Key industry trends over the past few years include the steady replacement of fixed "desktop" equipment by mobile devices, and the availability of ubiquitous, high speed, inexpensive connectivity. With the imminent deployment of 5G networks, we stand on the threshold of a new and exciting time.
The talk makes the case for a "Connected Cloud", a distributed hybrid cloud, with computing, resources available in a diversity of locations including the data center, the CO, the "IT closet", at the top of the lamp pole, or the set top box. The Connected Cloud provides a mechanism for smart workloads to discover, provision and operate at the most cost, power, and performance effective locations. With the ability to orchestrate bare-metal, virtual machines and containers, OpenStack is well suited to be the platform on which this connected cloud is built and operated.
Attendees will be presented with a reference architecture for a "Connected Cloud", a distributed, hybrid cloud which can enable a new class of applications, where resources can be provisioned and utilized seamlessly; and describes techniques for offering and consuming resources, and deploying a new class of application including AR/VR, ML, capabilities, that are able to operate at a price, power and performance point not possible with today's application architectures.
