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Cisco’s Application Development Transformation to Openstack - RetrospectiveKen Owens

May 13, 2014

CTO, Cisco Cloud Services

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Topics• Cisco’s Journey to the Cloud – The Beginning

• Application Centric – Really!

• InterCloud Journey

• Openstack & Cisco

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Cisco’s Journey to the Cloud – The Beginning

April 23, 2014

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Creating a sense of UrgencyCisco realized that Cloud is not about just technology but people

and process as wellOrganization impacts (cloud operations, connecting with the business, devopsProcess impacts (100% availability, dev, test, UAT, Production)Technology impacts (UX, Automation/Orchestration, Commodity, Complex and Slow to change/adopt

Cloud changes IT Perimeter Data Center Consumption Model SDLC

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Organize to Succeed Cloud Board

Form Cloud Organization Create Advisory Board Enable Change Agents and Innovate

Identify a big strategic opportunity and select strategic initiatives Webex & PartnersMove towards the goal Move with speed and agility

Recruit, Battle, and Remove barriers

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Application Centric – Really!

April 23, 2014

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It’s about the Application Enabling innovation and scale

Connecting to developers at the services and scale layers

Organizationally - enabling IT to transform into a business unit

Providing an exchange of application marketplace’s

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CRA Version 1.0

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InterCloud Journey

April 23, 2014

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Why Intercloud?• Original Goal: Enable Cisco Business Units traditional application stack

model to a cloud native or cloud ready SaaS model

• To accomplish this goal we needed to Build and Operate a Cloud

• A new consumption model emerged• Product BUs• Customers• Partners

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Cisco Cloud Strategy

Cisco Powered PartnerClouds

Cisco Cloud Services

Enterprise PrivateCloud

publicclouds

Enterprise Workloads

Native CloudApplications

Big Data &Analytics

Collaboration & Video

Meraki

Analytics

WebEx

Security

IOE Apps

HANA aaS

IaaSPaaS

vDesktop aaS

HCS

IaaS

PaaS

vDesktop aaS

MicrosoftSuite aaS

IntercloudFabric

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Cloud in a Box

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Consulting Services

Managed Services

Professional Services

Support Services

Applications

Analytics + Management + Orchestration

Services Platform

Infrastructure Platform

Infrastructure

Architecture Framework

DC Facilities Network Compute Storage

Data Service

Storage Services

Compute Services

Network Services

Security Services

Fulfillment & Resource Mgmt

Assurance & Monitoring Brokerage

Service Catalog

IdentityMgmt

Billing/Metering Entitlement

Foundational PaaS App Dev (Azure, OpenShift, CloudFoundry, etc)

APIC & InterCloud Fabric (Incl Policy Mgmt)

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App MarketplaceProcess Integration & Automation | Exchanges

Data Virtualization

Operational Analytics

App Integration

Data as a service

InterCloud Portal (SPG)

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Intercloud Service Architecture

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Openstack & Cisco

April 23, 2014

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Openstack & Cisco Contributions• We have come a long way but still more innovation and hardening

needed• Performance Improvements

• Identity – Keystone not using token expiration time; causing authenticate redundancy

• Messaging - Over utilized by the platform; need to improve efficiency of message queue; need to isolate and monitor to make it highly available

• Metering Improvements• Scaling of Ceilometer

• Adding Service Sensors to Ceilometer

• Rate limiting of events• Network Improvements

• Enabling Application Policy Control in Neutron

• Ipv6• Service Assurance Improvements

• Creating Openstack API Healthcheck

• Improving Image Management

Thank you.