OpenStack Mitaka Design Summit

Are you still evaluating your cloud strategy or determining how to best apply OpenStack in your company? Come hear how businesses are putting OpenStack to work solving real problems. Whether you are a line-of-business professional, solution architect, or a technical thought leader in your company, this session is for you.  OpenStack luminary and private cloud entrepreneur Jesse Proudman will outline the top three ways companies are using OpenStack to transform the way they develop software, provide customers with new forms of value, and differentiate from their competitors. He'll give several specific, real-world examples and talk about the risks and benefits of different OpenStack consumption models. Jesse will wrap all this in a brief overview of the OpenStack project and its history, just to make sure everyone starts out on an equal footing. 

Curious about how to build, run or manage high performing OpenStack cloud infrastructure tailored to meet your needs? In this session, IBM and Blue Box lays out their Cloud Strategy and how it addresses various client use cases for public, dedicated and local cloud infrastructure.  Learn how you can have a worry-free solution on-premises or in an IBM SoftLayer data center that is managed for you. Hear about detailed capabilities that IBM and Blue Box provide that are differentiators in the market.  Also, learn how public cloud is the key to a hybrid scalable cloud solution.  See how IBM's open cloud platform, Bluemix, integrates open technologies to enable client's developing cloud native applications using OpenStack infrastructure.  Domain experts will talk about specific ways IBM helps address your cloud needs.

The landmark partnership between IBM and Apple announced last year set the internet abuzz. The partnership aims to spark true mobile-led business change across the 
enterprise. In this talk, we’ll show you how IBM is using OpenStack, Heat, and DevOps to 
deploy a truly monumental undertaking.   
To fulfill this goal, we needed to redefine how we deliver our software. Leveraging IBM’s unique expertise in OpenStack and DevOps, we turned the “art of the possible” into our new “reality”. In this talk, we’ll tell the story of how we used fullstack application patterns based on OpenStack Heat to provision environments with speed and reliability. You will hear directly from the joint development team how these patterns enabled us to collaborate unimpeded by the traditional road blocks of IT development. As it turns out, our goal to “spark true business change” has 
extended beyond our customers to include IBM itself. 
You will not only hear about the technical solution but see it in action with a demo in the session. 

Hot topics for the community are also hot topics for IBM.  In this session, leaders from both the Keystone and Docker community will combine to talk to you about Federation and Containers.   
IBM’s Keystone Leaders will provide an overview of the latest enhancements to Keystone’s 
Federated Identity Support in Liberty. The presenters, who published a brand new O'Reilly book on Keystone, will also provide a summary of their latest federated identity use cases involving Google identity and WebSphere Liberty. We then discuss future work items and the roadmap that IBM will be taking on their Federated Identity journey.   In the second half of the talk you will learn from IBM's efforts to make an open container 
ecosystem successful as well as where Docker and container technology is heading for enterprises and developers alike.  You'll hear about the two new foundations IBM has helped form around container technology--the Open Container Initiative (OCI) and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)--both help bring an open and level playing field as this hot technology area grows.  We'll share our role in these foundations as a key partner of Docker and community contributor in the upstream Docker community.  You'll also hear about how IBM is applying this open source technology across our platform portfolio and with customers.  IBM has taken the open source Docker as a basis for the Bluemix Container Service and added enterprise capabilities around security and multi-tenancy which will be discussed.  See how integration with DevOps tooling can combine to provide a compelling container service, from 
application development through production.

Technology is enabling a new era of open innovation. What if you could easily harness this technology and transform your business by changing just one thing? That is what Key Information Systems is doing for its customers.  As a premier cloud service provider, Key Information Systems wants to help companies like yours quickly and easily deploy new workloads in the cloud that exceed expectations. And with OpenStack and IBM Power Systems, they can quickly and easily offer companies an open by design cloud infrastructure that goes above and beyond typical performance, giving one client a 48x improvement in runtimes. Come to this session to hear first hand how Clayton Weise, Director of Cloud Services at Key Information Systems, was able to create a unique cloud infrastructure built with open technologies and designed for mission critical applications.

It’s clear the adoption of OpenStack is continuing at an accelerated pace.  As enterprises are on the journey to adopting OpenStack, they are bringing their own set of legacy requirements and conservative perspectives about their existing enterprise applications.  In this session you will hear directly from two enterprise company speakers.  They will each share their strategy/vision with OpenStack and each company will present a recent project on their journey along with outcomes using IBM Cloud.  Find out why they chose OpenStack, while they discuss technical successes and challenges.  

SAP Chief Product Owner for Cloud Management will speak about the SAP Journey and vision through a technical story about their Landscape Virtualization Management (LVM) product.  In this project they are enabling for OpenStack with adapters written and contributed using an open source model.  You will hear about how they are staying ahead of their client’s preparing to adopt cloud strategies. 

NTT Data, IT Architect will speak about a recent project with a large beverage company in Japan.  In this project they are migrating Enterprise mission critical applications to OpenStack private cloud infrastructure.  In this story you will hear about their journey from selection to deployment for this project using IBM Cloud Orchestrator.  Successes, challenges, and lesson learned will be discussed.

We're delighted to feature key OpenStack technical and business leaders in this panel discussion as they explore the vast space that is OpenStack. Angel Diaz, IBM VP of Cloud Architecture and Technology will host Jesse Proudman , CTO of Blue Box an IBM Company, Moe Abdula, IBM VP of Cloud Foundational Services, and Monty Taylor, Director of OpenStack Innovation as they gaze in to their crystal ball and share with you their insights in to the future of OpenStack.  Angel will challenge 
them to make some predictions about the future based on their deep technical skills and business experience.  It should make for some compelling conversations.