Government ICT 2.0 - Removing The G-Cloud Lock In
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The document discusses preventing lock-in when using cloud services through the use of open standards. Open standards allow flexibility to choose between vendors and ensure interoperability. Without open standards, vendors have control and customers face issues changing providers. The document recommends insisting on open source, open standards, and open APIs to avoid lock-in and promote choice, productivity, agility, and cost control for customers.
Government ICT 2.0 - Removing The G-Cloud Lock In
- 1. Removing the G-Cloud lock in Government ICT 2.0 - Seminar Session One 16th September 2014 Jeremy Brown – Head of Middleware UK&I, Red Hat [email protected] @tenfourty
- 2. Lock-In?
- 3. A Historical Perspective on Lock-In in IT
- 4. So, How to Prevent Lock-In? 1980’s: Standards! 1990’s: FOSS – Free Open Source Software
- 5. And then comes The Cloud Cloud will be the ultimate lock-in Back to the Future w lock-in
- 6. The Broken Way : without open standards ● The vendor defines the level playing field ●Direct Interoperability ●NDA, IPR ● 1:1 deals, no openness ●Closed market ●No verification possible by third party
- 7. Open standards required! Open Standards allow you the flexibility to make the best choice for your business
- 8. The Better Way : with open standards The Standard defines the level playing field Open market 1:n relation Implementations can be verified by third parties
- 9. What is an open standard? A standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it, and may also have various properties of how it was designed (e.g. open process). Benefits of open standards ● Application & platform independence ● Long-term access ● Architectural integrity CHOICE!!!!
- 10. Discussion: How is open source different from open standards?
- 11. No Lock-In on where - On-Premise, Hosted, Hybrid ● Cloud should provide flexibility in where applications can run ● Hosted Cloud ● Needs Secure, Fine-grained, Multi-tenancy ● On-Premise Cloud ● Should run on choice of Hypervisors ● Hybrid-Cloud ● Leverage benefits of scale when needed OpenStack Amazon vSphere RedHat Enterprise Virtualization
- 12. No Lock-Out on Operational Model ● You have real-world restrictions that impact Cloud ● Governance, Compliance, Ent. Arch Standards, ITIL, Security, etc. ● Your Cloud must support different Models
- 13. Benefits of No Lock-In o Productivity • Let Developers work the way they want to work o Agility • Move and Scale applications to adapt to changing business conditions o Survivability • Minimize the impact of hosting providers o Accountability • Control Costs
- 14. Insist on Open o Open Source o Open Standards o Open APIs
- 15. Open Hybrid Cloud OPEN STANDARDS Private Cloud (Customer Datacenter) Public Cloud (Amazon, Rackspace, Google, etc.) Hybrid Cloud Fact: All customer & service provider data centers have HETEROGENOUS technology from MULTIPLE vendors
- 16. Open Platform ● Open Standards are essential for the success of the Open Hybrid Cloud. ● Open Standards form the links between the Datacenter, Private Cloud, and Public Cloud. ● Open Standards are the DNA of Red Hat and JBoss. ● Adopt Open Standards whenever possible. ● Create new technology and drive to standards when possible.
- 17. Recommendations for an open cloud ● (open) Standards for interoperability between all Key Reference Points ● Modular approach that offers fair competition, regardless of development model and license ● Reusability is best when the interfaces are stable and the upstream projects have proven to be sustainable ● Not all reference points can be standardised in this way ● Identify gaps, work with vendor/community ecosystem, move forward ● Identify Lock-In as risk on all Key Reference Points ● Closed APIs prohibit choice and Open Source participation ● Drive up cost ● Complicate interoperabilty
- 18. The UK Government already gets it... https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs
- 19. Though I prefer this headline! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/23/uk_government_officially_adopts_open_document_format/
- 20. YOUR MOTHER WAS RIGHT IT'S BETTER TO SHARE
- 21. SO LETS DO THE SAME FOR THE G-CLOUD
- 23. Goals of the Red Hat model ● Bring Open Source Software to the enterprise ● Catalyst of Open Source Communities ● Faster technology innovation ● Open Standards ● Better quality ● Better price/performance ● Alignment to customer needs