OpenStack Enhancements to Support NFV Use Cases

At the last Summit, we presented “Developing OpenStack as a Framework for NFV”. Here, we will present an update covering the structure and operation of the Telco Working Group, its relationship with other OpenStack groups, and industry initiatives such as ETSI-NFV and Open Platform for NFV. We will deep dive on leveraging features to deploy… Continue reading OpenStack Enhancements to Support NFV Use Cases

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.