May 2013
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OpenStack Rocks in Poland
Join the 1st OpenStack User Group Meetup in Szczecin (Poland) 06-06-2013, Technopark Pomerania, Niemierzynska 17a (3rd Floor, room 301), Szczecin, Poland: with Boris Renski (Mirantis), Tim Bell (CERN), Eric Windisch (Cloudscaling) & Atul Jha (OpenStack India) We are excited to announce our first OpenStack Meetup in Szczecin (Poland) on June 6th 2013, 5.00 pm CEST (GMT + 2 hrs) at...
May 17th
April 2013
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OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 9 with...
Learn firsthand about OpenStack, its challenges and opportunities, market adoption and SUSE’s engagement in the community - from Alan Clark, Chairman of the Open Stack Board and Director of Industry Initiatives, Emerging Standards and Open Source at SUSE. My goal is to interview all 24 members of the OpenStack board, and I will post these talks sequentially at Dell TechCenter. In order to make...
Apr 11th
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OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 8 with...
Learn firsthand about OpenStack, its challenges and opportunities, market adoption and Cisco’s engagement in the community. My goal is to interview all 24 members of the OpenStack board, and I will post these talks sequentially at Dell TechCenter. In order to make these interviews easier to read, I structured them into my (subjectively) most important takeaways. Enjoy reading! #1 Takeaway:...
Apr 10th
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Interview with Cloudscaling’s Eric Windisch on the...
Cloudscaling just recently launched an engineering blog named Simplicity Scales: “This blog is about Cloudscaling’s engineers, engineering culture, and perspective on building elastic infrastructure clouds that don’t suck.” (Randy Bias, Cloudscaling). Below an overview over the first posts at the Simplicity Scales blog: Announcing the Python3 Compatibility Team Service Resiliency Doesn’t Always...
Apr 5th
March 2013
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Why OpenStack Matters
Over the last few months I did a series of interview with OpenStack board members, representing various types of organizations. Hence, allow me to share my key takeaways from those interviews: Why does OpenStack matter? OpenStack matters, because: Enterprises want Amazon and VMware alternatives “There was a lot of pressure in the market to have an alternative ecosystem to Amazon as a public...
Mar 28th
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Chef 11: Interview with Lucas Welch, Director of...
Can you explain briefly what Chef is? Opscode Chef is an open-source systems integration framework built specifically for automating at scale. Using Ruby-based ‘recipes’ and ‘cookbooks’ of code commands, Chef makes it easy to deploy servers and scale applications throughout an entire infrastructure. Through a combination of configuration management and service-oriented...
Mar 12th
February 2013
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Q&A with Lucas Welch Senior Communications Manager...
You recently made a couple of announcements. Can you tell us in a nutshell: What’s cooking at Opscode? It’s been a big week here at Opscode. On Monday, 2/4, we announced the next generation of our open source automation platform, Chef 11, rewritten from the ground-up in the Erlang programming language and now using the PostreSQL database, delivering massive scale improvements – you can...
Feb 8th
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OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 7 with...
Learn firsthand about OpenStack, its challenges and opportunities, market adoption and Piston Cloud Computing’s engagement in the community. My goal is to interview all 24 members of the OpenStack board, and I will post these talks sequentially at Dell TechCenter. In order to make these interviews easier to read, I structured them into my (subjectively) most important takeaways. Enjoy...
Feb 7th
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January 2013
6 posts
OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 6 with...
Learn firsthand about OpenStack, its challenges and opportunities, market adoption and CERN’s engagement in the community. My goal is to interview all 24 members of the OpenStack board, and I will post these talks sequentially at Dell TechCenter. In order to make these interviews easier to read, I structured them into my (subjectively) most important takeaways. Enjoy reading! #1 Takeaway: CERN’s...
Jan 31st
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Q&A with David M. Fishman, VP Marketing on...
Rafael: Can you give us an overview over your trainings? What’s your offering? David: About a year ago, we announced our 2-day Bootcamps for OpenStack program, to get people deep fast on OpenStack. Since then, more than 250 engineers have been trained through our Boot Camps. We offer them in public monthly, so developers and engineers learn about the open source cloud operating system that has...
Jan 25th
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OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 5 with...
Learn firsthand about OpenStack, its challenges and opportunities, market adoption and 99cloud’s engagement in the community. My goal is to interview all 24 members of the OpenStack board (including former members like Ben), and I will post these talks sequentially at Dell TechCenter. In order to make these interviews easier to read, I structured them into my (subjectively) most important...
Jan 24th
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OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 4 with...
Learn firsthand about OpenStack, its challenges and opportunities, market adoption and Rackspace’s engagement in the community. My goal is to interview all 24 members of the OpenStack board, and I will post these talks sequentially at Dell TechCenter. In order to make these interviews easier to read, I structured them into my (subjectively) most important takeaways. Enjoy reading! #1 Takeaway:...
Jan 10th
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Four Weeks, Four Webinars: Dive Deeply into Cloud...
Over the next couple of weeks, Dell’s new OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution partner Inktank will host a series of four webinars providing a step by step walk through the cloud storage capabilities of Ceph. Ceph is ideal for the cloud as it combines object and block storage in one open source solution. We will conduct one webinar per week, starting on January 17th (duration: 60 minutes). As part of...
Jan 9th
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OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 3 with...
Learn firsthand about OpenStack, its challenges and opportunities, market adoption and Cloudscaling’s engagement in the community. My goal is to interview all 24 members of the OpenStack board, and I will post these talks sequentially at Dell TechCenter. In order to make these interviews easier to read, I structured them into my (subjectively) most important takeaways. Enjoy reading! #1 Takeaway:...
Jan 3rd
December 2012
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OpenStack Board of Directors Talks: Episode 2 with...
Learn firsthand about OpenStack, its challenges and opportunities, market adoption and Mirantis’s engagement in the community. My goal is to interview all 24 members of the OpenStack board, and I will post these talks sequentially at Dell TechCenter. In order to make these interviews easier to read, I structured them into my (subjectively) most important takeaways. Enjoy reading! #1 Takeaway:...
Dec 13th
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OpenStack Board of Director Talks: Episode 1 with...
Learn firsthand about OpenStack, its challenges and opportunities, market adoption and Dell’s engagement in the community. My goal is to interview all 24 members of the OpenStack board, and I will post these talks sequentially at Dell TechCenter. In order to make these interviews easier to read, I structured them into my (subjectively) most important takeaways. Enjoy reading! #1 Takeaway: Dell’s...
Dec 6th