Powering the Cisco Intercloud Service using OpenStack Trove

Editor's Notes

• #5: Customers are being asked to adapt to an increasingly competitive business environment by quickly developing and providing differentiated business services in an application-driven economy focused on online business services . At each turn, IT must leverage fast-moving technology transitions such as hybrid cloud, mobility, video, and big data to securely launch and evolve new services.
• #7: How does Cisco help you with these transitions? Cisco is accelerating and expanding its software practice in areas of differentiated offers & consumption models. At the end of the day, it is about driving biz outcomes & meeting our customers where they want to meet, how they want to define the relevance in our relationship. The 4 principles of our software strategy are User Experience First We are changing the way we solve our customer’s challenges by shifting from technology centric approach to user centric approach that is simple, intuitive and immersive for customers, partners and employees. It is an end to end approach to delight customers from the moment they download and try to the time of adoption and renewal. I will provide examples to illustrate this point. Project Squared - Project Squared provides a new workplace experience where teams can post messages, share content, and meet face to face in an open space accessible from nearly any device, anywhere in the world, any time. Connected Mobile Experiences (aka CMX) enables IT to create personalized mobile experiences for customers, partners and employees There are several ongoing initiatives in the company accelerating user experience: Smart Licensing, Smart Accounts, Software Velocity Engine, Global Customer Success, Net Promoter Scores and formalized processes to measure user experience Everything Cloud Ready Cloud enabling to give our customers choice – on premise, cloud and hybrid in their cloud journey at their pace By making more network functions and applications virtual… giving customers agility across infrastructure and applications.. Think Virtual security features like virtual firewalls, routers And by delivering more solutions that can be managed from the cloud.. Think Meraki, Intercloud fabric, Network Analytics And we offer workload mobility across clouds where there is no lock-in with any hypervisor/cloud provider.. Think Intercloud I will provide examples to illustrate this point Cisco Enterprise Cloud Suite, which we are announcing today, allows our customers can build and automate a hybrid cloud solution with support for any hypervisor/cloud provider and integrated across physical and virtual environments. Cisco Meraki solution provides our customers a choice to run a cloud managed network Simple and Open Cisco is developing application aware converged Infrastructure with built in automation tools to simplify IT operations Exposing intelligence by publishing more open APIs north/south bound Cisco is investing in “open source” platforms for developers Building an expansive developer ecosystem e.g. DevNet Open source: OpenStack, APIC-EM, which has reached FCS milestone, is the example to illustrate this point. With its 3rd party apps, it helps automates network provisioning and policy management across wired, wireless and WAN for campus and branch. Consumption Flexibility Cisco gives customers the choice to buy and consume infrastructure software that is flexibly tailored to their budget and investment strategy Customers can buy and manage Cisco infrastructure software as a perpetual license or term subscription, pre-paid or paid for as consumed, transacted for individually or under a multi-year Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) Cisco ONE Software is the perfect example to illustrate this point. It is the new and flexible way to consume networking and infrastructure software across WAN, Access and Data center. We will touch upon this shortly
• #9: Interactive Q. where is this happening in your account? Who cares about its success? independently deployable services MOA is an approach to developing a single application as a suite of small services, each running in its own process and communicating with lightweight mechanisms Here’s the “best of the best” in terms of the messages that really resonated with the crowd: Software that is not automatable is broken. Not being able to reproduce a production environment on demand is extremely risky. Get the computers to do the low value, automatable things (i.e. deployments) and let the humans focus on the high value work. If it hurts, do it more often (i.e. build and deploy). Any time a dev executes a repetitive task manually, all the servers get together late at night and laugh (always wondered why they looked so damn smug each morning). Everything – EVERYTHING – that is required for the app to be built and deployed must exist in source control. Get used to pushing into production regularly, it takes away the fear. Far too much emphasis is put on “it’s looking good” and “code complete” (downplays the risks yet to be faced by deployment). Every time you’ve done something for the third time, automate it! No test should remain un-automated that could be automated. Once you start automating, you find all sorts of ways of doing it better. Start pumping lorem ipsum text into change scripts and see if anyone notices (funny, I found a “If you are reading this I will buy you a coffee” statement in a standards doc last week; apparently I was the only one to spot it in the last year). Smells – sysadmins manually logging onto servers installing patches, prod server being thrown out the window (deployment to new one should be mundane), trying to “fix” an environment rather than just re-deploying. with TeamCity and Red Gate
• #13: Inability to Access Resources Across Any Cloud, with Security and Ease You need to worry about application compatibility and/or service provider lock-in
• #14: Striking an ideal balance Allow for adjusting and adapting to the environment, network/application needs and demands, in order to keep in balance