 Is the audio working? Hold out your hand, Frida. Can you see anything? Nothing. There's nothing. There are markings. It's some form of elvish. I can't read it. There are a few who can. The language is that of Mordor. Mordor? In the common tongue it's... That was not supposed to happen. Let me see if I can bring it to the end. Mordor? In the common tongue it says one ring to rule the Mordor. One ring to... One ring to bring darkness. Find the thing. This is the one ring. Okay. Hi everybody and thanks for coming out this morning. My name is Iris Finkelstein-Saghi. I'm with CloudBand from Nokia Software and I'm going to attempt to draw some comparisons between Lord of the Rings and an open and unified infrastructure and talk about some of the thought processes that are leading us to emphasize this topic of unified and converged infrastructure as the path forward for our customers. So why is all this coming about? Why are we seeing this trend now? Why do we think that it's important as we go forward? So we like to say that the world now works in digital time. Well digital time means that everything is faster, everything is stronger. Digital time means that things are more immediate and intuitive and when you connect people and technology together then you're boosting productivity and you're bringing services to market faster and that's one of the concepts that is inherent in a unified infrastructure. So in a digital time the cloud's infrastructure is constantly evolving and one of the things that we're seeing here is the transformation of virtualization since the early days until today and we're also seeing or feeling the change that's going about in the world of DevOps and we're also seeing more about the trends of flexibility and openness and automation and a lot of other things that we're going to discuss. So first of all let's break down these concepts a little and talk about virtualization. So virtualization is a given everybody is virtualized, everything is virtualized. You know I have sales people coming up to me saying you know I need to convince this customer I need to tell them why they need to move to the cloud I need to tell them why they have to be virtualized and I tell them guys that's not it, it's not there. If they don't know they need to move to to need to move to virtualized by now then something's wrong with the way that you're selling. Everything is virtualized now let's get them to the next step and make it move forward. So virtualization is also transformed and the evolution of virtualization started with monolithic software so proprietary apps running on proprietary machines evolving all the way to decomposed apps and microservices and containers and so on starting with servers and going on to an open and shared infrastructure and moving all the way even to serverless frameworks and of course going back to the days of manual operations and moving to a world now in which everything is automated and everything is flexible and there's no usage that we're bringing across. And when we're talking about monolithic then one of the things that are sort of driving us towards this path towards microservices and containers and a more unified world is the horizontal infrastructure and the more horizontal we go the more we are ready for deployments in which a horizontal infrastructure will support all types of workloads and all types of services so we concluded that virtualization is a given but obviously DevOps is also a given and when we're talking about DevOps I like to talk about something I call the great migration or the great merging of the CTO and CIO rule so when the CTO and the CIO are merging then what we're seeing actually is that the network is becoming software so the network is made up of SDN and NFV and the network platform is turning into a virtualized data center and the core network is turning into an all IP network and the CTO role which once was more focused on the network is now more focused on the platform so these roles are merging and the lines are blurring and obviously I think that only a woman could do these kind of things but when this person when this new role is emerging then they need to start thinking of all of these new aspects that are coming about and they need to start working on new ideas to support all of this unification that's happening both in the infrastructure and in the DevOps world so again when we're thinking about the needs and requirements from these two different personas the CTO and the CIO then from the CIO role they couldn't care less about multi-tenancy and I'm exaggerating of course yes they couldn't care about multi-vendor and downtime and security while the CTO role cares dearly about all of these things and they care even more about performance planning and scaling and so on and when you bring enterprise applications into the mix well they're actually sort of a mix of the CIO and the CTO role so with the CIO hat on then these enterprise guys they're going to want to steal bandwidth and move into resources from the telco world when they have an ad hoc need when they have their telco hat on then they have stringent security requirements and they have stringent robust needs and so they're sort of mixing up these two roles and in this new world this new persona this new CTO-CIO role they're expected at least from the telco world they're expected to come up with new technology based ideas that will bring differentiation to their organizations and these telco organizations today they're looking to what's the word I'm looking for they're looking to unify basically so they need to run different types of workloads they need to run their standard vaulting networks on NFV but they're also looking to support their radio large-scale radio networks they're looking to roll out 5G they need to support the high bandwidth for IoT and they even need to support their edge devices and they need to do