 And get started. I don't like standing on the stage because I feel like I'm giving a concert and I'm not very good at it so This second day you guys enjoying Barcelona enjoying open stack So I am between you guys and all the happy hours and the drinks, right? So I know It's been a long day. So we'll try to make this interesting Just just a few rules. I think a lot of people that come to this conference are very very Smart a lot of you guys are a lot smarter than I am so I'm going to usually these slides are guidelines And we just run through some of these things what is very interesting for us is question answers Common suggestions because it is a great opportunity for us to get a pulse as to what we are doing and where the world is going So feel free to stop me at any time raise your hand I can repeat the question if you think we're on the right path Let us know if you think we are definitely going the wrong way then then please speak up because it's all about the community here, right? So with that Little bit of introductions. My name is Adnan. I am responsible for the STN Strategy and the product management at Dell EMC Exciting times as you might have heard the news. We just closed a small merger. So so became twice the size so Essentially what my team does and what my responsibility is to make sure that we go and do networking in a different way And I actually make sure networking does not stand in the way of innovation And I I don't know how many of you believe but but Networking has been boring for the last decade at least that's what I believe and then the interesting times are ahead So we'll talk about some of the things that that we are doing and and how it ties to open stack I think it's fairly straightforward. So what we are doing is not very complicated And and hopefully should make intuitive sense. So so with that, let's just get into this And I do tend to skip the marketing slides although I have to run everything through marketing before I present So but I really don't want to bore you guys with with some of the marketing content This being one of it So I think we all understand why we want to go take a look at technologies like open stack And I have a better slide about this and I'll actually use this So what we what we have seen Is that doing open stack at an enterprise level is is is hard? I mean what at Dell EMC what we are trying to do is to make it easy for people to actually deploy open stack solutions And then the reason for doing that is the following it is Because of what has happened on the public cloud side of the world people on the enterprise side have to approach infrastructure in a different way and We just cannot keep building infrastructure and keep doing it the way we used to do do it a couple of years ago And then the reason is because at the end of the day the expectations that your business has from you is that you got to go faster I mean the whole the whole agility aspect of how to deploy applications to get infrastructure up and running to reuse Infrastructure for different applications and make it application agnostic That's that's all a reality and that's an expectation from a hybrid cloud or a private cloud deployment that you guys might be doing Or might be looking at so one of the reasons why one of the business reasons that we look at is okay How can we help you go faster right the second thing is? Instead of doing it in a silo where you have you know compute team server team Networking team storage team we we see teams actually coming closer together and and working to deliver the business objectives So so the idea is how do you basically build technology that actually enables these teams that have had they understand? Technology that understand in the infrastructure, but get more closely working together with each other So if you if you take a look at it the idea here is for people to actually spend time on doing productive things Rather than you know sitting on CLI and writing configurations. I mean that's that's the bottom line here and I Think everybody here understands that security is is the number one issue that a lot of us Depending on which space you're in are facing so the bottom at the end of the day What you got to do is you got to go faster and you got to be economical because you are again We are getting a lot of pressure from the public cloud side of things Now from a cap my belief and this is my opinion. I have to state It's not delt's official opinion, but my opinion I think at the end of the day on the capex side of the world you can never you know be as Efficient as the big cloud guys just because of the volume of purchase they have right but capex is one side of cost If you start building an infrastructure the way These guys are building it and on the same design principles on the operational sides You can be as efficient and that is why we are here and that is why you have technologies like open stack because instead of building an Orchestration platform by yourself because I doubt many of you have a 500 people software engineering team You you have to rely on technologies like that so that can automate and deploy and manage your infrastructure, right? So that's with that premise. Let's let's get into What we are doing so Now before the session is focused on what Dell EMC is doing from a networking perspective, right? so I Find this a very interesting slide and I usually make it interactive because it's it's almost four o'clock on a on a On a Wednesday in Barcelona, and I don't know what time you guys were out though But I was out till four in the morning. Actually, this