less Than Amazon
Web Services”
Watch this session:
Elephant in the Room: What's the
TCO for an OpenStack Cloud?
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OpenStack is recognized for its security

“The OpenStack community is taking

security seriously…”
openstack.org/software/security
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Gaining OpenStack skills

Train who you have Certification

Training Certified OpenStack Administrator

Take by 1800+ people since April
openstack.org/marketplace/training/ 2016

openstack.org/coa
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Next Steps
How you can get started in
OpenStack…
1 JOIN THE FOUNDATION: OPENSTACK.ORG/JOIN

2 LEARN HOW TO CONTRIBUTE: OPENSTACK.ORG/COMMUNITY

READ THIS: DESIGNING, MIGRATING AND DEPLOYING

3
APPLICATIONS
ATTEND AN EVENT IN YOUR AREA:
4
OPENSTACK.ORG/EVENTS
MORE RESOURCES:
5
OPENSTACK.ORG/SOFTWARE/START/