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Enterprise + Cloud + Open

(Enterprise) + Cloud + Open

CIOs—don’t care about cloud

CIO IT Strategies

Ranking 20102011

Ranking of IT strategies CIOs selected as one of their top three in 2012.

2009 20082012

* New response categoryNumber = 2,338

Delivering business solutions 1 2 1 3 1Reducing the cost of IT 2 3 3 2 10Developing or managing a flexible infrastructure 3 1 8 11 11 Expanding the use of information and analytics 4 7 7 10 9Improving IT management and governance 5 4 6 4 7Improving business alignment and relationship 6 10 2 1 2Implementing mobility solutions 7 18 * * *Consolidating IT operations and resources 8 5 9 9 12 Implementing business process improvements 9 8 4 5 6Improving IT organization and workforce 10 6 10 8 3 Implementing Cloud (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) 11 9 * * *

• They need solutions that work now• They want to pick a winner• It’s not just about open source• It’s not even primarily about open source• It’s about speed • It’s about cost • It’s about alternatives (to 300lb gorillas)

Enterprise + (Cloud) + Open

Gartner defines cloud computing as "a style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided 'as a service' to customers using Internet Technologies."

Internet Technologies Services are delivered through use of Internet Identifiers, Formats, and Protocols.5

Metered By Use Services are tracked with usage metrics to enable multiple payment models.4

Shared Services share a pool of resources to build economies of scale. 3

Scalable and Elastic Services scale on-demand to add or remove resources as needed.2

Service Based Consumer concerns are abstracted from provider concerns through service interfaces1

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Obligatory Cloud Definition Slide

Private clouds? Yeah, get used to it

Gartner Data Center Conference Poll,

December 2011Will your enterprise be

pursuing a private cloud computing strategy by

2014? (N=150)

Yes78%

Maybe17%

No5%

Hybrid? Yeah, get used to itPartially

virtualized8%

Heavily virtualized

17%

Private cloud32%

Hybrid cloud47%

Gartner Data Center Conference Poll,

December 2011By 2015, how would you

describe your virtualization progress (choose the one most

applicable)? (N = 104)

Agility over cost

Gartner Data Center Conference Poll, December 2011:

What is your main driver in moving to private clouds?

(N = 155)

Agility/Speed59%

Quality3%

Cost21%

Business Alignment

11%

Enable Hybrid

1%

Don't Know2%

Defend IT3%

Gartner Data Center Conference Poll, December 2010

(N = 167)

What are your three biggest challengesin creating a private

cloud computing service?

Tech is easy, people and process are hard

Culture

Funding/chargebackmodel

Management andoperations processes

Business/customerrelationship

Service description andself-service interface

Technology

Politics

Not sure 11

31

36

40

46

56

62

80

First Choice Second Third

Sticking points

Shared resource pools

Service cost/price transparency

Buy-in anticipation of demand

Governanceand policies

Standard services, predefined architecture,

dynamic delivery

Businessjustification

and ROI

Enterprise + Cloud + (Open)

What is open

• Equality — The more everyone's rights and responsibilities are equal, the more open something is.

• Inclusiveness — The more parties who can participate in using and shaping something, the more open it is.

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What is open

• Licensing — conditions for use• Community — conditions for participation• Architecture — conditions for evolution

Evaluating openness

Applied to the Linux kernel

• Licensing — restrictions on distributing derivative works, but derivative works are more open

• Community — not equal or inclusive• Architecture — easily built upon, extended, etc.

"Open” is a feature

• Open source cloud technologies, such as hypervisors and cloud management platforms (CMPs),

• Open APIs, such as the Amazon Web Services (AWS) APIs and the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI)

• Open formats and protocols, such as the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and Cloud Infrastructure Management Interface (CIMI)

“Open” is a marketing term

• "The introduction of these open cloud products marks the first time any company has deployed a large-scale open source public cloud powered by…"

• "…extends support for open cloud ecosystem."

• "…sets itself apart from the cloud crowd by developing innovative and flexible Web and cloud services using open source software."

• "…an open cloud provides the interoperability that will free companies from being locked in to a single cloud vendor."

Open hype

• Interoperability and portability• Reduced lock-in• Freedom from commercial interests• Lower costs

Open reality: interoperability and portability are hard

• The API is not the implementation: Just because you can write to it doesn't mean it will actually work

• Wide adoption is required to even begin to consider portability or interoperability

Private Clouds

Public Clouds

Hybrid Clouds

Traditional IT

IT organization acting as a provider and broker

Open reality: there is always lock-in

• Visibility and control does not prevent dependency and lock in

• Real lock-in will be at the Cloud Management Platform — open source or commercial

Open reality: you cannot escape vendors

• Open means open to everybody, including vendors

• You still need: Support, integration, services, maintenance, and so on.

Open reality: open can be more expensive

• Capital expense often offset with greater operating expense

• The same goes for migration/transition between cloud providers or platforms

Enterprise + (Cloud + Open)

Any, some, all of a cloud can be “open"

Open source cloud technologies

• Hardware:- BackBlaze Storage Pods- Open Compute

• Hypervisors:- KVM- Xen

• Cloud Management Platforms:- CloudStack- Eucalyptus- OpenNebula- OpenStack

• Storage:- Ceph- OpenStack Swift- Riak

• Networking:- Floodlight OpenFlow Controller- Open vSwitch

• Configuration:- Cfengine- Chef- Puppet

Not Exhaustive List

Open APIs

• AWS• OpenStack• CloudStack• Eucalyptus• VMware vCenter• VMware vCloud• jclouds• Deltacloud

Not Exhaustive List

Open formats, protocols, standards• Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS)• Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)• Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC)• Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA)• Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)• European Telecommunications Standards Institute Technical Council Cloud

(ETSI TC CLOUD)• General Services Administration (GSA) • Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)• Organization for Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) • Open Grid Forum (OGF)• Object Management Group (OMG)• Open Cloud Consortium (OCC)• Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA)• The Open Group• Telecommunications Management (TM) Forum

Not Exhaustive List

Enterprise + Cloud + Open

• They need solutions that work now• They want to pick a winner• It’s not just about open source• It’s not even primarily about open source• It’s about speed • It’s about cost • It’s about alternatives (to 300lb gorillas)

This presentation, including any supporting materials, is owned by Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and is for the sole use of the intended Gartner audience or other authorized recipients. This presentation may contain information that is confidential, proprietary or otherwise legally protected, and it may not be further copied, distributed or publicly displayed without the express written permission of Gartner, Inc. or its affiliates.© 2012 Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Aneel Lakhani@aneel

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