01. Aaron Sullivan, Rackspace, visit to theCUBE at OPCSummit15. (00:30)
02. Rackspaces shares the advances using Open Compute.. (01:03)
03. Why do we need more real IP?. (03:02)
04. Rackspace Ironic delivers service giving you a bare metal image on a server.. (04:03)
05. Where do OpenStack and Rackspace intersect?. (04:46)
06. RackSpace has been involved with OpenPOWER before it even launched.. (06:03)
07. More companies are jumping on the software defined world.. (07:58)
08. Customers force Rackspace to evolve so they can create their own apps.. (10:30)
09. Is switching to app development a bad business model?. (13:34)
10. Scale is a must to deliver bigger, smarter with better service.. (16:01)
#theCUBE #OPCSummit #OpenCompute #SiliconANGLE #Rackspace
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Aaron Sullivan, Rackspace, at Open Compute Project Summit 2015 with John Furrier and Jeff Frick
@theCUBE
#ocpsummit
Aaron Sullivan, a distinguished engineer at Rackspace, Inc., believes there are still improvements to be made when it comes to cloud and the stack, and that open compute will spark those innovations. He sat down with theCUBE’s Jeff Frick and John Furrier at the recent OCP Summit to talk about Rackspace, the role of open compute in upcoming advancements, and the psychology of the in-the-trenches developer.
What Rackspace learned from building OnMetal
When Rackspace started to build the cloud-based OnMetal service, Sullivan described their thought process as a “need to design a service that gave people bare metal cloud at hyper cloud provisioning and security type speed sets.” Without a hypervisor, Sullivan explained that Rackspace had to “do things in the firmware of the server to replace some of those core functions and safety mechanisms.” While open compute engineer engagement helped Rackspace “get there,” Sullivan acknowledged, he also said that Rackspace “hit a wall.” There were limits to “where we could take open on the platform were were on at that point in time.”
In response to the difficulties Rackspace faced, Sullivan said he thinks cloud still has a ways to go: “We think the cloud is going to continue to evolve and need get vastly more efficient than where it is today.” The best way to accomplish this evolution, Sullivan suggested, is to get developers “deeper down into those systems.” And the best way to get developers deeper? “Just open the whole thing up.” he stated emphatically.
Psychology of the In-the-Trenches-Developer
When developers first get access to open compute, their “eyes are popping out of [their] heads,” said Sullivan. But as time goes on, openness becomes “the new normal” and developers begin to “feel much more empowered.” At the same time, though, “it changes the playing field,” he said, because “they know everybody else can be that much more creative and innovative as well.” Savvier competition means developers need to step up their game and begin looking for new potential.
The formation of a new stack
One area in particular where Sullivan sees such potential is in the stack — and not just the “software defined stuff,” he said. Sullivan sees “a new stack forming” as software defined network, software defined data center, and software defined storage” slowly become “real produts that people want to use.” But he sees room for “some really radical changes down at the bottom of that stack, in the chips and servers.” He expanded, saying, “if we rethink the stack all the way down, we can get a great deal more efficiency and flexibility than what we have today.” The “software defined stack wars today” are just a symptom of larger things to come, he suggested, like “servers that are extremely vertically integrated but also open.”
“We’re past the purpose-built start line.”
When it comes to the purpose-built trend, Sullivan said that he thinks “we’re past the start line.” The demand from customers and end users for “ever more efficiency and performance,” and for scale and ease of creating an app is “relentless.” This demand, he added, “forces you to evolve to stay relevant and keep giving customers what they want.” And part of that is workload-centric tuning.
In the past, he continued, it was easier to give customers higher performance with new generations of systems. Now that that’s “slowing down,” companies need to “keep looking for other ways to squeeze more value out of the system.” By offering purpose-built stacks crafted from open source technology, Sullivan said that it forces developers to “burn [their] boats.” There’s no going back in order to create value, instead, “I have go to do the next big thing.”