is getting recorded. No, I was sleeping so Let's let's have some some fun with this so And and the reason why we do it is not to quiz anybody but but to actually talk about, you know, what happened I mean, whatever this is showing on the slide this phenomena happened on the compute side of the world, right? So how many people here remember mainframes or Sun, you know architectures like Sun was what happened? So today you're deploying x86, right? Okay, what happened with how did that? How did the x86 phenomena happen? Okay, cheaper and faster is one thing But that's part of the answer. I'm looking for again. It's just to wake everybody up. Honestly It's not not a quiz. I mean you don't get a prize or anything like that. Although there is a raffle So so you on the before I end I'm actually going to announce the winner of the raffle So so that's the only thing it's so but it's just to make it interactive and fun It's not to quiz anybody cheaper and faster is one thing, but if I make something today that is zero cost To you it's still you're not going to deploy it, right? So let's go beyond cheaper and faster Let's go what technology phenomena it enabled. So who wants to take a stab at it? I can grab you a free coffee downstairs after we're done. So again, it's just to have fun Come on. What did x86 do? Why did x86 happen? Sorry It commoditized the hardware. Let's go above the stack a little bit, right? Agreed that it is cheaper Faster is questionable Commodization absolutely agreed What runs on a server an operating system? It was if you if you think about what happened again just to accelerate because it's Europe and its people are a little shy here So so it's it's easier in America. It's harder in Asia in Japan. By the way if you do this The application ecosystem you see at up your operating system was not tied To your hardware anymore, right and your applications were developed on the operating system and That the ecosystem thrived and today because of applications Right, I mean if if if I give you a piece of hardware for free and your application doesn't work on it You're not going to deploy it So it is the application ecosystem that basically drove the commoditization and and all the other answers We got on the compute side of the world, right? If you go back 15 years even before the compute revolution the same thing happened with with with desktops and notebooks by the way It's it's interesting whenever you have a vertically integrated phenomena. Eventually the model breaks apart and The industry follows the same phenomena So the question that we started asking ourselves at Dell at the time or Dell EMC now is why is networking so different? And if you think about it networking has been locked for a very very long time I mean the speeds have gotten faster I mean I would one could argue that per gig prop price in the port went down as well But you get this pretty box from one of the big vendors downstairs It has nice lights and ports in the back and CLI and API access, but you cannot touch the OS on the box and and That is the epiphany that came to us about two years ago And that is what we decided to go change now if you go if you look at this slide the first movement happened And I I mean I think almost every major vendor has followed that movement, which is merchant silicon, right? So that's done the second thing is now most of the hardware is being designed and there are movements in OCP and other places where that is happening as well But more or less hardware I would say networking stand when it's fairly it's getting standardized Although there isn't a standard that exists, but the software is where I believe that Dell actually drove the differentiation Compared to any under other major OEM vendor in the world And I'm extremely proud to be part of Dell throughout this movement And what we did was we basically went after the initially the any networking OS option and That's what we saw for so what did we do? This is this is our opinion about the networking industry and this is where we are today Believe me it was a two-year journey and it's a not an easy transition to make when you actually have your own operating system that you develop on So let's let's let's let's work through this slide on the right most side We basically have some of the choices of the operating systems that we offer on our all of our data center portfolio so today you can actually go and and and and Call Dell or whatever your purchase mechanism is you can buy a Dell switch And you can choose either cumulus you can so choose big stretch You can choose IP infusion or player bus these are the four operating system choices that are non Dell own intellectual property that we offer on all our data center portfolio now I mean just you I mean I I don't I'm you guys can go read up on the operating system choices And I mean I only have like 40 minutes here So I don't want to get into why each one of those but we picked each one of these because they solve a different use case and and the challenge here is that we believe that IT organizations don't go home on a Friday night Saying that Monday morning. We will be SDN ready Right. It's a transition. It's a skill set transition, right? It doesn't happen overnight But as you go through that journey, we want to give you the choices which is right for your use case and right for Where your organization is today? Let me ask you a different question if you actually how many people are actually have Dell compute deployed in their infrastructure servers, okay My three most favorite people in the room But if you want to change your