Building the Enterprise Cloud with Openstack, Docker, Kubernetes, and CoreOS

Openstack, Docker, Kubernetes, and CoreOS can provide a foundation for infrastructure provisioning and application deployment in the enterprise. Openstack as a private cloud IaaS solution, is successfully driving infrastructure automation, and maximizing the utilization of compute, network and storage systems. Enterprises are also starting to use containers to manage their application lifecycle. Containers make applications… Continue reading Building the Enterprise Cloud with Openstack, Docker, Kubernetes, and CoreOS

Public or Private Cloud, Amazon Web Services or OpenStack

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides an easy on-ramp, simple swipe a credit card and you can start building clouds and cloud applications. OpenStack appears more complex: download, install, configure, manage, upgrade. So which do you use and when? In this session you will learn: What’s the difference between public, private, managed and hybrid clouds? Do… Continue reading Public or Private Cloud, Amazon Web Services or OpenStack

Fully Managed OpenStack: The Fastest Path to Production, and the Easiest Way to Evaluate SDNs

Canonical’s “BootStack” offering has set the pace for fully managed OpenStack – we will build and manage an OpenStack on your premises for a low, fixed cost per server. Along the way we have learned a few things about hardware selection, management, openstack operations, and how to evaluate SDN and storage options quickly. We’re here… Continue reading Fully Managed OpenStack: The Fastest Path to Production, and the Easiest Way to Evaluate SDNs

Challenges and advantages of a highly distributed cloud that also heats homes

Cloud&Heat Technologies, formerly known as AoTerra, combines two different businesses. It sells hardware that utilizes the excess heat of computers to provide warm water and heating to the buildings it resides in. The sold clusters run in commercial and residential buildings all across Germany and altogether comprise the Cloud&Heat cloud. On one hand the talk… Continue reading Challenges and advantages of a highly distributed cloud that also heats homes

Powering up eBay OpenStack Cloud – Under the hood

Powering up EBay OpenStack Cloud – Under the hood. Summary: eBay Inc. has one of the largest deployments of Openstack clouds and has been at the forefront of deploying Openstack in several environments that include eBay MarketPlaces and PayPal production, development and QA environments. We address the problems and solution we developed in support…Full session… Continue reading Powering up eBay OpenStack Cloud – Under the hood

Interactive Intelligence Presents Cloud-based Communications as a Service

Interactive Intelligence, global provider of collaboration, communications and customer engagement software services, is deploying OpenStack with PLUMgrid SDN to build their cloud-based CaaS. Join Alex Smelik, Chief Architect of CaaS, for a deep dive on how they were able to accelerate onboarding of customers while streamlining workflow and operations for agility and efficiency.…Full session details… Continue reading Interactive Intelligence Presents Cloud-based Communications as a Service

Private Cloud POC with RHEL OpenStack Platform on FlexPod

Private Cloud POC with RHEL OpenStack Platform on FlexPod Intended audience: OpenStack Summit attendees from organizations interested in developing and deploying OpenStack based solutions internally but lacking the experience, expertise and the infrastructure to get started. Private Cloud POC with RHEL OpenStack Platform on FlexPod Intended audience: OpenStack Summit attendees from organizations interested in developing… Continue reading Private Cloud POC with RHEL OpenStack Platform on FlexPod

OpenStack Multi-Tenant Isolation: Quarantine Your Tenants

This workshop is to cover how to implement Multi-tenant Isolation within your OpenStack cloud. The demand to completely segergate your cloud tenants from a compute and block storage aspect seems to be on the rise. So if you are planning to build a multi-tenant cloud, this is the session you must not miss. Knowing the… Continue reading OpenStack Multi-Tenant Isolation: Quarantine Your Tenants