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Aaron Sullivan, Rackspace | Open Compute Project Summit 2015
01. Aaron Sullivan, Rackspace, visit to theCUBE at OPCSummit15. (00:30)
02. Rackspaces shares the advances using Open Compute.. (01:03)
03. Why do we need more real IP?. (03:02)
04. Rackspace Ironic delivers service giving you a bare metal image on a server.. (04:03)
05. Where do OpenStack and Rackspace intersect?. (04:46)
06. RackSpace has been involved with OpenPOWER before it even launched.. (06:03)
07. More companies are jumping on the software defined world.. (07:58)
08. Customers force Rackspace to evolve so they can create their own apps.. (10:30)
09. Is switching to app development a bad business model?. (13:34)
10. Scale is a must to deliver bigger, smarter with better service.. (16:01)
#theCUBE #OPCSummit #OpenCompute #SiliconANGLE #Rackspace
--- ---
Aaron Sullivan, Rackspace, at Open Compute Project Summit 2015 with John Furrier and Jeff Frick
@theCUBE
#ocpsummit
Aaron Sullivan, a distinguished engineer at Rackspace, Inc., believes there are still improvements to be made when it comes to cloud and the stack, and that open compute will spark those innovations. He sat down with theCUBE’s Jeff Frick and John Furrier at the recent OCP Summit to talk about Rackspace, the role of open compute in upcoming advancements, and the psychology of the in-the-trenches developer.
What Rackspace learned from building OnMetal
When Rackspace started to build the cloud-based OnMetal service, Sullivan described their thought process as a “need to design a service that gave people bare metal cloud at hyper cloud provisioning and security type speed sets.” Without a hypervisor, Sullivan explained that Rackspace had to “do things in the firmware of the server to replace some of those core functions and safety mechanisms.” While open compute engineer engagement helped Rackspace “get there,” Sullivan acknowledged, he also said that Rackspace “hit a wall.” There were limits to “where we could take open on the platform were were on at that point in time.”
In response to the difficulties Rackspace faced, Sullivan said he thinks cloud still has a ways to go: “We think the cloud is going to continue to evolve and need get vastly more efficient than where it is today.” The best way to accomplish this evolution, Sullivan suggested, is to get developers “deeper down into those systems.” And the best way to get developers deeper? “Just open the whole thing up.” he stated emphatically.
Psychology of the In-the-Trenches-Developer
When developers first get access to open compute, their “eyes are popping out of [their] heads,” said Sullivan. But as time goes on, openness becomes “the new normal” and developers begin to “feel much more empowered.” At the same time, though, “it changes the playing field,” he said, because “they know everybody else can be that much more creative and innovative as well.” Savvier competition means developers need to step up their game and begin looking for new potential.
The formation of a new stack
One area in particular where Sullivan sees such potential is in the stack — and not just the “software defined stuff,” he said. Sullivan sees “a new stack forming” as software defined network, software defined data center, and software defined storage” slowly become “real produts that people want to use.” But he sees room for “some really radical changes down at the bottom of that stack, in the chips and servers.” He expanded, saying, “if we rethink the stack all the way down, we can get a great deal more efficiency and flexibility than what we have today.” The “software defined stack wars today” are just a symptom of larger things to come, he suggested, like “servers that are extremely vertically integrated but also open.”
“We’re past the purpose-built start line.”
When it comes to the purpose-built trend, Sullivan said that he thinks “we’re past the start line.” The demand from customers and end users for “ever more efficiency and performance,” and for scale and ease of creating an app is “relentless.” This demand, he added, “forces you to evolve to stay relevant and keep giving customers what they want.” And part of that is workload-centric tuning.
In the past, he continued, it was easier to give customers higher performance with new generations of systems. Now that that’s “slowing down,” companies need to “keep looking for other ways to squeeze more value out of the system.” By offering purpose-built stacks crafted from open source technology, Sullivan said that it forces developers to “burn [their] boats.” There’s no going back in order to create value, instead, “I have go to do the next big thing.”
