New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

1. Open Source: Going Mainstream and Powering the Cloud CUNY Technology Day December 14, 2010 New York City Open Source Solutions Lab New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

2. Panel Members • Dr. Ted Brown -- Executive Director, CUNY Institute for Software Design and Development (CISDD) • Matt Jamison -- Senior Solutions Architect, Red Hat • Richard Marine – Senior Account Executive, Northeast Education and Government Accounts, Red Hat New York City Open Source Solutions Lab New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

3. Agenda Agenda • OSSL overview and functionality • Open source software (OSS) in education • OSS and the cloud today • State of the cloud tomorrow • Q&A New York City Open Source Solutions Lab New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

4. NYC Open Source Solutions Lab (OSSL) • Joint Project of CUNY, Red Hat, Intel and HP • Available to examine and test open source solution stacks • On site at the CUNY Graduate Center or via VPN • No cost to user community • All new, cloud ready HP/Intel hardware • Simple reservation process: • http://www.cisdd.org/ossl/?q=request New York City Open Source Solutions Lab New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

5. Open Source in Education: The State of the State • Becoming pervasive for many reasons: • Interoperability is enhanced—open standards • Cloud enablement is simplified • TCO is proven • Application developers release in Linux first • Eliminates vendor lock-in • A few examples - moving to Open Source • CUNY – migrated from Unix • NYU – migrated from Unix • Yale – migrated from Unix and proprietary middleware • Harvard – migrated from Unix and LDAP • UCONN – migrating from Unix, proprietary virtualization • Cornell – migrating from Unix New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

6. Why Virtualization? Why Cloud? • IT Infrastructure is at a breaking point: • 67% of IT budgets slashed in 2009 • 85% of computing capacity idle • 70% of IT budget spent maintaining legacy infrastructure, not delivering new capabilities • 50% of CIOs say they're understaffed • 46% of IT execs say meeting SLAs “more or much more” difficult and costly • 14% decline in IT execs who say they are becoming “more strategic” to their organization New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

7. An “Official” Cloud Definition “...a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidlyprovisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” - National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) New York City Open Source Solutions Lab New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

8. A Report Worth Reviewing • State of Public Sector Cloud Computing • May 20, 2010 • Vivek Kundra • Federal Chief Information Officer • http://www.cio.gov/documents/StateOfCloudComputingReport-FINALv3_508.pdf New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

9. Characteristics of the Cloud • On-demand self-service • A consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, as needed automatically without requiring human interaction with each service’s provider. New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

10. Characteristics of the Cloud (Cont) • Resource pooling • The provider’s computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to consumer demand. ….Examples of resources include storage, processing, memory, network bandwidth, and virtual machines. New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

11. Characteristics of the Cloud (cont) • Broad network access • Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or rich client platforms (e.g., mobile phones, laptops, and PDAs). New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

12. Characteristics of the Cloud (cont.) • Rapid elasticity • Capabilities can be rapidly and elastically provisioned, in some cases automatically, to quickly scale up and rapidly released to quickly scale down. To the consumer, the capabilities available for provisioning often appear to be unlimited and can be purchased in any quantity at any time. New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

13. Characteristics of the Cloud (cont.) • Measured service • Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource use by leveraging a metering capability at some level of abstraction appropriate to the type of service (e.g., storage, processing, bandwidth, and active user accounts). Resource usage can be monitored, controlled, and reported providing transparency for both the provider and consumer of the utilized service. New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

14. Types of Clouds Software-as-a-Service(applications, processes, and information) SaaS Cloud service types Platform-as-a-Service(virtualization-optimized middleware) PaaS Infrastructure-as-a-Service(virtualized servers, storage, networks) IaaS New York City Open Source Solutions Lab New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

15. Enter Cloud + Proprietary APIs But beware: “With the level of industry hype about cloud computing, executives may get the impression that adopting cloud-based offerings is a sure path to business benefit. As a result, architects may be asked to create a separate strategy specifically for cloud. This type of siloed technology strategy is bad practice.” - Randy Heffner, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research Top Priority For Cloud Planning: Integrate Cloud Computing Into Existing Architecture Strategies; Forrester Research; Randy Heffner; May 18, 2010 New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

16. Clouds (can) increase productivity • Business processes • Different workloads • Audit requirements • SLAs • Compliance • Latency • Bandwidth • Security procedures • Risk mitigation • Legal exposure • Legacy apps • Staff skills • Competitive differentiators • Uptime needs • Cost focus • Industry partnerships • Legal requirements • Government mandates ≠ New York City Open Source Solutions Lab New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

17. OSS and the Cloud Today • Open source tools are prime enablers of Cloud • Linux virtualization (KVM) • DeltaCloud (Apache Foundation) • Modern open standards chip technology is vital (Intel) • Multi-core, multi-thread • Increasing processing speed • Increasing RAS New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

18. Portability Matters “In our extensive research, we've found that open APIs and interoperability are essential to customers considering the cloud... With Cloud Foundations, Red Hat is on the right track with cloud by accelerating interoperability and portability to prevent cloud lock in.” - Gary Chen, Research Manager, Enterprise Virtualization Software, IDC New York City Open Source Solutions Lab New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

19. Portable & Open Services New York City Open Source Solutions Lab New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

20. Open Programming Models New York City Open Source Solutions Lab New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

21. Proprietary Cloud APIs • Vendors seek new methods of lock-in • Weigh down the benefits of open source and cloud enablement New York City Open Source Solutions Lab New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

22. And Remember… Both are made of “fabric”. Choose wisely. New York City Open Source Solutions Lab New York City Open Source Solutions Lab

23. Questions/Comments For more information or questions: Email: redhat-solutions@dlt.com Phone: 877-RHAT-DLT Website: www.dlt.com/Redhat/Cloud About DLT Solutions As Red Hat’s Largest Government Reseller, DLT Solutions helps government agencies overcome real-world challenges through its best-in-class information technology products and superior services. From open source and virtualization to cloud computing and more, DLT provides the most trusted and innovative Red Hat solutions available to federal, state, and municipal governments. Learn more at www.dlt.com/redhat