 Hello everybody. Thanks for coming out to the theater today. My name is Joseph George. I'm the vice president of solutions at SUSE and we totally recognize that we are between you and lunch. So we're gonna try and focus on some very interesting things today. With me is a Simon Briggs. He's our AMIA cloud architect and we're gonna spend some time talking today about the applications in your environment. They're not 100% cloud native. They're not 100% legacy IT applications. So you're gonna have to figure out how you make these two work together. And SUSE is a great partner to work with you to make that happen. We've been doing it across Linux. We've been doing it in storage. We do an open stack. So without further ado I will hand it over to Simon. Thank you very much George. So thanks everyone for coming along. It's great to get opportunity to speak at the open stack summit. It is a wonderful event and I'm very proud my company SUSE chooses me to do this. As it's been introduced I'm a little bit of an open stack fanboy and it's brilliant that SUSE who I've worked with for many years now is also a fanboy of open stack and what it brings to possibilities it brings to the companies that we work with. So importantly open stack isn't just a upstream community. Organisations like SUSE actually also help very large enterprises get the best out of the technology and we answer some questions they may have. So this presentation is going to be a brief walk through our thought processes around the challenges that our customers have and how we think we're a very strong proposition as a vendor to help you move forward in your journey to get the best out of a private cloud and what that might mean in the future. Okay so we today announced actually that our new version of SUSE open stack cloud as it's called has been slated to be released back end of the year. We've done a full press announcement but really this just quickly describes that we are releasing on the Newton code base this time with SUSE open stack cloud 7 and importantly the biggest change within the technology stack is we're incorporating Magnum allowing Kubernetes to drive Docker or system containers sorry application containers out at scale and we've got a very strong presentation set up on our booth on D27 so if you want to come along and actually see Newton driving those Docker instances within a running open stack cloud it's actually back in Germany our headquarters in Nuremberg you can see the elastic capabilities that you're able to achieve with that technology. There's some other bits I'll mention as we walk forward but my click has decided not to play so what SUSE's proposition well first of all open stacks been recognized by those within the community is a fantastic vehicle for what we might termed as cloud native technology stacks okay so if anyone's familiar with the argument of pets and cattle very much the kind of cattle type logic was applied to open stack initially and that's how most organizations probably utilize the technology well SUSE comes from a slightly different thought process we for many years have been delivering open source to companies in a manner which allows it to be trusted, performant, secure we do all the old-fashioned stuff we're very much the ops part of DevOps in the SUSE world and what we did was recognize very early on that actually if you do too much around the cattle and you concentrate on just the power of rapid development and all the things that the DevOps methodology brings to you you're kind of missing a trick because there is also the ops bit within DevOps okay it's still important that the workloads that you drive into your clouds are actually resilient it's still important that they're secure it's important the data remains secure we are a Germanic organization by nature Nuremberg is our HQ and a lot of our thought processes come out of that part of Europe so we really concentrate in on the security of data and things like that so what we've done is work with the thought process that not only does OpenStack allow you as an organization to be revolutionary on transforming your digital processes but we also help you evolve so why have all your your revolutionary transformation in a silo and all your traditional IT operations in another silo some might actually sit between the both and make sense to be moved across into a fully performant fully secure fully resilient very powerful OpenStack instance okay so that's where we work and that's the logic that we apply when we're working so just to illustrate that more the man on the left is me as a younger guy I put a bit old put a bit of weight on but I used to work out quite a lot so that used to be me working for Suzer in the operational areas so very much into stability the HA capabilities within our OpenStack cloud we were the first to release a fully supported HA component with an OpenStack on the control plane obviously now that's extended now with Liberty release for our Suzer OpenStack 6 to include the KBM or Zen hypervisors another point there is we actually do support Zen it's not gone away if you are interested in Zen Suzer's your friend so we've also worked very hard with our technology to get to the point that we're moving now in version 7 to a non-disruptive upgrade path okay so upgrade has been a massive challenge within the open source community and we've recognized it working with our customers because they like working with a company that takes all the traditional aspects of IT series and we've been improving the upgrade path and we now at a point when we release 7 that it should be a non-disruptive upgrade from our version 6 if you were to start using our technology as 7 that that logic will move forward there's a subtle reason why that's more complicated than you might realize because actually Suzer chose at version 6 to move away from the six month release cycle I banged on pretty hard while I'm stood up here that Suzer's all about reliability all those operational traditional values okay well most of our customers weren't very happy with a six month upgrade cycle it was a little bit too aggressive so we've actually worked with those people and our partners and we've come up with a year-long release cycle support cycle okay so version 7 is coming out now a year ago we released version 6 what that's allowed us to do is extend our supportability of a code base so we get a full three-year supported platform with our version level which is unique in the industry but what it also does it means that when we do an undisruptive upgrade we've got a leap from Liberty across Matarca up to Newton okay that's challenging the technologists in our company have worked very hard on that and we are going to release technology code base which is able to deliver that into our customer base okay we've also got the widest hypervisor support okay we don't just say to our customers and partners we define KBMs the only way forward you have to use it we've worked with VMware for many many years we've worked with Hyper-V for many many years why not make them fully performant and fully supported with an industrial open-stack cloud we've also worked on the mainframe for years you might know as Susie is a Linux on the mainframe it's a reputation we've got so why not make ZVM available with