{"id":8324,"date":"2013-07-22T13:05:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T13:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?p=14743"},"modified":"2013-07-22T13:05:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T13:05:18","slug":"openstacks-third-birthday-a-recap-with-a-look-into-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/openstacks-third-birthday-a-recap-with-a-look-into-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenStack\u2019s Third Birthday \u2013 a Recap with a Look into the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Guest Post\u00a0By Nati Shalom, CTO and Founder of\u00a0<a href=\"\">GigaSpaces<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\nP { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link {  }\n--><\/style>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">OpenStack was first announced three years ago at the OSCON conference in Portland. I remember the first time I heard about the announcement and how it immediately caught my attention. Ever since that day, I have become a strong advocate of the technology. Looking back, I thought that it would be interesting to analyze why.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Is it the fact that it&#8217;s an open source cloud? Well partially, but that couldn&#8217;t be the main reason. OpenStack was not the first open source cloud initiative; we had Eucalyptus, then later Cloud.com and other open source cloud initiatives before OpenStack emerged.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">There were two main elements missing from these previous open source cloud initiatives: the companies behind the initiatives and the commitment to a true open movement. It was clear to me that a true open source cloud movement could not turn into an industry movement, and thus meet its true potential if it was led by startups. In addition, the fact that companies whose businesses run cloud services, such as Rackspace, brought its own experience in the field and a large scale consumer of such infrastructure such as NASA, gave OpenStack a much better starting point. Also, knowing some of the main individuals behind the initiatives and their commitment to the Open Cloud made me feel much more confident that the OpenStack project would have a much higher chance for success than its predecessors. Indeed, after three years, it is now clear that the game is essentially over and it is apparent who is going to win the open source cloud war. I&#8217;m happy to say that I also had my own little share in spreading the word by advocating the OpenStack movement in our own <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/openstack-israel.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>local community<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> which also grew extremely quickly over the past two years.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>OpenStack as an Open Movement<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/paul-holland\/1\/943\/a46\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Paul Holland<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, an Executive Program Manager for Cloud at HP, gave an <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/summit\/portland-2013\/session-videos\/presentation\/lessons-from-history-openstack-and-the-articles-of-confederation%0A\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>excellent talk <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">during the last OpenStack Summit, comparing the founding of the OpenStack Foundation to the establishment of the United States. Paul drew interesting parallelization between the factors that brought a group of thirteen individual states to unite and become the empire of today, with that of OpenStack. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14745\" alt=\"OpenStack1\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/OpenStack1.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"122\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Paul also drew an interesting comparison between the role of the common currency that fostered the open market and trade between the different states with its OpenStack equivalent: APIs, common language, processes, etc. Today, we take those things for granted, but the reality is that common currency isn&#8217;t yet trivial in many countries even today, yet we cannot imagine what our global economy would look like without the Dollar as a common currency or English as a common language, even if they have not been explicitly chosen as such by all countries.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14746\" alt=\"OpenStack2\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/OpenStack2.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"155\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As individuals, we often tend to gloss over the details of the Foundation and its governing body, but it is those details that make OpenStack an industry movement that has brought many large companies, such as Red Hat, HP, IBM, Rackspace and many others (57 in total as of today), to collaborate and contribute to a common project as noted in <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stackalytics.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>this report<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">. Also, the fact that the number of individual developers has been growing steadily year after year is another strong indication of the real movement that this project has created. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14747\" alt=\"OpenStack3\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/OpenStack3.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"133\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Thinking Beyond Amazon AWS<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">OpenStack essentially started as the open source alternative to Amazon AWS. Many of the sub-projects often began as Amazon equivalents. Today, we are starting to see projects with a new level of innovation that do not have any AWS equivalent. The most notable one IMHO is the <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/wiki\/Neutron\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Neutron<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> (network) and <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/wiki\/Baremetal\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>BareMetal<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> projects. Both have huge potential to disrupt how we think about cloud infrastructure. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Only on OpenStack<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">We often tend to compare OpenStack with other clouds on a feature-to-feature basis.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The open source and community adoption nature of OpenStack enables us to do things that are unique to OpenStack and cannot be matched by other clouds. Here are a few examples:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Run the same infrastructure on private and public clouds. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Work with multiple cloud providers; have more than one OpenStack-compatible cloud provider with which to work. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Plug in different HW as cloud platforms for private clouds from different vendors, such as HP, IBM, Dell, Cisco, or use pre-packaged OpenStack distributions, such as the one from Ubuntu, Red Hat, Piston etc. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Choose your infrastructure of choice for storage, network etc, assuming that many of the devices come with OpenStack-supported plug-ins. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">All this can be done only on OpenStack; not just because it is open source, but primarily because of the level of adoption of OpenStack that has made it the de-facto industry standard.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Re-think the Cloud Layers<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">When cloud first came into the world, it was common to look at the stack from a three-layer approach: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Typically, when we designed each of the layers, we looked at the other layers as *black-boxes* and often had to create parallel stacks within each layer to manage security, metering, high availability etc.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The fact that OpenStack is an open source infrastructure allows us to break the wall between those layers and re-think where we draw the line. For example, when we design our PaaS on OpenStack, there is no reason why we wouldn&#8217;t reuse the same security, metering, messaging and provisioning that is used to manage our infrastructure. The result is a much thinner and potentially more efficient foundation across all the layers that is easier to maintain. The new <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/wiki\/Heat\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Heat project<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> and <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.openstack.org\/wiki\/Ceilometer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Ceilometer<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> in OpenStack are already starting to take steps in this direction and are, therefore, becoming some of the most active projects in the upcoming Havana release of OpenStack.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Looking Into the Future<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Personally, I think that the world with OpenStack is by far healthier and brighter for the entire industry, as opposed to a world in which we are dependent on one or two major cloud providers, regardless of how good of a job they may or may not do. There are still many challenges ahead in turning all this into a reality and we are still at the beginning. The good news, though, is that there is a lot of room for contribution and, as I\u2019ve witnessed myself, everyone can help shape this new world that we are creating.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>OpenStack Birthday Events<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">To mark OpenStack\u2019s 3<\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">rd<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> Birthday, there will be a variety of birthday celebrations taking place around the world. At the upcoming OSCON event in Portland from July 22-26, OpenStack will host their official birthday party on July 24<\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">th<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">. There will also be a <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/IGTCloud\/events\/125492622\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>celebration in Israel<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> on the 21<\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">st<\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">, marking the occasion in Tel Aviv. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">For more information about the Foundation\u2019s birthday celebrations, visit their website at <\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>www.openstack.org<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11726\" alt=\"Nati-GigaSpaces\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Nati-GigaSpaces.png\" width=\"82\" height=\"81\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nati Shalom is the CTO and founder of GigaSpaces and founder of the Israeli cloud.org consortium.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=4354abce-cc54-4508-8227-fa8a0135bdac\" \/><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/XQPNfC3h2WU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post&nbsp;By Nati Shalom, CTO and Founder of&nbsp;GigaSpaces OpenStack was first announced three years ago at the OSCON conference in Portland. 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