This session will pick up where we left off in Paris. The ecosystem is changing and growing rapidly around OpenStack. If you saw the session in Paris or if you are new to the OpenStack community this refresh, will help to take you through the OpenStack ecosystem. If you take one look at the OpenStack… Continue reading Navigating the OpenStack Ecosystem with updates for Kilo Release
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Bare metal management – Beyond Ironic
Bare metal management is important to modern operational excellence. The MAAS project lead by Canonical has become the standard in Facebook’s Open Compute Project for large scale machine validation and provisioning, and has also been adopted in the Chef community. MAAS installs Windows, CentOS, Ubuntu or other operating systems blindingly quickly and provides a general… Continue reading Bare metal management – Beyond Ironic
OpenStack in the Enterprise
Enterprise requires complex solutions with existing infrastructure, vendors, High Availability, Scalability and Interoperability across multiple complex environments. Business drives the need to achieve operational efficiency, customer focus, scale and competitiveness. The challenge for enterprise is to deliver this in a bi-modal environment: evolving from traditional networks to supporting policy based “anything as a se…Full session… Continue reading OpenStack in the Enterprise
Stratoscale: Hyper-converging OpenStack: compute, storage and networking
Panel: How To Select an OpenStack Distribution That’s Right For You
OpenStack distributions seem to be all the rage these days. At last count, the number of Icehouse and Juno based distributions were in the double digits. OpenStack distributions are gaining preference in the market because they provide pre-packaged OpenStack installers and automation, add reference architectures to simplify the infrastructure choices, and add enterprise class support… Continue reading Panel: How To Select an OpenStack Distribution That’s Right For You
Monitoring your OpenStack Swift cluster health
Monitoring your Swift cluster health OpenStack Swift is an object storage solution with a focus on availability, even if parts of the cluster are not accessible. There are a bunch of mechanisms inside Swift to protect stored data and ensure a high availability. However, this comes not for free. Swift itself assumes that there will… Continue reading Monitoring your OpenStack Swift cluster health
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