OS on the on your server, do you have to ship the server back? No, right similarly on networking Dell what we have done is you can actually Start with any operating system that you like and change it and you don't have to rip and replace your hardware So essentially we are giving you the protection of having infrastructure in place as you go down the software defined journey And the first word in SDN is yes So let's go figure that out rather than trying to shove a vertically integrated moral everybody's down everybody's throat So again a lot of time spent on this because I do believe that this is the Fundamental mindset difference that exists between what the way we are looking at the industry and the way everybody else is looking at the industry and I would challenge you that as People that actually flew all the way to Barcelona because you believe in open architectures. You're at open stack You want this to be successful No matter what your render of choice might be Push those guys to move in this direction. Otherwise You're saying one thing and you're doing enough And and and that's that's the fundamental thing I challenge my customers my partners and my peers that I'm a technology guy So I make technology statements and I apologize for being very firm about it But unless you guys if you guys believe in the open movement You have to push the industry in that direction and we listen and that's what we are doing and it's a very big Mindset change. So on one side you have these options. So now let's talk about the middle the leftmost At Dell EMC we have developed a new operating system called OS stand Don't ask me how we came up with that name. It just it's got nothing to do with iOS 10 and It's a full It's a it's a Linux based operating system Which is which is not something that hasn't been solved but a few differentiations in it number one It's an unmodified Linux kernel. So we'll support multiple Linux distributions in it So that's that's that's one thing the second thing is we have built a messaging infrastructure in it So and and that is going to make sense in a minute and what we have done is how many people are familiar with OCP here? Okay, so are you familiar with the sonic project that got announced at the OCP summit in February? Okay, so sonic is a project that was announced by Microsoft Which is the for it's an open-source Switch OS project that got launched under the OCP umbrella and we have contributed our operating system base into into the open-source community and And and we are the first major OEM vendors to actually embrace open-source in in that part of the The community and now what we are doing so that we did together with Microsoft made its contributions We made our contributions and today you can go to github and you can download it and you can run it yourself install Koga BGP on DAB and off you go to the races and that is the exact software that if you Actually want to get support from Dell and you want to get the full Dell stack you can you still have the option to do So so what we are doing here is that for customers or partners that have the ability to deploy and run their Infrastructures themselves and want to code it up the geek town or the geek squad is the way I call it You have the choice to go through github if you want support and you say you know what? I do want somebody to call you can pick up the you can buy support from Dell and you can go do that again on one side We are perfectly fine That if you go down the open source road and we're perfectly fine If you want to give us a little bit of money and we'll take it but the whole movement is That if you take a look at it the hardware is getting standardized Okay, you have software choices available and on the left most spectrum Or we call it the the most that most DevOps and tricks spectrum We are giving you the ability to run open source on our switch and the other reason is because we believe that a lot of innovation As we move forward in the networking world is going to come from applications and in order for you to Enable networking application Ecosystem on the switch the first thing you got to do is you got to open source the software Because otherwise everything is tied to the Dell infrastructure So from our perspective we are the first major OEM and I think after EMC acquisition and now that we are Dell EMC We are a fairly serious infrastructure player. We are the first major player to have This kind of an approach and such an open mindset for the data center part of the industry And that is how we are very different than than anybody else So I wanted to sort of highlight this because what we are doing is we are basically giving you the building blocks to enable some of these things so Make sense and again, I think the picture in the bottom is fairly self-evident I mean most of us know what a class architecture is and then and how to run L3 fabrics So so I and I hope that a lot of you are moving to L3 and not building long with a different debate Big L2 stretch to me. So Does it does it make sense? I mean have I have I done a decent job at explaining how we are looking at the industry from a software standpoint Okay, how many people here think that this is interesting? Just give me give me a gut check because I need to know if you're on the right path or not. I know it's five, okay How many people here would actually bother googling the github and download the code? Okay, well you work for Dell Okay, so so again guys I that's one of the things I wanted to drive home I mean again, hopefully this is this is interesting and you'll see a lot of