compute notes in the hypervisor in the cloud options so all those options are available to customers and many of our customers look at actually having different levels of service within their cloud delivered by different infrastructure that they have okay we enhance that by making ourselves highly interoperable as well so you can use different hardware infrastructure in the background we have great integration with the big storage vendors for instance so you could actually put some workloads data on very high-end storage arrays and you could actually use our Susie open-stack sorry Susie Enterprise service storage solution which is set based for other workloads within your environment and what we're really delivering there is choice but on the other side we also recognize the organizations of using open-stack to to harness the power of transformation and they are in the game of revolutionizing this very slow traditional model that we all seem to have slept walked into around IT service delivery okay now being able to deliver with containers via a orchestration system like Kubernetes and gives you great power to be able to react to inputs within or events within your application profile usage and then drive out on demand massive scale and then it conflicts back again it's really at a point now where we've got fantastic elasticity with our technology okay not only can we do it on the VM level but the container level allows us to be even more reactive and certain workloads you're looking at as businesses will definitely be candidates to utilize that kind of technology Susie's been in that game for quite a while and we've also integrated Seth as I said earlier and Sephapes is now coming on on board with version 7 allowing us to integrate it with Manila to give unified storage for your production workloads working in your cloud okay obviously we work on other areas as well such as fast deployment and ease of management but they're the call-out stages Susan would also like to tell you that we're very open about open source okay I've got one of my directors in the background Ralph Flax a leading light in the Linux world and his mantra is that as an organization we are open about doing business and part of that is being open to work with partners ones you maybe wouldn't think would be natural with us so Mirantis are very definitely our competition on the open-stack cloud but you might have seen in August that we actually together with Mirantis released an announcement telling the world that we've come to an agreement with them where they would use Susie linux enterprise server technology under their their open-stack technology as their preferred Linux okay the rationale behind that is we're open to other vendors in this market we think our product strong enough to compete whilst others can use our technology in relationships those constructive relationships are even more reinforced if you saw the HPE announcement recently the micro focus the owning group who owns SUSE have actually come to an agreement at least at a very high level with HPE about merger of some of their technology in the open-stack okay again another major vendor in the open-source market a competitor in many ways but an organization that is a if we are getting closer to with relationships in this industry and one thing I like to call out is if you think there's probably about five major vendors in the open stack enterprise ecosystem and that means three of them are actually using SUSE linux technology as their preferred linux technology and I think that's great validation of how strong we are and obviously I've already talked a little bit about the the open-stack announcement on version 7 whilst we're here we're also allowing people to get access to SUSE's open-stack training what you might not have realized is SUSE's open-stack training is the only training available around open-stack which prepares you to not only take the SUSE qualification for open-stack but you will be able to take the standard open-stack qualification of the certified open-stack administrator after following our course so if you do look to get a more general open-stack qualification SUSE training is a good option to follow okay we've got representatives on our booth D27 and also in the training area out front we'll be able to give you more details about that and we are running training it's fully subscribed during the summit and you might get a seat at the back if you want to look but it's fully subscribed sadly one of the other areas and actually the cloud I was talking about that we've got a demo environment of is an example of this we're actually supporting with version 7 ARM 64 technology it's another case where SUSE is very aware that our customers want to be able to be flexible about how they deliver infrastructure to support the needs of their organizations and the ARM 64 technology is going to be supported and I raised that because our demonstration of the SUSE open-stack cloud 7 running Magnum is running on some cavium hardware sitting back in Jürgenberg so it's a really good example of the power of what we're able to achieve okay I've talked at length about the new features and I recognize I've droned on so time is running out but no presentation at the open-stack summit would be complete without a block diagram of the services that we're we're looking at here so SUSE is often seen as just siloed around SUSE Linux but that's the old days we're now active and very strong in the community around network storage and hypervisor layer obviously we've got the great capabilities that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server gives us on top of hardware and we're moving more and more into that top layer that you can see where containers as a service platform as a service with the cloud foundry guys is all becoming relevant okay I've got about four and a half minutes left of your attention I'll quickly just highlight that we've been in the open-stack for a long while you may not have seen us in the community too much but we've kind of been there in the background we're getting a lot bolder about our presence there's a lot of us here during this week please connecting to us come and talk to us we learn from you even if you don't become our customers so we love the conversation we even like talking to our competition if you're in the crowd come and tell us what you think about things it's an open community after all okay some of the credibility story is this continuation so we were the very first organization to bring a fully supported open-stack to customers as a commercial offering okay that was on the Essex release which some of you may remember some of you might be still working on because of the challenges of upgrading okay I've got about three and a half minutes I wanted to give opportunity for questions from the floor so if you have any questions I know it's a daunting thing when you're sat in front of somebody in the lights with a with a headphone on but I'm more than happily take any questions from the floor if there's any brewing up if not I can tap dance no don't want to see me tap dance no okay well thank you for your time it's been wonderful talking to you and thank you very much for opening stack putting on a summit like this it's absolutely fantastic cheers