Cloud = Application Enablement + Innovation ≠ IaaS

Ken Owens, CTO, Cisco Cloud Services

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Cloud ≠ IaaS

•Complexity•Commodity•Focus

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Why Compromise?

•Would you fly in this?

• Scale• Reliability• Security

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Platform for Enablement & Agility

•Leverage ready built components

•Applications are not VM Templates

• Configuration Management tools are Complex & Brittle

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Cloud = Application Enablement + Innovation

• Service-oriented architectures and APIs aren’t new ideasArt to building platforms comprised of loosely coupled services

• Its all about the Data, Data Virtualization, & Data MobilityBuilding multi-tiered data architectures that assume scale and unstructured data

• Data Centers and cloud providers become an interconnected and federated platform of deployable services and containers that are distributed and loosely coupled

• Open-Source is mainstream, driving innovation, and now is its 4th generation of tools to tackle scalability, performance, and diagnostics

• Devops is no longer shadow IT, it is the way for application development, integration, and deployment - Period

Cisco Use Cases

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Guiding Principles

• Open standard foundational cloud platform

• Services building blocks at all layers of the stack to enable developers

• Everything available “as a Service” through both APIs and UI

• Single platform across all Data Centers– Continuous deployment model– Any app deployable to any DC globally

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Collaboration

• All Development on Openstack, Cloud Foundry, and Openshift

• Model– Application Independent– Application Integrated– Application Containerized

• Cloud Foundry– Abstracting application deployment,

health checking, application routing, and monitoring

– Partnerships and Ecosystem are key to enabling innovation

– Flexibility• Test, try, fail, pivot

• BOSH– Does not work in all providers– CF is just another app

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ACI - GROUP-BASED POLICY ACROSS OPENSTACK

Any existing network plugin

ACI Fabric

Compute Networking Storage

Dashboard Automation

Group-Based Policy Model Extensions

Neutron Subgroup Members

GROUP POLICY MODEL

Thank you.