innovation come from our side I mean we are looking at things like bringing bringing an L3 application as a container on top of the stack Right again, these are innovations. We are working through but first you got to go enable the platform and the base stuff again Think compute right when you were driving the Commodization and the faster and the cheaper in compute you had to basically go enable the basic building blocks, right? And then that's what we are working towards So how does this all tie into open stack? Well first of all the first word in open stack is open so so with that What we have done is for Remember the comment I made that your investments in in in del are are actually protected, right? So You can You can go with Dell infrastructure today and you can move down the operating systems at any point, right? But in order for you to run your applications today your mission critical applications What do you need to do to work with now? Right, that's the question because I don't think anybody is going to run their most critical open applications on open source software on day One, right? So it's a journey that you will take it will happen It is just a matter of time. I mean you and I can debate on the time frame For and I think it depends on your business needs It depends on your organizational needs and it depends on the how much time you have to operationalize this but I do believe that maybe two to three years at the same conference Hopefully at the same location, you know if I ask how many people are running open source in their infrastructure a lot more hands would go up, right? So we basically support let's say we took two examples You have reference architectures with red hat and Marantis which have the whole one of the one of the things that we are trying to Do is to make it easy for you to run open stack end to end so please don't look at Dell EMC as a networking all I mean as a Networking solution or a compute solution. We basically develop these solutions in our enterprise labs We test them we certified and I give you a reference architecture while giving you the ability to choose components at every level as you see fit and you can change them so That's if you we have two two two two engineered solutions that we have basically Reference art you can reach out to us. We can happy to give you the details We have the certification the testing and all those things done one is on red hat one is on Marantis I am not going to go into the hardware spec detail because I you know It's not about giving you the model numbers But on the software side from a networking perspective you you have two choices you can you're more than two choices But you can start with cumulus or you can start with big switch as the underlay and Depending on what overlay you want to pick you can pick new Archer You can pick medecura as an overly option and the reason is it basically takes away the pain that you have when you run Open stack by yourself from a networking perspective and again both these OSes are interchangeable So so that's and they plug into neutron because that's what you got to get into so We basically At the end of the day the the reason for doing reference architectures and again I'm just going to touch on this slide or engineered solution from our perspective is because if you Want to if you like everything we are doing you can actually go get a turnkey solution and it will work tomorrow morning We have a professional services offering around it We have people that know how to come and get it up and running in your site and then get your applications going so all of the Building blocks that we are building they eventually go into this engineered solution And we give people the ability to basically get the whole solution from Dell which is certified And then you can choose what you want to do with it so we have as I mentioned it's one with red hat It's one one with What answers so let me I want to leave some time for questions So let me get to the to the to the to the operating system or the software defined part This is the networking site on the how many people here have heard the name cumulus Okay, so for the people that haven't if you are a Linux savvy shop, this is a good choice for you It essentially gives you the ability to manage your infrastructure from a networking perspective the same way you manage So you have a question The manager compute infrastructure, okay, it actually gives you a batch from it's a And off you go to the races so that is one of the operating system choices that we present we again have created the reference architecture for our open stack solution using cumulus as well and It just gives you the ability to automate a lot more But you have to have Linux expertise and and and if you if you are looking at this as a networking operating system choice on one of our platforms The the way to deploy this at the end of the day, it's pretty straightforward You basically do an L3 class fabric. How many people here are networking engineers? Just for fun. Okay so Okay for the rest of you guys This is fairly standard. It's not rocket science And this is the architecture that is running some of the largest infrastructures on planet earth Because it gives you a lot of things for free and it has a very high Resiliency if you the the interesting thing about this architecture is if you think old-school, okay, let's for fun any box can fail at any point and you lose very little of traffic in the infrastructure because the resiliency is not built in Expensive boxes it is built in the architecture So it's a distributed architecture