Monthly Archives:: July 2011

Some OpenStack Pictures from OSCON

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Here are a few shots of the OpenStack booth at OSCON being supported by our amazing ecosystem partners during a slow time when I could get away from the crowds to take a shot. I also took a picture of the great OpenStack cake from our birthday with the tasty cupcakes.        … Read more »

OpenStack Birthday Videos (continued)

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More participating companies celebrating OpenStack’s first birthday. MemSet 1 Year Birthday OSCON from OpenStack on Vimeo. Cybera OpenStack 1 Year Birthday from OpenStack on Vimeo. Zadara Storage Happy Birthday to OpenStack at OSCON from OpenStack on Vimeo.

Announcing the Gluster Connector for OpenStack

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Update: Greetings! I forgot to add a friendly ‘hello’ the first time. Also, we will submit code to the OpenStack project under the Apache 2 license in the near future. The automated code is not yet available, but for now you can track progress from our resource page. You *can* get the same functionality if… Read more »

OpenStack Birthday Videos

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Over the last few weeks many OpenStack community members have sent me videos celebrating the first birthday of OpenStack. I plan to show these videos at the OpenStack booth at OSCON this week and I also want to share them with the community via this blog. Rather than post all at once, I plan to… Read more »

OSCON Schedule for OpenStack

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For OSCON attendees looking to learn more about the OpenStack community or technology, here are the recommended sessions: Speaking Sessions, Wednesday, July 27 Introduction to OpenStack, Eric Day Wednesday, 1:40 pm http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/19146 Using OpenStack APIs, Present and Future, Mike Mayo Wednesday, 4:10 pm http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/18550 OpenStack Fundamentals Training Part 1, Swift, John Dickinson Wednesday, 4:10 pm… Read more »

Building and Maintaining Image Templates for the Cloud

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As IaaS platforms like OpenStack gain traction in delivering compute and storage resources on demand, we’re seeing telco and enterprise IT customers increasingly focus on “software on demand”. Typically existing software delivery processes are too lengthy to take full advantage of the “instant-on” nature of the cloud. End users need to be able choose and… Read more »

OpenStack Day in London Recap

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On Wednesday we held an OpenStack Day in London — the first for our community in Europe.  It’s very obvious we should have done this much sooner.  We never know how many people to expect at these events, and had planned for 125 or so.  In the end, about 350 people attended.  The catering held… Read more »