behind the scenes: new rackspace cloud control panel

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


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


Fun Facts

We have over 30 Rackers focused on the New Cloud Control Panel


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


Customer Centered Approach

Research before, during and after


Our Approach is Different

Rackspace is designed for ease of use


Rackspace Design Principles

•Simple: Begin with ‘too simple’

•Intuitive: Meet people in their world, not ours

•Fanatical: Go above and beyond


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/


New Open Cloud Products


Rackspace Portfolio


• 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


• 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


• 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


• Monitor anywhere• Scales automatically• Flexible alerts• Infrastructure monitoring


• API driven layer 2 network segmentation

• Virtualized network for security and isolation in the public cloud

• Powered by OpenStack Quantum


What’s in Store for the Future?

RACKSPACE® HOSTING | WWW.RACKSPACE.COM

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.


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

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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

behind the scenes: new rackspace cloud control panel

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