OpenStack Cinder QOS: A Hands-On Workshop

We all know Cinder offers the awesome ability to create storage volumes, attach them to instances, and use them anyway you wish. The truth is, not all workloads are created equal! With Cinder QOS, OpenStack Administrators can now offer their users Cinder volumes in a variety of performance flavors! In this hands-on lab, participants will… Continue reading OpenStack Cinder QOS: A Hands-On Workshop

Keeping OpenStack storage trendy with Ceph and containers

The conventional approach to deploying applications on OpenStack uses virtual machines (usually KVM) backed by block devices (usually Ceph RBD). As interest increases in container-based application deployment models like Docker, it is worth looking at what alternatives exist for combining compute and storage (both shared and non-shared). Mapping RBD block devices directly to host kernels… Continue reading Keeping OpenStack storage trendy with Ceph and containers

The Road to Enterprise-Ready OpenStack Storage as Service

The OpenStack storage projects continue to mature each cycle exposing more and more Enterprise cloud storage infrastructure functionalities around high availability, security, business continuity, & provisioning, that redefines Enterprise storage to Storage as a service for both production, test & development cloud workloads. This session will provide a deep dive roadmap update for the new… Continue reading The Road to Enterprise-Ready OpenStack Storage as Service

Ask the Experts: Designing Storage for the Enterprise

Ask the Experts: Designing Storage for the Enterprise This all-star panel discussion will focus on the challenges for OpenStack storage and to get direct feedback from users and developers in the audience of their adoption of OpenStack storage. This panel may be recorded as a “Speaking in Tech” podcast which is distributed by Europe’s largest… Continue reading Ask the Experts: Designing Storage for the Enterprise

Accelerating OpenStack Deployments with Enterprise Storage

Growth in open solutions such as OpenStack will outpace the traditional Compute and Storage segments and be the predominant driver for growth in the coming years. Accelerating this growth will require a diverse set of storage solutions as deployments migrate from POC to Production and into an Enterprise Data Center. This discussion will explore the… Continue reading Accelerating OpenStack Deployments with Enterprise Storage

Addressing storage management challenges using open source SDS controller

Cost pressures, explosive data growth and cloud workloads are driving the need for fundamental shift in how storage resources are being managed in the private cloud. In this session we present open Software Defined Storage (SDS) controller framework augmenting the OpenStack storage services (i.e., Cinder, Manila, Swift) to address storage management challenges and demonstrate an… Continue reading Addressing storage management challenges using open source SDS controller