behind the scenes: new rackspace cloud control panel
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Behind The Scenes: New Cloud Control Panel
Brian Hartsock Product Manager,
Cloud Control Panel
Jacob Puckett Manager, User
Experience Design
Erik Carlin Director of
Product Strategy
Jim BattenbergCloud and Partner
Evangelist@ jimbattenberg
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What we will be discussing
How we designed the New Cloud Control Panel
New Cloud Control Panel walk-through
New Open Cloud Products
Future plans
Q&A
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Fun Facts
• We built our Cloud Control Panel on the CLOUD
• We use Jenkins and GitHub as part of our development cycle
• We have had over 1,300 control panel code deployments since launching the New Cloud Control Panel
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Fun Facts
We have over 30 Rackers focused on the New Cloud Control Panel
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Reinventing the Rackspace User Experience
1. Simplify IT for businesses
2. Make the Cloud easy to use
3. UI is front line of Fanatical Support
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Customer Centered Approach
Research before, during and after
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Our Approach is Different
Rackspace is designed for ease of use
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Rackspace Design Principles
•Simple: Begin with ‘too simple’
•Intuitive: Meet people in their world, not ours
•Fanatical: Go above and beyond
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Rackspace Cloud portal is great. Very easy and intuitive to use and new system build
time is exceptional. Great work.
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Customer Feedback
Loving the control panel improvements that
Rackspace has made to their Cloud Server
platform – very nice!
Rackspace your newish cloud control panel
rocks…...
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Walk Through
https://mycloud.rackspace.com/
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New Open Cloud Products
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Rackspace Portfolio
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• Built on OpenStack –Create hundreds of servers in
minutes• Choose your region• Much Improved “ilities”
–Scalability, Reliability, Agility • Over 40 OS and DB images
–Quick Releases–Update Windows Images
Regularly
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• Container-based = blazingly fast
• Built-in data redundancy• Turn-key offering designed to reduce administrative burden
• Scale up to 16GB RAM and 150GB disk
• Based on OpenStack Red Dwarf
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• Additional storage for your Cloud Server
• Mix/match RAM & Disk Space• Optimize for storage or more I/O• Built-in performance floor• Simple pricing - No I/O charge
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• Monitor anywhere• Scales automatically• Flexible alerts• Infrastructure monitoring
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• API driven layer 2 network segmentation
• Virtualized network for security and isolation in the public cloud
• Powered by OpenStack Quantum
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What’s in Store for the Future?
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2013 ROADMAP THEMES
SERVICESEvolving Fanatical Support®, advising, sharing best practices and collaborating with our customers.
BETTERCONTROL
Giving customers more transparency and insight into their hosted applications and infrastructure.
ENHANCED SECURITY & RESILIENCY
Enabling better security and strengthening businesses.
EASIER TO SCALE
Enabling geographically distributed, mission critical applications, expansion and automation.
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THE RIGHT FIT FOR EVERY APPLICATION
PRIVATECLOUD
PUBLICCLOUD
CUSTOMER
PREMISE
PARTNERDATA
CENTER
PRIVATECLOUD
PRIVATECLOUD
VIRTUALIZED
VMWARE
DEDICATED
BARE METAL
RACKSPACE DATA CENTER
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PUBLIC CLOUD HIGHLIGHTS
Launched Projected Launch KEY:
• ObjectRocket• Cloud Monitoring Dashboard and Historical Data Graphs• Application Deployment Automation • Firewall/VPN Appliance• Ubiquitous Cloud Backup
• Additional Cloud Servers flavor classes• New regions: SYD, IAD, HKG • Role Based Access Control across services• Image sharing, region copy, import/export• RackConnect 3.0• New Services: Hadoop, Queuing, Autoscale, Encryption
Q2
H2
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Big 3 Takeaways
•Customer-centric design and development
•Fast Development Cycles
•Access to New Open Cloud Products
Try @ https://mycloud.rackspace.com
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Q&A
Brian Hartsock Product Manager,
Cloud Control Panel
Jacob Puckett Manager, User
Experience Design
Erik Carlin Director of
Product Strategy
Jim BattenbergCloud and Partner
Evangelist@ jimbattenberg
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