 OpenStack provides the true values of cloud to any enterprise. OpenStack provides a very powerful set of APIs which can be used to automate almost all elements of a data center. OpenStack gives you all the fundamentals that you need to be able to design your application and deploy it in such a way that it can auto-scale, it can auto-heal, it can grow horizontally. Intel is enabling OpenStack to play a central role in software-defined infrastructure. Our commitment is to help ensure OpenStack can be adopted and leveraged inside the data center. The infrastructure is strategic to us and open-source technology as it relates to infrastructure, it gives us the edge both in terms of time to market, but more importantly it allows us to embrace innovation at a much faster pace. OpenStack has been very important for eBay and we made a very conscious shift to go to OpenStack. eBay had been on home-grown cloud technologies and we just found that we weren't innovating fast enough. We are seeing that the best developers want to work on open-source, they want to contribute and they want to work at companies which are adopting open-source. OpenStack is indeed ready for prime time. OpenStack has come a long way. I think it is ready for business. Please welcome Intel vice president and general manager of Intel's open-source technology center, Imad Sousou. Good morning everyone. Good morning everyone and great to be here. Yeah, Ruchi is absolutely right. OpenStack is ready and OpenStack is open for business. We at Intel, we believe that software-defined infrastructure is the cornerstone of the modern data center. OpenStack is the cornerstone of software-defined infrastructure, but there is a lot of more work that we need to do. Thanks to the amazing work by the community and thanks to the amazing work by the OpenStack developers, we have got to where we are today. But there is a lot more work to do. There is a lot of skeptics still that are out there and there is a perception that OpenStack is not ready yet for prime time. You see that in the press, you still see that everywhere and we do hear that from our customers and there is some truth to that. We acknowledge this and we realize that there is a lot of work that we need to do in OpenStack to really get to the way that we feel would be an easily deployable, robust, software-defined infrastructure platform. Now, in order to get there, we are going to have a lot of... We are going to need a lot of focus. I mean when you look back, you look back at Linux. Linux started about 25 years ago and OpenStack is a fairly young project. It took 10 years to get Linux to where it is today with its broad deployment and ease of use and just plug and go. With OpenStack, we are going to need to have a lot of focus to get OpenStack to that level. The level where if you look again in the Linux comparison, there is this very mature project as a result of many years of work by a very broad community and there is a very healthy ecosystems of distributors. An enterprise can go and they can just buy any of the Linux distribution products. They can buy Red Hat Linux and they are able to install that fairly easily, deploy it and operate it and so on. We need to get to that in OpenStack and in software-defined infrastructure. Over the past year, there has been a lot of work that happened in the community to get OpenStack to that level. I am going to talk about a few of those. Probably the one that is my favorite that I feel had the biggest impact is what started about a year ago at the OpenStack Summit and that is the Win the Enterprise Working Group. The Win the Enterprise Working Group really focused, it got a lot of people involved and it focused on understanding all the pain points from users of OpenStack. So we went out and we talked to a lot of users, a lot of people who experimented with OpenStack, a lot of people who deployed OpenStack and we learned a great deal. We learned a great deal from that and that got translated into specific actions and specific code that made OpenStack better and better over the past year. The same thing with Win the Telco that started right after that. Going out and understanding all the Telco requirements but what are their pain points. And that's but not least the last working group that got formed recently around the products working group. And that is really focused on creating the road maps and creating predictable road maps and really driving much better and much more mature upstreams and so on. All of these things are things that we really need to focus on and it's going to take all of us to get OpenStack to the absolute product worthiness and the open software defined infrastructure in the modern data center. Now, as we do this, we need to also continue to think about innovation and promote innovation and encourage innovation. And when you look at our experience, when I look at our experience from an Intel perspective in working on hundreds of open source projects, we heavily contribute to open source projects. For example, if you take the Linux kernel, we're the top contributor to the Linux kernel. And what we found in our experience that having just the open source structure along with the vibrant community and with really a healthy user base and customer base, that creates the perfect platform for innovation. And this is, you know, I really encourage everybody to actually start all of these type of innovation projects. One project that I would like to talk a little bit about now is, today is ClearLinux. ClearLinux is a project that our engineers started about three, four months ago. And it's really just a lightweight OS that, in large part, it's focused on that type of innovation, really removing some of the clutter, and that's why we call it Clear, by the way, and really have it be focused as a lightweight OS for the modern usages. One of the features that our engineers have worked on and just released the first cut of it yesterday is clear containers. So the thing that we looked at is when you look at, you know, the key