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

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

Bringing provider networks into OpenStack using L2 gateway

Cloud computing technologies like Neutron have made overlay networking a solution for multi-tenant environments: workloads, themselves virtualized, are interconnected through isolated logical networks that are layered on top of the physical networking. However, in typical data centers, not every machine is virtualized: “bare metal” servers are still common, as they run software that is not… Continue reading Bringing provider networks into OpenStack using L2 gateway

Orchestration across multiple cloud platforms using HEAT

Heat allows the user to set up HOT templates that describe the dependencies and the flow of the infrastructure resources that should be deployed to meet specific use case requirements. The Heat engine understands the order it needs to orchestrate the execution of the flow defined in the template. Apart from Orchestrating the template execution… Continue reading Orchestration across multiple cloud platforms using HEAT

OpenStack A-Z: Planning, building , supporting, operating and expanding your Private Cloud

At Comcast, we thrive on well-designed architecture and engineering solutions. In this panel discussion, we will talk about how to plan, build, support, operate and expand a private cloud within your organization. We will discuss what has worked for us at Comcast and what obstacles and challenges we face. We will talk about the planning… Continue reading OpenStack A-Z: Planning, building , supporting, operating and expanding your Private Cloud

Federating clouds for High Energy Physics

Federating clouds for High Energy Physics High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments, such as those of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN Laboratory, have large demands in storage, compute and networking. Although a large fraction of the resources are provided with high throughput compute clusters, many HEP computing resource providers are transitioning to providing… Continue reading Federating clouds for High Energy Physics