and any any any any and basically you're doing routing from from the host out So that is the standard architecture that we support It actually gives you the ability to to to our run and automate your infrastructure like I said the same way you manage your compute nodes if you're a Linux shop and it's easy the second solution that we recommend again, this has been tested is And and we have white papers and the complete reference architecture is a big switch How many people here are familiar with big switch? Okay, too. So on one side We have an option which gives you the ability to run Linux, right? Because your Linux savvy for people that don't have the operational teams that have the capability to do that What do you do? We have to give you a solution for that and the way you do that is Okay, how many people flew into Barcelona? Just raise your hands. Okay Would you want to fly into Barcelona if the air traffic control wasn't working? No Okay, just because the traffic in the data center has grown to the point that now instead of Two people making their own decisions You have a controller that is sitting and looking at all the infrastructure and makes all the decisions But it has the global view so it actually takes all the intelligence and it runs on a redundant way on a server and switches become just basically port forwarders and Every time you need to make a change you just go make a change on the controller You don't have to touch the switches so on the op look from an operational standpoint. It's a very Efficient way to run your infrastructure Compared to you know going on CLI and changing everything and it has API as it ties into neutron and you're very good So and the other thing it does is is it cheaper to actually develop control plane logic on Custom hardware or is it cheaper to run it on a server? Cheaper to run it on a server So very different way is actually a big switch So those are the two two things again because there aren't a lot of networking people So I want to point out that the reason for you do one of the things that this solution offers that nobody offers in the industry It actually takes most of the complexity and the challenges that traditionally come with open stack networking and and because it has It has agent that runs on a server and it replaces the routing functionality there So so you should be good, but again not because we only have two networking people here We can have offline conversation on how that's done. I don't want to get too geeky about it So and how many people heard about the corona deployment that Verizon talked about at open stack in Austin? So this is what they're using and it's fairly public. So I'm not giving any secrets and so I Think we are running out of time So I wanted to stop for a second and I mean that's the last fun slide I have after this It's it's it's again marketing stuff. So did I did did I at least give you guys an overview as to how Dell EMC is looking at? software-defined networking Is it complicated? It's okay. Any opinion is a good opinion simple enough How many here think that we are absolutely sorry good? Sorry, you can I mean come closer The question is can you run it on a server to test? Yeah, so we basically have some Some VMs away. I mean some of these orchestration to they're available in a VM You can run on a server to play with it But the challenge in networking is for you to truly test anything you actually have to run it in your network. So We can we give when we can definitely figure it out, but but yes, I mean you can go to If you saw drop me an email you can go to the website and download a VM that you can run on your on your on Your laptop actually and then play around with the CLI, but it's not gonna route Right, so what's right? Yeah, absolutely. You can definitely go to that. So I know we have How are we doing on time? Yeah, so we should we have a couple of minutes left any other questions before I announced the raffle winner Is the person not in yet? So Same basically the you are all do you like is it okay to ask like what kind of third party what third party plug-in? Yeah, so essentially you're you're solving that problem through an assax, so which by the way is perfectly fine given that we're all Technologies now Okay, so before I do the raffle Pretty simple The only thing I want to you guys to take away from the session is the way Dell EMC is looking at networking is Essentially, we're the only vendor that is truly opening the whole networking space up and when and if you if you want to take a look at Dell you don't have to worry about the fact that we basically test and certify all these solutions and You can buy a complete end-to-end One rack to 50 racks to 100 to thousands of racks which actually have been tested and certified through our engineered systems And you can change at any point of delineation within your infrastructure You can you can pick pick red hat or Marantis you can pick Any of the operating systems on the switches and you can basically get a complete engineered solution So with that hopefully this was fun. Let me just pick the raffle thing because I think the thing is pretty cool Two to three who has two to three it is to do Okay going once going twice I'll pick another one then one nine nine ah Congratulations actually this is pretty cool. There you go. Thank you make it It is actually as Bluetooth speaker, right? So something that you would actually use when you go out later tonight, so thank you everybody enjoy the rest of OpenStack Get home safe or how if Barcelona is home you live in a great city. So thanks. Take care