If this rambles, I apologize. What follows next, are my impressions, thoughts, and notes from Day 1 of the November 2013 Design Summit in Hong Kong. Keynotes: The user storys this time around focused on Media, both big and small, along with Concur, the Expense reporting / management company. While not as huge as some
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Note: This is a liveblog. I didn’t proof read / spellcheck etc. An Evaluation of OpenStack Deployment Frameworks Symantec has a diverse set of development needs across product lines, etc. Consolidation of those systems OpenStack and other OSS building blocks Desire to submit patches back to the project, security fixes, etc. Tried 5 different tools,
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Myself and Kevin Jackson will be at the Hong Kong Summit this week and we brought books. Lots of them. Specifically, we will be at the Rackspace Booth every day from 1 – 2PM (or until the books run out) handing out copies of the OpenStack Cookbook and talking OpenStack, Cloud, Rackspace, etc. Come find
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This post here is a quick wrap of the sessions I presented as well as relevant links to the hands on bits: Hands on with OpenStack Cinder & OpenStack Networking Slides Do it yourself https://github.com/bunchc/summit_hands_on If you find an error, have any questions, etc. Drop me a line. PCI-DSS and Practical OpenStack Hardening Slides
Tell you what. I am still so tired after the summit I can barely person properly three days later. So instead of trying to put together all my thoughts, I’ll leave you with some from folks who were thinking clearly: http://robhirschfeld.com/2013/04/03/devops-upgrade-cube/ http://robhirschfeld.com/2013/04/10/openstack-interop/ http://swiftstack.com/blog/2013/04/15/openstack-summit-extending-swift-acls-and-metadata/ http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5594/openstack-havana-design-summit-in-portland-day-4 http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5567/openstack-havana-design-summit-in-portland-day-3 http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5550/openstack-havana-design-summit-in-portland-day-2 http://blog.hendrikvolkmer.de/2013/04/12/there-will-be-no-reliable-cloud-part-3/ (This was pre-summit iirc) If you have any
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Talk about a breakneck week. The sessions are not just packed with people, but also with information. Rather than give you a long bullet list of the keynotes, the folks on the OpenStack blog did a pretty good job summarizing that here. Also, you really need to watch the Troy Toman keynote: I also managed
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In short, I didn’t get to much other than the Keynote(s) today. Was doing some last minute prep for a 4:30p session today (Wednesday). Keynote Summary: Live streaming is available on openstack.org This is the largest summit yet, 1400 folks in attendance. Quite a few last minute, so, logistics on day 1 were a bit
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Quick Summary of Monday at the OpenStack Summit. First, the important things: The conference bag was quite nice, and quite thoughtful. A carry on sized duffel bag. Mostly, this will be filled with t-shirts and non computer things for the trip back home. I got in late, so didn’t get to as many sessions as
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Just prior to shutting down my laptop for the final bit of pre-flight packing, I thought I’d point out a few of the sessions I plan to be at in the coming week at the OpenStack summit: Monday: Real-time Node Monitoring Hybrid Clouds w/ Cloud Foundry Quantum API Improvements Incremental Imaging / Database in the
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