all this with the least amount of resources bringing down TCO and alpax of course so we come to the how how is all this going to happen what are the elements the basic elements behind a unified infrastructure so let's simplify it and break it down to the essential elements and sorry let's go back for a second so breaking it down into four very basic elements universal applicability, security serviceability and operability and we'll talk a bit about each one of these so universal applicability this is really a fancy word for openness so we're talking about a solution level delivery you want your customers to benefit from the rapid pace of open source innovation but you also want them to be telco grade and 5G ready and in order to do all of this together you need a vendor who has experience a lot of experience with the open source community and knows how to reach it from the source really you're looking at interoperability and we're talking about multi-vendor operability so you need your system to work with any VNF from any vendor try to work with any VNFM and your VNFM to work with any NFVO and all this across different organizations and different vendors and different types of solutions and you want it to be agnostic to any hardware and to be certified in all of these types of hardware and again as I said in the beginning we're talking about working directly with the community and receiving the code directly from upstream and you're doing that to help your customers prevent lock-in and you're delivering without a third party vendor in the middle so you're cutting out the middleman delivering to your customers with time to market lowering TCO and basically optimizing the value chain the second element is all about security so you want a solution that is designed bottom up for security with mandatory code inspections for any updates and it has to be compliant with regional and localized key security protocols again built in inherent to the solution you also want a solution that has no single point of failure that automates encryption protocols and provides high availability and you want redundancy in your management functions together with load sharing and also you want a peace of mind that comes from automated anomaly detection with layers upon layers of built-in safeguards the third topic is all about serviceability so when we say serviceability it's all about the easy and friendly use of your network so we're talking about across-the-board monitoring and analytics that allow you to identify and fix failures in real-time and that are complexity resistant when I say complexity resistant I mean let's talk about a multi-vendor deployment you want your solution to be able to monitor and analyze across the board across all the different vendors that are inherent into your solution and you want automated tasks in your configuration and in your different protocols in the virtual world and in the physical network and again you want to be connected directly to the community to be able to roll out these services faster to your customers with time to market directly with the source code and finally we're talking about operability and operability means the ability to operate your network under any circumstance so we're talking about no downtime during lifecycle management tasks such as upgrades and automatic failure recovery and we're talking about the ability to allow your customers to evolve at their own pace to transform to cloud native to transform to containers to do all of this together with their existing system whether it's VMs or containers running on VMs or microservices within containers you need the ability to be flexible and allow your customers that kind of flexibility and obviously automated management so you need simple and gooey based plugins that allow you to overcome human error easily and automate every network task that you're faced with so again all of these elements together openness and security and service ability and operability they're all really easy to imagine at the center of this converged future future in which your unified infrastructure brings the flexibility and automation and openness in the multi-vendor aspects that you're looking for and allows your customer to ease the transition into the future so we're talking about a unified infrastructure again for all types of customers and all types of workloads a highly secure unified infrastructure with localized security protocols that is ready for 5G that allows you to reach edge deployments with latency requirements and a smaller footprint that brings the source code directly from the community and gives you to work with the community and that's an important part of it again allows you to work in a multi-vendor environment with monitoring and analytics across the board allows your customers to move to containers at their own pace and eventually of course reduces OPEX reduces TCO and ultimately that's what it comes down to so again one ring to rule them all kind of all powerful and dark and in the darkness binds them but when you put all of this together with openness and all the concepts that we've been talking about today you get one ring to rule them all that goes from telco to IT to enterprise to edge provides all of the security, all of the openness all of the flexibility that your customers are looking for but enables them to work in a unified environment that is easy to use that is serviceable, that is operable and you'll notice maybe that I haven't said the single name of a product today but again I'm from CloudBand and CloudBand infrastructure software is something that we are demonstrating here today at the Nokia booth if any of you are interested in hearing more about it, seeing a short demonstration of some of the capabilities that we've talked about here today you're welcome to join and if not continue the conversation with me directly thank you any questions?