question was, how do you do containers while leveraging and using some of the hardware features that's been very, very effectively used, for example, in virtual machines? You know, you can take a look at VTX, for example, the virtualization instruction set. So how can you use that in containers? And obviously, you know, when you compare VMMs to containers, there's this big difference in launch time and memory usage and how many containers or virtual machines you can launch. And to my amazement, you know, through a lot of innovation work and a lot of very hard work from our engineers, we've been able to, you know, and this is what's all open now, you can see on Clear Linux, is that there was this, you know, we're able today to launch, you know, a clear container in like 200 milliseconds. And we're able to run thousands of those clear containers on a single node. And that is just an amazing, you know, that's just an amazing accomplishment. And that was done through using a lot of pre-existing projects like KVM and all of the learning that we've had from the Linux kernel and the user space and so on. You know, I encourage all of you to, while we focus on getting OpenStack ready for enterprise, getting OpenStack ready for private cloud and make it the absolute most mature platform for software-defined infrastructure, continue the innovation, create project, participate in projects with innovation, create the sandbox, create the sandbox and so on. So we at Intel are very, very committed to OpenStack and we are very, very committed to OpenSource. And we think and we believe that OpenStack will win as the platform, the open platform for software-defined infrastructure and for the modern data center. You have our commitment on this and you will see us make a lot of investments and a lot of resources and a lot of our engineers working to turn that into a reality just like we participated in the Linux community and the hundreds of other projects that we participate in. One final commitment that I would like to talk about and that is diversity. First of all, I am very proud that what happened at the board, at the OpenStack Foundation board of directors meeting a couple of days ago where we approved the diversity working group which is I encourage all of you to participate and because it is really important. We at Intel have a very big initiative on diversity in high-tech and in my group, this has been a very special initiative to us even predates that for many years, encouraging and fostering diversity in open source project that we would like to participate and bring into OpenStack. I am not going to talk about this but I will let some of the industry leaders talk about the diversity topic in this video. The digital service economy is driving tremendous demands on the data center. A responsive, easy to operate and efficient data center is key to meeting those demands and OpenStack is the equivalent of the operating system for the data center. And so it's a natural place for Intel to contribute to help end users deploy cloud solutions with maximum performance at the lowest cost of operation. When you look into the future, if you're going to have 50 billion devices connected to a backend, are they all going to talk differently to each other? You're not going to have rapid innovation, rapid deployment, rapid development going on. Open source projects are key in terms of unlocking a lot of participation in the market, a lot of innovation from all corners of the world. The community comes together, builds a foundation of capability, then it frees up resources to innovate on top. OpenStack is a collection of projects. There is a storage solution, a networking solution, a compute solution, and Intel has products in all of those segments. We just want OpenStack to be successful, stable, easily accessible to people, so you don't need to be a rocket scientist. You don't need a giant IT department, but you can then leverage all the software-defined infrastructure that's coming down the highway. The OpenStack community is great because there is so much participation, so much activity. It's exciting. It's a powerful community. There's a question which often gets asked on why women of OpenStack, if you are designing a product, if all men or all women design a product, it's only going to cater to 50% of the population. End of the day, it's not just about men making products for men. The men have to make products for women, so we come in with our own needs, our own priorities, our own perspectives. If I am the only woman in a meeting, I may not be able to speak up, but the moment if I see more women around me, I have a better environment to work for. Intel's trying to help women in OpenStack through multiple efforts. Making sure that there's networking opportunities, collaboration opportunities, mentoring opportunities. Having the diversity or parity in the workforce definitely makes a safer, more fun environment for everybody. So, it's just kind of like the greatest time to be in this industry, and I think it's only going to get better. I think when you actually are bringing this many people together to work on something that the industry needs, then you can say, hey, my code is in there. It's an amazing thing to know that you've had such an impact on an industry. When you see the impact of what you enable through your technology and business innovation, I love that. You're enabling this business success. It's kind of cool to know that, hey, my software is working out there in CERN and helping particle physics, that it's going to work maybe to do some genome mapping. I mean, it's like when somebody makes a line of code in Linux and it's working on every computer, that's cool. And that you can collaborate with people across the world, across industry, set standards. It's just kind of awesome. Thank you, Ahmad, especially for your leadership in getting the diversity working group off the ground. Just to echo what he said, definitely please get involved. It's a very important initiative. Now, next up...