10 Minutes OpenStack Upgrades? Done!

You have your cloud running. Now it’s time to upgrade. How to do this with minimal customer impact? At Symantec, we are upgrading our platform every 6 months in order to keep up with OpenStack release schedule. During our last upgrade, we went from Havana to Icehouse with zero downtime on the data plane and… Continue reading 10 Minutes OpenStack Upgrades? Done!

The Road to rolling upgrade of Intel IT private cloud

We started our production from OpenStack Havana while it’s time for Kilo. There will be a new OpenStack release with lots of bugfix and new features every 6 months. It’s really a challenge for Enterprise IT to define its upgrade strategy and perform a successful upgrade. In this session, we will introduce our upgrade strategy… Continue reading The Road to rolling upgrade of Intel IT private cloud

Real World Experiences with Upgrading OpenStack at Time Warner Cable

How much work is it really to upgrade to newer versions of OpenStack? What problems might you run into and what should you tell your customers about it? We’ll talk about our experiences as an operator upgrading services individually and in bulk to both Kilo and Juno. Topics covered will include: * Our testing approach… Continue reading Real World Experiences with Upgrading OpenStack at Time Warner Cable

Infinitely Virtual Upgrades Virtual Servers, Dramatically Boosting Application Performance

2013 International CES As part of its ongoing effort to enable small and midsize businesses to make a smooth, efficient transition to cloud computing, Infinitely Virtual, a leading provider of virtual server cloud computing services, has substantially upgraded its virtual servers, improving both application capacity and overall performance. Effective immediately, Infinitely Virtual has boosted capacity… Continue reading Infinitely Virtual Upgrades Virtual Servers, Dramatically Boosting Application Performance