1. Introduction to OpenStack
Ewan Mellor,
Director, Engineering, OpenStack,
Citrix Systems, Inc.
Member of the OpenStack Project Policy Board

2. What is OpenStack?
OpenStack Compute OpenStack Object Storage
OpenStack Image Service

4. The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
Section 102(a)
• The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the
United States that activities in space should be devoted to
peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.

5. The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
Section 102(d)(8)
• The most effective utilization of the scientific and engineering
resources of the United States, with close cooperation
among all interested agencies of the United States in order
to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, facilities, and
equipment;

12. What is OpenStack?
• An open-source cloud infrastructure platform
• Designed for very large scale
• datacenter and multi-datacenter scales
• Open APIs, controlled by the community
• Technology agnostic
• hypervisor, authentication, database, networking, storage all pluggable

18. REST-based API Data distributed evenly throughout
system Scalable to multiple
petabytes, billions of
objects
Account/Container/Object structure
(not file system, no nesting) plus
Replication (N copies of accounts,
containers, objects)
No central
database
Hardware agnostic: commodity
hardware, RAID not required