Detecting targeted cyber attacks in the cloud

These days, we see an increasing number of cyber-attacks affecting both public and private clouds. According to reports by antivirus companies, clouds can be used by botnets as well as by special services or cyber criminals to run targeted attacks with the purpose of collecting sensitive information in enterprise networks or government institutions. Current detection… Continue reading Detecting targeted cyber attacks in the cloud

Dreamhost: DreamCompute and the COCO Stack

OpenStack is a broad, complex project, with many components and countless decisions to make on the path to building a cloud. Come learn from DreamHost’s years of operational experience with OpenStack, and how our DreamCompute public OpenStack cloud helped us discover the best model for building and scaling. The stack of the 90’s was the… Continue reading Dreamhost: DreamCompute and the COCO Stack

Live Migration at HP Public Cloud

Live migration seems like magic – that you can take a running VM and swap its host without the VM or its users really noticing. But in some sense it’s not very “cloudy”. After all why live-migrate your pets if you can just start a new herd of cattle wherever you need them? At HP,… Continue reading Live Migration at HP Public Cloud

Beyond the Horizon: Innovating and Customizing Horizon using AngularJS

Are you looking to customize more than just the logo for your dashboard? Possibly adding content from a new API? Adding status icons to the table? Adding more contextual help text for your users? Improving the slow data load for large tables? This session is for you! Today, Horizon is a Django-based project that provides… Continue reading Beyond the Horizon: Innovating and Customizing Horizon using AngularJS

Pacemaker: OpenStack’s PID 1

My name is David Vossel. I’m a core developer of the Pacemaker project and author of Pacemaker Remote. I want to share our success with scaling the Pacemaker cluster resource manager to meet the requirements necessary automate recovery of OpenStack controller and compute nodes. OpenStack’s architecture consists of a set of distributed components capable of… Continue reading Pacemaker: OpenStack’s PID 1

Moving Enterprise Apps to OpenStack-based Clouds

Complex multi-tier enterprise applications assume reliable hardware and typically have dependencies on underlying operating systems, hardware configurations, and network topologies. The boundary between one application or service and another is often unclear. These traits make many enterprise applications difficult to move entirely to a public cloud.

Deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 on NetApp Storage

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® OpenStack Platform and NetApp clustered Data ONTAP provide the foundation for a modern, supportable, integrated, and scalable hybrid cloud deployment. NetApp storage systems have been pre-integrated, pre-tested, and certified to work with the Red Hat OpenStack Platform to ensure an enterprise-grade hybrid cloud solution based on the OpenStack Juno platform.

Developing the next generation of Containerized applications with libcontainer

One of the great Container advances in 2014 was the advent of Docker. However, many people still don’t realise that Docker itself is really a Container application i.e. a consumer of containers technology rather than a provider of it (the containers currently used by Docker are provided by the Linux Kernel). This confusion comes about… Continue reading Developing the next generation of Containerized applications with libcontainer